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13. HYPOLYCiENA danisoides, n. sp., Plate III, Fig. 21, $ . 



Habitat : Ke Islands. [? Mansinam and Ceram, Grose Smith.'} 



Expanse : 9 , 1*4 inches. 



Description : Female. Upperside, both wings differ from the 

 figure of " Myrina " dams, Felder, Reise Novara, Iiep., vol. ii, p. 240, 

 n. 273, pi. xxx, figs. 12, 13, female (1865), from Halmaheira (Gilolo), 

 in having the discal white band fully twice as broad, with straighter 

 edges, thereby greatly reducing the extent of the plumbeous ground- 

 colour. Underside, both wings have the discal white band of the same 

 breadth as in " M." danis, but that species as figured has its outer edge 

 tinted with yellow, there being no trace of this colour in the species 

 here described. Male (also of M. dam's) unknown. 



The lunular markings on the upperside of the hindwing are most 

 gorgeously iridescent, varying in different lights from dull leaden-blue 

 to brilliant purple and then to emerald-green. On the underside these 

 markings are metallic (not iridescent) pale silvery-blue. 



Described from a single specimen received from Herr Heinrich 

 Kiihn. It has only two subcostal nervules to the forewing, and appears 

 to be a true Hypolycsena. This is probably the species referred to by 

 Mr. Henley Grose Smith in Novitates Zoologica?, vol. i, p. 583, n. 267 

 (18y4), under the name of Sithon danis, Felder, thus : — " One example 

 from Mansinam [ ? Dutch N.-W. New Guinea]. The white area is more 

 extended on both wings than in Felder's type, but I have specimens in 

 my collection from Ceram, captured by Mr. Wallace, which agree with 

 Mr. Doherty's specimen. Possibly it may be a distinct species/' 

 Mr. Hamilton H. Druce in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist, sixth series, 

 vol. xiii, p. 252 (1894) notes: — " Myrina danis, Felder, cannot, in my 

 opinion, be placed in this genus [Hypochlorosis, H6ber = Pseudonotis, 

 H. H. Druce] as, besides possessing two tails and a distinct lobe to the 

 anal angle, it presents a somewhat different arrangement of the ner- 

 vules in the forewing, the costal nervure and the first subcostal nervule 

 being bent towards each other and running side by side for some short 

 distance. The palpi, as pointed out by Dr. Felder, are different, the 

 third joint being longer and the second shorter ; the eyes also are 

 hairy. It is closely allied to Hypolycsena" 



Genus Bullis, nov. 



Very close to Britomartis, mihi, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 

 ix, p. 304 (1895), from which it differs only in the absence in the male 

 of a hirge patch of androconia on the upperside of the forewing 

 occupying the outer three-fourths of the discoidal cell, and extending 

 into the discoidal and median interspaces ; the apex of the forewing 



