314 Col. C. Switilioe on 



dark brown : hind wing oclireous grey, outer marginal line 

 brown; cilia whitish, with brown tips: palpi brown; body 

 concolorous with the wings. Underside uniform pale ochreous 

 brown ; hinder niarp;in;vl space of fore wing pale, an out- 

 wardly curved brown line like a half-circle from the costa 

 before the apex, and an outwardly curved discal line on the 

 hind wing. 



Expanse of wings, (^, Ij-n- inch. 



Hab. Gilolo Isl., North Moluccas (Do/ierti/). 



XXXI. — Wew Lyccenids and Hesperids and Tioo neio Species 

 of the Noctuid Family Acontiidse. By Colonel C. 

 ISwiNHOE, M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



Family Lycsenidae. 



Lyccenopsis trita, nov. 



(J . Upperside cerulean-blue, similar in colour to L. ladon- 

 idesj de I'Orza*, which it very much resembles; marginal 

 lines of both wings black ; cilia white. Underside cream- 

 white, with a few blue irrorations at the base of both wings 

 and along the abdominal margin of the hind wing: fore 

 wing with a pale brown luuule closing the cell; five discal 

 linear brown marks, four in a line, the upper one subcostal 

 and well inwards ; a double series of })ale brown marks on 

 the outer margin, the inner series lunular, the outer composed 

 of triangular spots : hind, wing with the outer margin 

 similarly marked ; a pale brown line closing the cell, a 

 black spot on vein 6 near the base, and one below it in the 

 cell, near the origin of vein 2 ; a subcostal black spot near 

 the apex of the wing ; a curved series of black spots in inter- 

 spaces 4, 3, 2, and 1, two close together and well outwards in 

 the interiio-mediau interspace, and three black spots on the 

 abdominal margin. Antennae black with white rings ; head 

 and body above blue-black, white on the underside, liead 

 with black and white stripes ; eyes ringed with white; palpi 



♦ Lep. Japan, p. 20 (1869). 



