446 ON THE LYC^NiDyE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC. [May 17, 



here for the first time from these islands. The species must either 

 be very rare or very local, or we should have seen specimens before 

 this. 



Detjdorix mathewi, sp. n. (Plate XXVII. fig. 9.) 



5 , Upperside. Fore wing rich dark brown, darker in the cell, 

 with a confined disk of brownish orange; hind wing a uniform cupreous 

 olivaceous brown, lobe with a black centre bordered inwardly with 

 orange-red, outwardly with a few metallic-blue scales. 



Underside pale ashen grey, with rather darker white-bordered bands 

 arranged much as in D. epijarbas, Moore, but that on the fore wing 

 extending nearer to the inner margin, and those on the hind wing being 

 more compact and placed altogether nearer to the base. The black 

 spot between the lower median nervules broadly bordered inwardly 

 with light metallic blue ; a large metallic-blue patch between this 

 spot and the lobe and a metallic-blue line along the anal margin as 

 in D. epijarbas. 



Head whitish ; thorax above greenish -, below, together with legs, 

 concolorous with wings. Abdomen pale buff below, greyish brown 

 above. Cilia of fore wing above and below yellowish brown ; of 

 hind wing paler white towards anal angle. Antennae black, spotted 

 with white and tipped with red. Palpi whitish, tipped with black. 

 Tail black, lower edge and tip white ; half as long as in D. epijarbas, 

 or any other true Deudorix, and considerably broader. 



Expanse 1 ^^^ inch. 



New Hebrides {G. F. Mathew) {Mus. G. Sf S.). 



Mr. Mathew only obtained one specimen of this interesting species, 

 a female, and, judging from its bright coloration, the male should turn 

 out to be an insect of exceptional brilliancy. It is quite distinct from 

 every other species of the group. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVII. 



Fig. L Zizera labradus, Godt., S, p. 435. 



2. „ ^2fZw, Mathew, cJ, p. 436. 



3. Nacaduha vitiensis, Butl., c?, p. 437. 



4. „ „ „ $,p.437. 



5. „ suTnoensis, BTp.n., (5", p. 437. 



6. „ .„ „ $,p.437. 



7. „ nova-hebridensis, sp. n., c?, p. 438. 

 8- „ „ „ „ ?,p. 438. 

 9. Deudorix mathewi, sp n., 5 , p. 446. 



'.,10. Nacadiiba ncbulosa, sp. n., (^ , p. 440. 

 'IIL „ „ „ 5, p. 440. 



12. „ ^onratZa, Butl., $, p. 438. 



13. Jamides wal&eri, sp. n., c?, p- 443. 



14. „ „ „ $,p. 443. 



15. ,, ^ava, sp. n., cJ , p. 443. 



16. „ pulcherri7na, Bnii., (5, p. 442. 



17. „ camsma, Butl., c5", p. 443. 



18. Nacaduba mallicollo, sp. n., $, p. 439. 



