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  VII. 
  A 
  Monograph 
  of 
  the 
  Lyccenid 
  genus 
  Hypochrysops, 
  

   ivith 
  descriptions 
  of 
  neiv 
  species. 
  By 
  Hamilton 
  

   H. 
  Druce, 
  F.E.S. 
  

  

  [Eead 
  December 
  3rd, 
  1890.] 
  

  

  Plates 
  X. 
  & 
  XI. 
  

  

  Hypochrysops. 
  

  

  Thecla, 
  sect. 
  Hypochrysops, 
  Feld., 
  Wien. 
  Ent. 
  Men., 
  

  

  iv., 
  p. 
  243 
  (1860). 
  

   Hypochrysops, 
  Feld., 
  Eeise 
  Nov. 
  Lep., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  251 
  (1865). 
  

   Miletus 
  (part), 
  Hiibner, 
  Verz. 
  bek. 
  Sclimett., 
  p. 
  71 
  

  

  (1816). 
  

   Miletus 
  (part), 
  Westw., 
  Gen. 
  Diurnal 
  Lep., 
  p. 
  502 
  

  

  (1852). 
  

   Miletus, 
  Butler, 
  Cat. 
  Fabr., 
  p. 
  159 
  (1870). 
  

  

  No 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  this 
  beautiful 
  genus 
  of 
  butter- 
  

   flies 
  has 
  been 
  published 
  since 
  Mr. 
  Kirby's 
  Catalogue 
  ; 
  

   but 
  a 
  few 
  species 
  have 
  been 
  described, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   present 
  paper 
  I 
  have 
  added 
  five 
  more, 
  viz., 
  four 
  from 
  

   the 
  Solomon 
  Islands, 
  belonging 
  to 
  Messrs. 
  Godman 
  and 
  

   Salvin, 
  to 
  whom 
  my 
  best 
  thanks 
  are 
  due 
  for 
  their 
  kind- 
  

   ness 
  in 
  allowing 
  me 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  their 
  specimens, 
  and 
  one 
  

   from 
  Australia. 
  Unfortunately 
  very 
  few 
  of 
  these 
  insects 
  

   have 
  been 
  delineated, 
  and 
  I 
  find 
  that 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  thirty- 
  

   two 
  species 
  here 
  enumerated, 
  ten 
  only 
  have 
  been 
  

   figured 
  ; 
  and 
  amongst 
  the 
  unfigured 
  species 
  are 
  five 
  

   described 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  Hewitson, 
  and 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  

   collection 
  which 
  bears 
  his 
  name 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum. 
  

   These 
  I 
  have 
  had 
  carefully 
  drawn, 
  and 
  propose 
  repre- 
  

   senting 
  them 
  on 
  the 
  plates. 
  

  

  Although 
  by 
  following 
  certain 
  lepidopterists, 
  Hiibner's 
  

   name 
  Miletus 
  should 
  take 
  priority, 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  species 
  

   mentioned 
  by 
  him 
  is 
  the 
  P. 
  polycletus, 
  Linn., 
  yet 
  I 
  

   prefer, 
  seeing 
  that 
  these 
  insects 
  have 
  become 
  so 
  well 
  

   known 
  under 
  Felder's 
  name, 
  to 
  use 
  his 
  name 
  Hypo- 
  

   chrysops. 
  Again, 
  Felder 
  has 
  definitely 
  characterised 
  the 
  

  

  TRANS. 
  ENT. 
  SOC 
  LOND. 
  1891, 
  — 
  PART 
  II. 
  (jUNE.) 
  

  

  