14 DIUKNAL LEPIDOPTEEA. 



Posterior wing with a small black spot near the base, and two black spots near the tails 

 bordered above with orange. 



Exp. 1-jly inch. 



In the Collection of Mr. George Semper, from the Philippines. 



21. Hypolycaena Eltola, Hewitson. Plate V. 5 figs. 37, 38. 



Upperside. Female. — Rufous-brown paler towards the anal angle of the posterior wing. 

 Posterior wing with two tails and some submarginal brown spots and a line of white below 

 them. 



Underside white tinted with lilac near the base. Both wings with a submarginal rufous 

 line. Anterior wing with a line at the end of the cell : a short band beyond the middle from 

 the costal margin, a line below it and the apex rufous. Posterior wing with a rufous broken 

 band at the middle commencing near the costal margin in a black spot : the lobe and a spot 

 outside the tails black bordered above with orange-yellow : the space between them irrorated 

 with silver. 



Exp. -,% inch. 



In the Collection of Mr. W. S. Atkinson, from the Andaman Islands. 



22. Hypolycaena Zela, Hewitson. Plate V. figs. 6 43, 5 41, 42. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown-blue, with the margins brown. Posterior wing with 

 one tail and a submarginal line of pale blue. 



Underside grey-brown. Both wings with two lines at the end of the cell, and a 

 linear band of brown spots beyond the middle bordered outwardly with white : both with a 

 submarginal brown band of lunular spots near the anal angle of the posterior wing. Posterior 

 wing with the lobe black crowned with silver and with a silvery white spot above it : the spot 

 near the tail black crowned with scarlet : the space between them irrorated with silver. 



Female rufous-brown: like the male on the underside, except that it is 

 much paler and that the bands in consequence are better seen. 



Exp. l^j inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Sherborough Island. 



Most nearly allied to H. Erylus. 



23. Hypolycaena Astyla. 



Hypolyctena Astyla, Felder, Novara Expedition, pi. 30. c? f- 1", 18, p. 243. 



Female like the male, except that it has more white on both wings, a large 

 black spot at the end of the cell of the anterior wing, and a linear black spot at the end of the 

 cell of the posterior wing. One example in my collection has the base of both wings brilliant 

 blue. 



