150 Mr. A. G. Butler on 
New Britain. 
Allied to (. celebensis. 
20. Holochila regina, sp. n. 
Near to H. intensa: the male of the same brilliant cobalt- 
blue, but with the external black border of primaries of only 
two thirds the width at apex; the female also very similar to 
that sex of H. intensa, but with the white spot more com- 
pletely concealed by a bright silvery blue shot, so that in 
some lights it is quite confluent with the interno-median 
patch of silvery blue. Expanse of wings, ¢ 30 millim., ? 
29 millim. 
Duke-of-York Island. 
We have males of this species from New Guinea. 
21. Miletus scintillans, sp. n. 
3d. Allied to M. anacletus, but the wings above of a shi- 
ning greenish cobalt-blue (instead of ultramarine), and with 
the black apical area of primaries slightly narrower; on the 
under surface the submarginal metallic spots are slightly 
pink, like tarnished stlver, instead of golden green ; all the 
other metallic markings are more golden than in MW. ana- 
_ Cletus; there is asmall pale blue spot at the end of the cell of 
primaries, and below and beyond it are reddish-orange spots, 
the oblique subapical band is reddish orange instead of ochre- 
yellow; the red bands of secondaries are darker, the first 
being preceded by a short orange dash, the second decidedly 
straighter than in IZ. anacletus, the third entirely different in 
shape, nearly straight from the second subcostal to the first 
median branch, where it is interrupted and V-shaped to the 
abdominal margin ; the submarginal band inside the metallic 
spots orange instead of ochre-yellow ; external border buff. 
Expanse of wings 36 millim. 
New Britain. 
The blue colouring of this beautiful species is more like 
that of MW. epicletus than MW. anacletus; but the pattern of the 
under surface more nearly approaches that of the latter 
species. In both the colouring above and some of the under- 
surface characters it approaches the Fabrician type of JZ. nar- 
cissus, which leads off from it in the direction of IZ. pythias. 
22. Lampides astarte, sp. n. « 
9. Above grey. The wings with vivid sky-blue reflec- 
tions; markings much like those of Lyccenesthes larydas, 
Hew. (nec Cramer)* ; the primaries with rather a broad ex- 
* Cramev’s figure is not at all like Hewitson’s insect on either surface. 
I am somewhat doubtful as to whether it is even a Lycenesthes. 
