BuTLEE. — On the ButtertUes of Xeiv Zealand. 273 



Male. — Wings above dull lilacine blue with a dull brown border, widest 

 towards the apices of the wings ; fringe and costal area of x^rimaries, from 

 the base to bej'ond the end of the cell, silvery-greyish ; body brown, the 

 thorax bluish-black ; wings below pale greyish stone-colour ; a discal series 

 of whitish-bordered pale-brown spots, angulated upon the secondaries ; a 

 sub-marginal series of pale brown spots, lunulate on primaries and sagittate 

 on secondaries, bounded internallj^ by a white border, and enclosing an 

 almost marginal series of triangular pale brown spots ; a brown marginal 

 line ; fringes whitish ; body below whitish ; expanse of wmgs, 1 inch 2 

 lines. 



This species seems to occur more or less commonly throughout Australia 

 and the islands of the South Pacific ; it is probably the male of L. alsulus 

 of Herrich-Schiiffer (described in the Stettin Zeitung for 1869), but this 

 point requires confirmation. 



9. Lycmm oxleyi. 



Lyccena oxleyi, Felder, Keise der Novara, Lep., II., p. 280, pi. 35, fig. 6 (1865). 



Male. — Wings above lilacine blue, rather brighter in tint than in the 

 preceding species ; primaries with the apex and outer border rather 

 broadly shining dark brown ; secondaries with the costal area broadly and 

 the outer margin narrowly brown ; fringes of all the wings white, spotted 

 with brown at the terminations of the veins ; body black, the head, tegul^e, 

 and sides of thorax clothed with grey hairs ; wings below greyish-brown ; 

 primaries glossy, irrorated towards the base of costal area with whitish 

 scales ; a black litura indicating the discocellulars, a discal oblique series of 

 semi-chcular black spots, angulated towards the costa ; a double sub- 

 marginal series of blackish spots, encircled by white scales ; fringe as above ; 

 secondaries crossed by two irregular series of black spots, the inner series 

 near the base composed of three or four small spots, the outer series 

 angulated, very irregular, and composed of about eight larger spots ; the 

 whole basal area to the second series of spots u'rorated mth white scales ; 

 outer border irrorated with white with traces of sub-marginal spots ; fringe 

 as above ; palpi, abdomen, and legs below white, pectus grey ; expanse of 

 wings 1 inch 1 line. 



The measurements of this and the preceding species are taken from 



Mr. Enys' specimens. 



Chrysophanus, Hilbner. 



10. Chrysophanus boldenarum. 



Lyccena boldenarum, White, Proc. Ent. Soc, Ser. 3, 1, p. 26 (1862). 

 Chrysophanus boldenarum, Butler, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Ins. Lep., p. 29, 

 n. 8 ; pi. 8, figs. 8, 9 (1874). 

 Male. — Wings above brown, shot with ghstening purple ; a curved discal 

 series of six orange spots bordered internally with black on each wing ; a 



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