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brown spots are represented bj a large oblong ovate fulvous 

 patch, in which are situate two black spots centred with blue 

 as in the male. 



Expanse of wings 3f inches. 



Hah. Woodlark Island {Meek). 



Nearest to E. agondas, Boisd., and E. glaucopis^ Stgr. 



Lampides epilectus. 



6 . Upperside resembles L. eclectus, Grose Smith, but on 

 the anterior wings the apex is more broadlj greyish black, 

 and on the posterior wings the blue area is more restricted. 



Underside : scarcely differs from L. eclectus, but on both 

 wings the outer marginal dark area is narrower, the central 

 white area being correspondingly broader. 



$ . Upperside : anterior wings differ from that sex of 

 L. eclectus in having the basal blue area more vivid and 

 extended, and the outer marginal dark area is narrower than 

 in L. eclectus, and more broadly margined interiorly with 

 blue. 



Underside. The outer marginal dark area of the anterior 

 wings is much narrower ; on the posterior wings the inner 

 row of obscure black markings which crosses the disk is 

 situate further apart from the outer row and from the metallic 

 blue lunules which crown the latter. 

 Expanse of wings 1| inch. 



Bah. Fergusson Island {Meek). 



Holochila lamia. 



6 . Upperside resembles H. ahsimilis, Feld., but slightly 

 more violaceous ; the cilia of the posterior wings are crossed 

 with black at the ends of the veins. 



Underside greyish silvery white, with the base of tlie wings 

 pale greenish blue, which on the posterior wings extends over 

 the basal fourth. Anterior wings with a grey line at the 

 end of the cell and three dark grey lines across the disk, the 

 outeiniost being on the margin and the two inner ones being 

 sinuate, with the spaces between rather paler than the rest of 

 the wings ; in the interspaces between the veins near the 

 outer margin is a row of hastate dark grey markings. The 

 posterior wings are likewise crossed by three dark grey lines, 

 with the interspaces paler than the basal portion of the wings ; 

 the outer line on the margin very narrow, the middle line 

 very deeply indented inwardly, and the third line very 

 sinuate; between the two outer lines is a row of spots re- 

 sembling an inverted T; there is a fourth irregular line 



