616 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Nov. 16, 
orange zone: expanse of wings, ¢ 1 inch 2 to 4 lines, ? 1 inch to 
1 inch 4 lines. 
Erromango, New Hebrides, May 10th, 1875. 
The white bands on the under surface of secondaries are not sepa- 
rated at such equal distances as in L. elianus. 
. LAMPIDES ARGENTINA 9, Prittwitz. 
7 New Hebrides, 23rd April, 1875. 
A rare species, of which we previously only possessed the male. 
28. LAMpIDES PERASIA 6, Q@, Felder. 
Tanna, New Hebrides, 23rd April, 1875 
29. Lycana poa@se, Murray. 
Vaté or Sandwich Island, New Hebrides, 28th April, 1875; 
Erromango, New Hebrides, May 1875. 
The undescribed L. communis of Herrich-Schaffer is this species, 
of which I believe his Z. alsulus to be only a dark female. We 
obtained most of his South-Sea Lycenide from the Godeffroy 
Museum. 
30. Lyc#NA CADUCA, 0. sp. 
Wings above lilac, primaries with the costa, apex, and outer margin 
broadly dusky ; secondaries with the costal half and outer margin 
dusky ; a submarginal series of blackish dots, margined internally by 
sordid white lunules: body grey; antennz black, annulated with 
white: wings below pale grey, fringes long, tipped with grey ; 
primaries with a spot at end of cell, a discal transverse series of six 
spots, and a submarginal series bounded internally by a connected 
series of lunules, all dusky brownish, edged with white ; secondaries 
with a spot at end of cell surrounded by an irregular double series of 
spots, and a submarginal series bounded by lunules internally, all 
coloured as in primaries ; body below white: expanse of wings 9 to 
10 lines. 
Erromango, New Hebrides, May 1875. 
This is one of the smallest of the blues ; it seems most nearly to 
approach the L.-/knysna group. 
31. SCOLITANTIDES EXCELLENS,n.sp. (Plate LXVII. figs. 1, 2). 
Allied to S. cleotas, but differing in the male having the purple 
colour spread over the primaries and the centre of secondaries, in the 
absence of a black spot at end of discoidal cell, the black veins, and 
the smaller orange patch on the seccndaries. 
3. Above shining dull violet, veins black; primaries with the 
outer margin narrowly greyish black; secondaries with the costal 
area grey, outer margin narrowly black, preceded on discoidal median 
and interno-median interspaces by a sinuated quadrifid orange 
patch ; abdominal margin grey; body blackish, abdomen with 
whitish margins to the segments; antennee black, annulated with 
white : eyes with a white zone ; palpi white below : wings below grey, 
