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species described by them and allied to or synonymous with the type 

 species of the genus Sancus, a specimen of which I sent to each of 

 these gentlemen, I am still unable to give the synonymy with any 

 certainty. Dr. Staudinger writes to me that subfasciatus, Moore, is 

 certainly the same as Astictopterus (Psolos) ulunda, Plotz, and Ta- 

 giades pulligo, Mabille, as given by him (Dr. Staudinger) in his paper 

 on the Butterflies of Palawan in " Iris," vol. ii, p. 147 (1889). The 

 name i( ulunda" appears to be a MS. one, which I have been unable 

 to trace either in any of the late Herr Plotz's papers or in the 

 Record of Zoological Literature. The genus "Psolos" of Mabille also 

 seems never to have been described, and I am unaware what species 

 M. Mabille takes as the type. 



Judging from the figure of Tagiades ? fuscula, Snellen, Tijd. voor 

 Ent., vol. xxi, p. 42, n. 183, pi. ii, fig. 3 (1878), from Bonthain, 

 Bantimoerong, Mangkasar, all in South- Western Celebes, I thought 

 that that species also was synonymous with subfasciatus. Heer 

 Snellen writes to me that he does not think that this is so, as fuscula 

 is a " long-winged " species. But it appears to me that this elonga- 

 tion of the wings is one of the most marked characteristics of sub- 

 fasciatus. Heer Snellen tells me distinctly that while pulligo has the 

 curious "male-mark" characteristic of subfasciatus, fuscula lacks it 

 entirely; and, moreover, that Staudinger's celunda from Celebes [Iris, 

 vol. ii, p. 146 (1889)] is a synonym of the T. ? fuscula, Snellen, from 

 the same island. But to complicate matters still further, Dr. Stau- 

 dinger distinctly states that the characteristic male-mark of my 

 genus S uncus is found in celunda, while Heer Snellen says it is not 

 present in the male of fuscula. How, therefore, can the two species 

 be the same, as Heer Snellen considers them to be ? 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 

 Plate F. 

 Fig. 1. Myealesis {Myctilus) mystes, n. sp., 6 , dry-season form, p. 343 

 „ 2. „ „ „ „ „ wet- „ „ p. 344. 



,, 3. Clerome kirata, n. sp., 6 , p. 344. s^"C\C~A 



„ 4. Argynnis mackinnonii, n. sp., 6 , p. 346. /&* - ^ /\ 



„ 5. „ „ ,, 9, p. 346. 



„ 6. yeptis nar, n. sp., ? , p. 349. 

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