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E. J. Malang (443); (Hillebrand) ; one specimen without further indication 

 of place of capture. 



I found this species in Batavia, where it is by no means uncommon, and 

 was then described by Snellen in the article quoted above as a new species, 

 which he calls Saturata, as follows. 



Upperside of the c? dark blue, the primaries towards the base, and the 

 secondaries also towards the costal margin paler, where the white lines from 

 the underside more or less show through. The costal margin of the primaries 

 is white from the base to beyond the discal area, then equally black ; the outer 

 margin black, towards the base not sharply defined, above about i4- mm. broad, 

 at the outer angle sometimes not reaching further than the fringe line. On 

 the secondaries only the fringe line is black, which, in the direction of the base 

 in all cells is edged with white lines divided by blue scaled veins, along which, 

 in the cells i and 2 — or only in i — a black line is again seen, usually edged 

 along the inner border with a double red and white line. 



The 9 on the upperside is dull greyish blue, with a dingy black outer 

 margin of the primaries, and above vein 6 and the discoidal cell a grey-black 

 costal margin of the secondaries. The outer margin of these also is grey-black 

 for the breadth of about 3 mm., towards the base more or less distincly edged 

 with small white or bluish white arches ; divided in the middle by similar arches ; 

 in cell 2 there is a semi-circular black spot, which towards the base is formed 

 first by a blue and then by a dirty orange-yellow arch. Fringe-line marked in 

 the same way as the (3. 



Upon the clear grey underside the white lines are broad, and clear in 

 colour, the inner border of the primaries only white in cell i^. In this species 

 a striking feature is the very extensive orange border to the black spot at the 

 end of cell 2 of the secondaries, which spreads into cell 3 and ir. The black 

 spot has some silver-green scaling, on both sides, traces of which are still 

 seen in cell 1 1 . 



Fringe grey, fine white divisions on the secondaires. Breast, belly and 

 legs white, with black markings on the last. 



Nearly related to Lycaena Suidas Felder, A^ovara pi. 34, from the Philip- 

 pines, but differing from it, as is shown clearly by comparing it with a specimen 

 in my collection, which Snellen received from Felder himself, as in Saturata 

 the colour of the primaries is more greenish, Suidas lacks the black outer 

 margin and the black along a portion of the costal margin which is peculiar 

 to Saturata, and on the underside of the secondaries in the latter the orange 

 is much more extensive. 



In the <3 the blue on the upperside is often more or less whitish and the 



