1892.] THE LYCJBNID^ OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC. 443 



are only J. woodfordi subjected to the action of damp. They are 

 dark bluish bronze and have a very distinct appearance, and for the 

 present I think it better to keep them separate. There are no speci- 

 mens in any other collection that I have seen which are anything 

 like them. 



Jamides kava, sp. n. (Plate XXVII. fig. 15.) 



S . Brilliant morpho blue ; general appearance of typical 

 J. woodfordi, but hind wing without bluish-white borders to black 

 spots on outer margin ; colour of J. morphoides. Underside as in 

 J. morphoides. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



New Hebrides (Mathetv). Fiji Is. (Mathew). 



The type in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection and a speci- 

 men in our own from Fiji Islands are identical. This may prove to be 

 a variety of J. morphoides, but a good series of that species from the 

 New Hebrides does not show any variation. 



Jamides carissima. (Plate XXVII. fig. 17.) 



Lampides carissima, Butl. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 615, pi. Ixvii. ff. 3, 4 ; 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xi. p. 417 (1883). 



? Acrop. ? argentina, Pritt. Stett. ent. Zeit. p. 274. no. 32 (1867). 



Erromango I., New Hebrides {Butl.). Espiritu Santo I., Pentecost 

 I., New Hebrides {Woodford). New Hebrides {Mathew). Tonga Is., 

 Fiji Is. {Mathew). Samoa Is. {B. M.). Tongatabu (' Challenger' 

 Exped.). 



A good series of specimens not varying to any appreciable extent, 

 and distinguished at once from J. woodfordi by their much darker 

 and richer blue. Lampides { = Jamides) phaseli, Mathew (the types 

 of which are now in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection), from 

 the Claremont Islands, and which we have also from N. Australia, is 

 allied to this species, but is much more plumbeous on the upperside 

 and on the underside the white lines appear much more distinct. Mr. 

 Miskin, in the Annals of the Queensland Museum, no. 1, p. 59(1891), 

 places this species in the genus Lycesnesthes, which is certainly an 

 error, as its hind wing possessing one tail only immediately shows. It 

 will be observed that in the same paper Mr. Miskin places 17 species 

 in Lampides, referred to " Hiibn., Moore, Dist., and De Niceville," 

 but none of these authors use this name for any of the species he 

 places under it. 



It is, I think, possible that the insect described by von Prittwitz 

 may prove to be the same as Mr. Butler's J. carissima, but without 

 examining the type I fear it is impossible to be certain. 



Jamides walkeri, sp. n. (Plate XXVII. figs. 13, 14.) 



S . Allied to J. carissima, but slightly darker blue and with the 

 borders blacker, more distinct, even, and not widening out at the 

 apex as in that species. Underside rather greyer and the white lines 

 less distinct. 



$ . Close to J. carissima, $ , but less blue on the disks and the 



