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borders dull black, not brownish black as in that species. Underside 

 as male. 



Hind wings without linear tails. 



Expanse, d 1-1 4-, $ i^^-li inch. 



Aitutaki I. {J. J. Walker). Rarotonga I. ( Walker ^ Mathew). 

 Cook Is. 



Although a species of Nacaduba (ardates) is known to have 

 tailed and tailless forms, I think it is impossible to consider this 

 insect the same as J. carissima, as they do not occur together. The 

 other distinctions, though shght, seem constant. There are two pairs, 

 including the types, in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection, and 

 one in our own. This is the only species in the genus without the 

 usual tail. The species is also in the British Museum. 



Lampides, Hiibn. 



Lampides evanescens. 



Lampides evanescens, Butl. P. Z. S. 1875, p. G15. 



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



This is a common insect in the New Hebrides, -and also in the 

 Solomon Islands, but I have not seen it or any representative of the 

 genus from any of the islands further eastward. 



Catochrysops, Boisd. 

 Catochrysops cnejus. 



Hesperia cnejus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. p. 430 (1798). 



Lyccena samoa, Herr.-Schaff. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1869, p. 73. n. 30 



Gatochryso'ps patala, Butl. (nee KoUar) Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 ser. 5, vol. xiii. p. 346 (1884)\ 



New Hebrides {Mathew). Erromango I., New Hebrides*. Suva, 

 Viti Levu I., and Mango I., Fiji Is. ( Woodford). Levuka, Ovalau I., 

 Fiji Is. {Mus. D.). 



Two females in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection from New 

 Hebrides have the hind wings on the upperside greyish white, 

 excepting the costal margin, which is light brown. 



Catochrysops platissa. 



Lyccena platissa, Herr.-SchafF. Stett. ent. Zeit. vol. xxx. p. 74, 

 pi. iv. f. 20, 5 (1869). 



Lyccena kandarpa^ var. caledonica, Feld. Verb, zool.-bot, Ges. xii. 

 p. 495(1862). 



MalUcollo 1., New Hebrides {Woodford ^ Mathew). N. Cale- 

 donia. Rotumah I. {Mathew). Levuka, Ovalau I., Fiji Is. (Mus. D.). 

 Samoa Is. {Mathew) {Mus. G. ^ S.). 



I am still of the opinion that the species inhabiting these islands 

 should be separated from C. strabo, Fabr., but not having seen 

 Herrich-Schaffer's type it is impossible to say whether the insects 

 before me represent his species. Felder's Lye. kandarpa, var. cale- 

 donica, from New Caledonia is an older name for the same insect. 



