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spots mentioned before ; the second two are shifted outwards, the next two inwards, and 

 the final two further inwards again and quite detached from them ; the last spot of 

 these, touching the internal nervure and joining the angular one, is very long and 

 extends almost up to the lowest basal spot; submarginal lunular row distinct. Lob • 

 spot black ; spot between the lower and second median nervules black, over which, as 

 also over the marginal space between them, are bluish or greenish metallic si 

 Extreme margin finely white. 



?. Primaries: upperside blackish, with a large patch of very pale iridescent 

 extending a little beyond the discoidal cell to the inner margin and occupying 

 two-thirds of the median area of the wing, in which area is a largish white patch sh 

 through the iridescence. Secondaries: upperside greyish brown, with a pale slightly 

 iridescent blue central area from the submedian to just over the discoidal nervure. 

 Underside precisely as in the male. 



These descriptions are taken from a male and female in my collection from H 

 heira ; the male agrees quite with Felder's type. I have male specimens from Batchian 

 which agree entirely with the type from Mangioli: however, the males differ slightly in 

 having a broader suffused black posterior margin to the primaries; in some specimens 

 this border is rather narrow, but in others it becomes very broad from the lower mi 

 nervule up to the apex. The two female specimens I have before me are entirely 

 brown all over, with a few superimposed pale blue scales on the basal area, in one 

 specimen only just sufficient to be seen, in the other more or less over the cell, and 

 more thickly beneath the cell in the primaries only. 



Herr Rober described his species viola from Bangka, which is evidently only a slight 

 variety of Felder's species ; the colour is quite similar, but the apex and outer mars 

 the lower median nervule are broadly suffused with blackish. The insect is evidently 

 variable both as to the width of the border and the tone of brown beneath: ! 

 specimens from Mangioli in which the border is moderately narrow, and others in which 

 it is almost as wide as in the Bangka specimens of Rober ; whilst beneath in 

 specimens the ground-colour is rather pale with the pattern slightly outlined with 

 whitish, and in others it is very dark with very marked whitish outlines. In Mangioli 

 specimens the female is entirely brown with a slight scattering of pale blue scale 

 the basal area, and occasionally even these are almost obsolete. 



This species has apparently not been recognised by anyone since Felder described it : 

 all the specimens before me have been sent me as eridanus Feld. (a species about two- 

 thirds its size), though the Felders in their work (L c.) speak of it as reaching the size 

 of camdeo Hew., and on the previous page they speak of eridanus as a third smaller 

 than camdeo. 



There is now, however, no doubt as to the correct identity of each, for I have 

 examined the original types very carefully. The distribution is narrow ; I have only 

 seen specimens from Ilalmaheira, Batchian, Bangka, and Mangioli (Sula Islands), and 



