548 MESSES. H. H. DRUCE AND G. T. BETHUNE-BAKER ON [Juiie 20, 



margin of hind wings inwardly more evenly defined and the 

 marginal blue lunules much less distinct ; a broken metallic blue 

 line running along the black outer marginal border ol: fore wing 

 from apex to outer angle. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish brown. Antennas black 

 above, white-spotted beneath. 



Expanse 1-^- inch. 



Uah. 'New' lve\&nA. {Broivn) {Mus. G.SfS.). 



The type specimen in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection is 

 the only one we have seen. It is distinguished from all others by 

 the blue line on underside of fore wing. 



Thtsonotis ccelitts. 



Thysonotis coelius, Feld. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 245 (1860) \ 



Lijccena coelius, Feld. Eeise Nov., Lep. ii. p. 265, t. 33. £E. 11, 12 

 (1865). 



Cupido corUus, Kirby, Cat. Diur. Lep. p. 347 (1S71) ; Oberthiir, 

 Ann. Mus. Genova, xv. p. 523 (1880)^; Kirsch, Beitr. Lep.-Faun. 

 von Neu-Guinea, p. 127 (1877). 



Hab. Aru Is. ' ; Dorey; Port Moresby, New Guinea; Sula Is. 

 (Wallace) (Mus. G. ^- S.j; Gilolo'; Mysol (B. M.) ; Kaiser Wil- 

 helm's Land, New Guinea (Eicliom) (Mus. Stand.). 



We have not seen the female of this species, but specimens have 

 been received by M. Oberthiir from Gilolo. 



Thysonotis eudocia, sp. n. (Plate XLVI. fig. 4.) 



cJ . Allied to T. coelius. Upperside duller blue ; fore wing with 

 the outer margin rather more broadly bordered with brown ; hind 

 wing with the costal margin greyish brown, not white as in T. 

 coelius. The border to the outer margin and anal angle twice as 

 broad. Underside with all the borders, especially that on the 

 costa of fore wing, considerably broader and the blue metallic 

 streaks and lunules very much decreased. A distinct light yellow 

 streak stretching along the costal nervure at the base of the fore 

 wing. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs as in T. coelius. Antennas black 

 above, spotted with white below. Cilia of both surfaces brown. 



Expanse l-^-lf inch. 



Hab. Batchian ( Wallace, Mus. G. ^ S.) ; (Platen, Mus. Staud- 

 inc/er) ; (Doherty, Mus. Bruce, type). 



Although there is before us a good series of this species there is 

 not a single female amongst them. We have compared it to 

 T. coelius, but it is perhaps nearer to the next species, T. piepersii, 

 Sn., as possessing the yellow basal streak on underside of fore 

 wing. Its position is intermediate between the two. 



Thysonotis piepersii. (Plate XLVI. fig. 9.) 



Cupido piepersii, Snellen, Tijds. Entom. xxi. p. 16, pi. 1. f. 3 

 (1878). 



5 . Upperside dull blackish brown, with an Indistinctly defined 



