1875.] FROM THE NEW HEBRIDES. 615 
blackish at the extremities ; secondaries with two indistinct black 
subanal spots ; body black : wings below pale grey ; primaries with 
outer margin broadly brown, diffused internally ; a spot at end of 
cell and an irregular transverse discal series grey, outlined with dark 
brown and white; secondaries with a constricted spot at end of cell 
enclosed by a double series of Spots grey, outlined with dark brown 
and white; a discal series of lunules parallel to the margin and en- 
closing a submarginal series of spots, the three nearest to anal angle 
large, black, speckled with metallic steel-coloured scales ; extreme 
margin black, fringe brown, varied with sordid white ; body grey : 
expanse of wings 11 lines. 
Maré, Loyalty group, May 1875. 
I was at first inclined to consider this the female of the preceding 
species ; but the outline bands of the underside do not quite agree, 
and there are three instead of two metallic speckled spots in second- 
aries; these differences, taking the different habitat into consideration 
seem to indicate a distinct species. 
24. Lampipes carissima, n. sp. (Plate LXVII. figs. 4, 5.) 
Allied to L. candrena, @. Bright Morpho-blue, with the outer 
margin narrowly black ; secondaries with two linear subanal black 
spots; abdominal margin brown ; tail black, tipped with white ; 
body blackish grey; collar white behind the eyes ; frons with two 
cream-coloured lines ; palpi white below; antenne black, annulated 
with white below: wings below drab, with whitish-edged bands as 
in L. candrena; secondaries with two subanal black spots, speckled 
with pale metallic-blue scales and bordered above by orange lunules; 
body greyish at the sides, white below: expanse of wings 1 inch 
2 lines. 
2. Above paler blue, with broad blackish grey borders along the 
costee and outer margins; secondaries with a submarginal series of 
blue-edged black spots; abdominal margin brown; body grey, 
thorax bluish, head as in the male ; underside nearly as in the male, 
but paler, all the markings well defined, edged with white : expanse 
of wings 1 inch 12 line. 
Erromango, New Hebrides, May 10th, 1875. 
We have this species in the collection of the British Museum from 
the Navigators’ Islands. 
25. LampipEs cANDRENA, Herrich-Schiiffer, 
Tanna, New Hebrides, 23rd April, 1875. 
This and the preceding are two of the most beautiful of the small 
blue butterflies ; they belong to the L.-democritus group. 
26. LAMPIDES EVANESCENS, n. sp. 
3, 2. Allied to L. elianus, from which it differs in the slightly 
shorter wings and broader black border to primaries above, the more 
distinct marginal spots of secondaries, the greyer tint of the under- 
side, with narrower and somewhat differently arranged transverse 
white bands ; subanal black spots of secondaries smaller, with larger 
