542 MESSES, n. n. druce and g. t. bethtjne-baker on [June 20, 



Female specimens from Mysol and one in Dr. Staudinger's 

 collection from Waigiou agree best with Dr. Felder's figure, but 

 a female in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's possession has a rather 

 less extensive blue band on liind wing beneath. These gentlemen 

 also possess a female from Aru Islands, which does not differ from 

 the 'New Guinea female except in its smaller size (1|- inch). 



This is a somewhat puzzling species on account of the exceptional 

 difference in the widths of the lalue bands on underside of hind 

 wings of the two sexes and also the varying width of this band 

 in the female, no t\^o specimens, even from the same locality, 

 being identical. 



Judging from the arrangement in the British Museum, Mr. Butler 

 appears to think that Boisduval's name {sehm) should be used for 

 the Aru Islands form, but I am unable to distinguish it from 

 T. cqwUonius and think it is quite evident from the context of 

 Boisduval's description that he was simply redescribing Cramer's 

 insect. 



Probably the specimen Godart described from Eawak (Encycl. 

 Meth. p. 578) was a representative of T. apollonius. 



Genitalia very closely allied to those of T.danis^hui hooks shorter. 

 Penis with hinged cover longer than lower portion. (Plate XLVII. 

 figs. 2, 2 a.) 



The drawing is from a New Guinea example. 



Var. supous, nov. (Plate XLV. fig. 7.) 



*'■ Lycama danis, Cr., var. siqyoiis, Eibbe," Stand. MS. 



Hah. Wammo Dobbo, Aru Is. (C. llihle) (Mus. Sfaud.). 



Dr. Staudinger has sent us a female with the above MS. name, 

 which, in the absence of more material and without seeing the male, 

 we prefer to treat as a variety. On the upperside it is quite 

 typical, but beneath it differs from Dr. Felder's figure in the hind 

 wing having a somewhat wider white band and considerably less 

 blue. 



Thysonotis regina. 



Thysonotis regina, Kirbv, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xvi. p, 1G3 

 (1889). 



Hah. Normanby I., Louisiade Archipelago, 



This species may be distinguished from the preceding principally 

 by having the disks of the fore wing in the male almost completely 

 covered with blue. The only specimens we have seen are the types 

 in the British Museum, which do not vary. They were collected 

 by Mr. Basil Thomson in 1888, and are the most eastei-ly examples 

 of this group at present known. 



Mr. Kirby {loc. cit. p. 164) writes of this insect : " Size of T. sebcp, 

 West., but the male more resembles 1\ danis, Cr. :" but Westwood 

 in his description clearly only dealt with Cramer's species, so that 

 the meaning of this remark is not quite apparent. 



