1891.] lyc^nidjE of the solomon islands. 369 



showing through. Underside as in male, but with a large paf^ch of 

 orange on hind wing reaching from the submedian nervure almoit to 

 the apex. 



Both sexes with a short streak of silvery blue on each side of the 

 median nervules and the submedian nervure near the margin. 



Expanse, (^ ^-^ inch, $ li-lf inch. 



Alu I., near Shortland I. Aola, Guadalcanar I, 



This species is similar to L. coruscans, Moore, ou the upperside, 

 but differs in having the black margins reduced to a narrow line ; 

 the fore wing also being broader, and the hind wing more produced 

 apically. 



Catochrysops, Boisd. 

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

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

 Mr. Woodford's collections contained several specimens of this 

 wide-ranging species. 



Catochrysops platissa, Herrich-Schaffer, Stett. ent. Zeit. 

 vol. XXX. p. 74, pi. iv. fig. 20 (1869), $ . 



Alu I., near Shortland I. Aola, Guadalcanar I. N.W. Bay, 

 Malaita I. Fauro I. ( $ ). 



Specimens from these islands agree well with several from the New 

 Hebrides. in the British Museum sent by Herrich-Schaffer under his 

 name, and I think that both Herr Semper and Mr. de Niceville are 

 wrong in placing it as a synonym of C. strabo, Fabr. It is greyish 

 silvery blue, much like O. lithargyria, Moore, but darker ; and I 

 should much prefer to say that it was the same as the latter species 

 than the former. 



We have specimens of C. straho from N. Australia, whence the 

 type of C. platissa is stated to have come. The male is described 

 as pale sky-blue, and it is impossible to recognize the species from 

 the figures given of the female. 



Tarucus, Moore. 

 Tarucus plinius. 



Tarucus plinius, Fabr. Ent. Syst. vol. iii. pt. I, p. 284 (1793). 



Lampides cassioides, Murray, Ent. Mo. Mag. x. p. 108 (1873). 



Lampides pseudocassius, Murray, Ent. Mo. Mag. x. p. 126 (1873). 



Malaita I. Florida I. Fauro I. 



A large race of this variable insect seems to inhabit these islands, 

 and the only female before me (from Malaita I.) is much clouded with 

 brown and has very little blue on the disks. Some confusion still 

 seems to exist as to this species and its allies : Mr. Trimen (South- 

 African Butt. vol. ii. p. 69, 1887) places T. pulchra, Murray, as a 

 synonym of T. telicanus, Lang, whilst Mr. de Niceville (Butt. Ind., 

 &c. vol. iii. p. 194, 1890) places it under T. plinius, and states 

 (p. 187) that T. telicanus, Lang, is another species, which I think 

 will probably prove to be the case. 



