1892.] the lyc^nid^ of the south pacific. 441 



Thysonotis caledonica. 



LyccBna caledonica, Feld. Reise Nov., Lep. ii. p. 267, t. 33. f. 7 

 (1865). 



New Caledonia {Feld.) {Mus. D.). 



Mr. Kirby, in his catalogue (p. 346), places T. caledonica as a 

 synonym of T. scliaeffera, but the whole upperside of the male, with 

 the exception of the anal angle of hind wings, is of a rich dark blue, 

 in that respect resembling T. cepheis from the Solomon Islands, but 

 darker. The underside of hind wing is a most brilliant rich dark gold. 



The uppersides of the females of T. schaeffera, T. cepheis, and 

 T. caledonica are practically all the same. 



J AMIDES, Hiibn. 



The species of this genus from the South Sea Islands have been 

 supposed to occur only in their typical localities, but the numbers 

 obtained by Mr. Mathew and Mr. Woodford prove that this is not 

 the case — J. woodfordi having been received from Fiji, the New 

 Hebrides, and Tonga Islands. 



All the species are very nearly alike on the undersides, but 

 although I have before me a good series of most of the species I am 

 unable to say that the colours merge one into another. 



Jamides candrena. 



Lyccena candrena, Herr.-Schaff. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1869, p. 74. 



Lampides candrena, Butl. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 285. 



Viti Levu I., Ovalau I., Vanua Valava I., Fiji Is. {Herr.-Schciff.). 



The only specimen I have seen is one in the British Museum 

 which Mr. Butler informs me was sent by Herrich-Schaffer under 

 his name. The wings appear to be exactly the same shade of blue 

 as in /. pulchei'rima, but the spots on the hind margin of secondaries 

 seem to be absent, and the blue extends to the apex of the wing. 



Judging from Herrich-Schaffer' s description I should have identi- 

 fied the insect which stands under the name J. ivoodfordi as his 

 species, because, first, he states thatitisnear L. kankena, Feld., which, 

 according to Dr. Felder, is similar to his L. nemea in the coloration 

 of the upperside, and, secondly, no black borders are mentioned in 

 the male ; now in the series of J. woodfordi before me several speci- 

 mens have the borders so narrow as to be almost imperceptible, and 

 until some one is able to compare the museum example with the 

 actual type it is impossible to be certain what J. candrena really is. 



Mr. Miskin, Ann. Queensland Museum, no. 1, p. 51 (1891), states 

 that L. candrena is a synonym of L. {=Jamides) astraptes, Feld., and 

 on p. 54 gives N. Hebrides as a locality for L. bochus, Cr. There are 

 specimens in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection of tT^. astraptes 

 from Amboina, Ceram, and Philippine Islands ; all these have the costal 

 portion of the hind wings of a lighter and more shining blue than the 

 rest of the wings, in that respect differing from all the island forms 

 noted in this paper and resembling the Indian L. bochus, from which 

 they principally differ in having narrower black apical borders. 



