1891.] LYC/ENID.E OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 367 



distinct marginal row of grey-circled lunules, largest at the anal 

 angle ; inner margin light brown. Underside rather dark greyish 

 brown, with indistinct bands and lunules edged with sordid white. 

 Primaries : a band at the end of the cell and beyond that a broad 

 band commencing on the costa, running in semicircular form to the 

 first branch of the median nervure, where it touches the short band 

 at the end of the cell, and then continues nearly to the submedian 

 nervure, where it ends, beyond this a marginal and a submarginal 

 row of faint lunules. Secondaries with three indistinct much-broken 

 macular bands, the first near the base, second rather before the 

 middle, and the third rather beyond, these last two converging into 

 one near the anal margin, beyond these an indistinct submarginal 

 row of crescent-shaped lunules enclosing a marginal row of circular 

 lunules. A large black orange-bordered spot near the anal angle. 



Female similar to male, but without the gloss and of a slightly 

 more bluish tinge and with less green on the costa. Underside as 

 in male, but white rather more prominent. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and short tail greyish brown ; palpi and 

 legs whitish. 



Expanse, S 1|- inch, $ li-]y\pinch. 



Alu I., near Shortland I. Guadalcanar I. Florida I. 



This species may be distinguished from its allies by its pale 

 coloration. There is scarcely any difference between the sexes, 

 except that the male is metallic and the female duller blue. 



Jamides scemias, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. figs. 4 c?, 5 $ .) 



Allied to J. woodfordii, Butl. 



Male. Upperside rich dark shining purple, with the apex of fore 

 wing very narrowly black ; cilia black. Underside much as in 

 species mentioned, but the ground-colour of the white-bordered 

 bands generally of a darker shade than the rest of the wing, and the 

 submarginal rows of crescent-shaped lunules large and distinct. 



Female. Scarcely distinguishable from that sex of J. woodfordii, 

 but the marginal row of lunules on the hind wing larger and more 

 distinct. Underside as in male. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Alu I., near Shortland I. Fauro I. Florida I. N.W. Bay, 

 Malaita I. 



This species can be at once distinguished from its allies by its dark 

 purple coloration. I think that there can be no doubt that Mr. 

 Butler's J. campanulata is a synonym of his J. woodfordii. I have 

 before me some 36 specimens of this form from the Fiji Islands, 

 varying in size from |- inch to li inch, and having the submarginal 

 line noted by Mr. Butler as a principal distinction varying from blue 

 to white, and in some cases disappearing altogether. 



Jamides cephion, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 19.) 



Male. Brilliant morpho blue, with emerald-green reflexions ; apex 



and outer margin narrowly black above, equal to that of J. soemias. 



Inner margin of hind wing densely black. Tail black, not tipped 



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