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67. C. philippina Semper, Ta,//. riiiUpp. p. 168. t. 32. f. 14—18 (1889). ' 



There is a good suite of 7Hah's of a species, which appears to me to be 

 the foregoing. At all events, though I could wish to be a little more certain 

 upon this point, I can find no description of any species of Cyaniris which applies 

 better to the specimens before me. Semper relies apparently more ivpon his 

 plates than upon the letterpress of his work, and the few remarks he make^ 

 about this species do not throw much light upon certain points, upon which 

 his plates fail equally to give information. The specimens before me all have 

 a little white upon the disc of the primaries and on the costa of the secondaries. 

 Semper says nothing about this in his description, which is, however, so meagre 

 as to hardly merit to be called such ; and the plates, which are made by a 

 photographic process, also fail to tell us anything about this point. Blue surfaces 

 in photography often take lighter than white surfaces. On the underside Semper's 

 figures agree with my specimens, spot for spot, though the markings in some 

 of the examples before me are heavier and more pronounced than they appear 

 in the plates in the Butterflies of the Philippine Islands. 



Genus ZIZERA Moore. 



68. Z. gaika (Trimen), Trans. Eiit. Soc. Loud. (3). I. p. 403 (1862). 



A large number of specimens of both sexes of this widely distributed form. 



69. Z. subcoerulea sp. uov. 



tj. The body is fuscous on the upperside, and is clothed with bluish hairs. 

 The underside of the body is pale whitish grey. Tlie legs are also whitish grey, 

 marked with darker grey upon the outer edges of the tibiae, and on the tarsi. The 

 palpi are white, edged below with blackish hairs. The antennae are black above, 

 and below are ringed with white. The wings on the upperside are pale purplish 

 blue, almost of the same tint as light-coloured specimens of Cafochri/sops strabo, 

 but without the sheen of that species. On the costa near the base most specimens 

 in certain lights show a white lustre. Both wings are marked by a fine blackish 

 marginal line, within which on each interspace along the border are small Innular 

 markings, those of the primaries diffuse, and pale ashen greenish, paler than the 

 body of the wing, rarely fuscous ; those of the secondaries pale fuscous, marked 

 inwardly and outwardly by paler grey. The fringes are grey, lighter on the 

 secondaries than on the primaries, and distinctly interrupted at the end of each 

 nervnle by darker fuscous. On the underside both wings are pale cool grey. Both 

 are ornamented by spots of pale brown, only a shade darker than the body of the 

 wings, and uniformly surrounded by light whitish lines and markings. These 

 markings are as follows : On the primaries there is a longitudinal transverse mark 

 at the end of the cell, a discal series of spots crossing the wing from the costa to 

 the inner margin about two-thirds of the distance from the base, one spot on each 

 interspace, the whole series being conformed in a regular curve to the line of the 

 outer margin. This series of spots is succeeded near the margin by a double series" 

 of Innules, the spots composing the inner series being larger than those of the outer 

 series. Both sets of lunules are margined on both sides by pale grey, but in the 

 case of the inner series this pale grey colour is extended diffusely inwardly almost as- 



