172 



Museum has specimens from Champion Bay and Aru Islands 

 'Butler). 



Mackay to Cooktown ; November to February ; also from 



New Guinea (Meek). 



107. P. lugubris, Bdv. 



Thymele lugubris, Bdv., Voy., "Astrolabe," Lep., p. 160, 

 1832. Easora lugubris, M. and L., T.R.S., p. 124. 



I have but the single <S specimen. It is probably only 

 a straggler from the adjacent islands. Cape York. 



Note. — Parata bilunata, Butl., from Fiji, is very close 

 to chromus, Cr. I have one indifferent specimen, and it can- 

 not be satisfactorily separated from our chromus; probably 

 a series from the type locality, Fiji, might show a recognizable 

 distinction. I consider it a doubtfully good species. Colonel 

 Swinhoe returned it as chromus. 



