436 MR. H. H. DRUCE ON [May 17, 



and Pentecost I., New Hebrides {Woodford). Sandwich I. and 

 Erromango I., New Hebrides^ Fiji Is. {Mathew). Suva, Viti 

 Levu, Fiji Is. (Woodford). Mango, Fiji Is.^ Tonga Is. and Samoa 

 Is. (Mathew). Upolu I., Samoa Is. (Herr.-Schdff.). Tutuila I., 

 Samoa Is. (Butler). New Caledonia''. Australia. 



I have carefully examined two specimens in the British Museum 

 which were received from the Godeffroy Museum — one of which, a 

 male, is labelled L. communis, the other, a female, L. alsulus — and I 

 am quite satisfied that, as pointed out by Mr. Butler (P. Z. S. 18/5, 

 p. G16), they represent the same species, as does also L. phoebe, 

 Murray. Lyccena mangoensis, Butl., is nothing but a rather more 

 strongly marked form, and we have in our collection specimens trom 

 Fiji Islands quite as typical L. alsulus. Lyccena caduca, Butl., again 

 is, in my opinion, a variety, as although I have, in the large series 

 before me, no specimen agreeing exactly with the type, there are 

 several verj- close to it. 



Mr. Miskin has lately pointed out that labradus is the oldest 

 name for this species (Ann. Queensland Museum, no. 1, p. 62, 

 1891), and is doubtless quite correct in so identifying it. 



ZlZERA GAIKA. 



Lyccena gaika, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1862, p. 403. 



Lyccena 'pygmcea, Snell. Tijds. Ent. xix. t. 7. f. 3 (1876). 



Pentecost I., MallicoUo I., New Hebrides (Woodford). New 

 Hebrides (Mathew). 



So far as I am able to ascertain, this insect does not occur east- 

 wards from the New Hebrides. 



ZizERA LULU. (Plate XXVII. fig. 2.) 



Lyccena lulu, Mathew, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 312 (1889). 



Lyccena conjungens, Lucas, T. P., P. R. S. Queensl. p. 160, flf. 11 

 & 12 (1889), i;i(?e Miskin. 



New Hebrides (Mathew). Tonga Is. (Mathew) (types, Ton- 

 gatabu I.). Fiji Is. (Mathew). Samoa Is. (Mathew). 



If I had not seen the specimen in the British Museum before 

 referred to, I should have considered Herrich-SchafFer's description 

 of L. alsulus to have referred to this species, as he speaks of the 

 underside being without markings, save a few angular marks. 



In the large series before me, I can detect no variation but the 

 absence or presence of the black anal-angular spot on the underside 

 of secondaries. 



Mr. Mathew's types are now in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's 

 collection. 



Talicada, Moore. 



T. cleotas and T. excellens are distinguished at once from their 

 congeners T. nyseus, T. mindora, and T. arruana by having a dis- 

 tinct spot in the centre of the cell of the fore wing below, also by the 

 darker ground-colour of both wings. The genus has not yet been 



