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Under-side : anterior-wings, basal half palo brown, shading into a bright 

 chestnut-brown transverse line a little beyond the middle, followed by a pale 

 yellowish-brown space shading outwardly to dusky brown, in which are two large 

 black ocelli (thelower the larger), centred with white, surrounded with a bright brown 

 ring margined with dark brown, the space beyond to the outer margin tawny, edged 

 internally with a sinuate dark brown line, a similar submarginal line. Posterior- 

 wings : basal half bluish-brown, shading into a bright chestnut-brown band a little 

 beyond the middle ; the space beyond greyish-blue, shading outwardly to dusky 

 brown, in which are situate five ocelli, similar to those on anterior-wings, the first 

 and fourth the largest, the second the smallest, the third and fifth about the same 



size ; the space beyond tawny, with two submarginal lines as in anterior-wings. 



Exp., 2 in. 

 Hah. : Rubiana Lagoon. 



Nearest to Messene, Hew., and Sara, Mathew, but wings rather 

 narrower. 



Amblypodia Sophrosyne. 



<J . Upper-side : brilliant metallic azure-blue, shading along the costa of 

 anterior, and the apes and outer-margins (which are black) of both wings, to 

 ultramarine ; costal area of posterior- wings brownish-black ; abdominal fold 

 greyish-brown. 



Under-side : basal half of anterior- wings, a dark blotch beyond the cell, a rather 

 oblique band of confluent spots, and a rather broad marginal band, dark olivaceous- 

 brown, the rest of the wings very pale olivaceous-brown ; two small silvery spots in 

 the cell near the base, an oval silvery spot centred with brown near the end of the 

 cell, an irregular whitish-brown line at the end of the cell, an indistinct reniform 

 dusky marking below the cell. Posterior-wings ; dark olivaceous-brown ; a pale 

 olivaceous-brown band from the apex, where it is rather broad, gradually narrowing 

 down to the second median nervule ; several pale olivaceous spots and markings near 

 the base and accross the middle ; a narrow, submarginal, silvery-blue line above the 

 tails, and thence to the anal angle, above which is a broad black band irregularly 

 dentate inwardly, and intersected by an interrupted, irregular row of metallio blue 

 markings. 



? . Upper-side : resembles the male, but darker ; on the anterior-wings the 

 costal, apical, and outer margins are broadly black, as well as the costal and apical 

 portion of posterior-wings. 



Under-side : same as the male, but paler. Exp., 2 in. 



Hah. : Guadalcanal 



Nearest to JExone, Hew. The colouring of the male on the 

 upper-side resembles Sophax, Mathew, which is a smaller insect ; the 

 under-sides are very different. 



Thecla Alcestis. 



$ . Upper-side : pale silvery-blue. Anterior-wings, costal margin, and apex 



rather broadly, and outer margin rather narrowly, greyish-black. Posterior-wings : 



with a broad, submarginal band of greyish-black spots crowned with white lunular 



markings, above which is a row of indistinct grey markings, the middle spot nearly 



