140 Mr. H. H. Druce on new 



XVI. — Descriptions of new Species of Lycaenidse from Borneo 

 and JVeio Guinea. By HAMILTON H. Deuce, F.Z.S., 

 F.E.S. 



Thysonotis hebes, sp. n. 



<j. — Upperside. Allied to T. Piepersii*, from which it 

 differs by its smaller size, by being of a darker and more 

 purple shade of blue, and by 'the outer margins of the fore 

 wing being even more broadly black, especially towards the 

 anal angle. 



Underside differs from that of T. Piepersii by the almost 

 total absence of the yellow basal streak on the costa of the 

 fore wing and the absence of the metallic green borders to 

 the black lunules in the border of the hind wing. There are 

 a few metallic scales at the base of the hind wing and about 

 halfway along the costa from the base. 



Thorax black ; palpi black, clothed with whitish hairs at 

 the base ; abdomen black, ringed with blue scales at each 

 segment ; legs black, with grey scales at joints. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Hob. Upper Aroa River, British New Guinea {Meek, 

 Mus. Druce). 



The two specimens we possess were captured in January 

 and February. 



Candalides pruina, sp. n. 



^ _ — JJpperside. Uniform deep black, with the costal half 

 of the fore wing from the base nearly to the outer margin 

 dark, shining, hoary purple, with the costal margin and the 

 nervules narrowly black, and a central patch of differently 

 placed scales lying principally on the median nervure and on 

 the bases of the median nervules. When held at an angle 

 the black hind wings show a slight olivaceous tinge. The 

 cilia of the fore wing are black, slightly whitish at the angle, 

 as is also the apex of the hind wing, which is again distinctly 

 white along the abdominal margin, widening out to a small 

 white patch at the base of the abdominal fold. 



The underside is marked exactly like that of C. silicea t, 

 but the black spots are slightly fainter and the apex and 

 costa appear very slightly suffused with greyish. 



* Ciipido Piepersii, Snellen, Tijd. Entom. xxi. p. 16, pi. i. fig. 3 (1878). 

 + Holochila silicea, Grose-Smith, Novitates Zoolog. i. p. 580 (1894) ; 

 Rhop. Exot. ii.. Orient. Lye. ix. Holochila, i. figs. 6, 7. 8 (1896). 



