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This description runs as follows : The ground colour of the upperside of 

 this species, which occupies a pretty well isolated position amongst the Lycaenae 

 of Java is brownish grey, shot with a purple-blue. Along the outer margin, to 

 a width of about 2 mm. it is pretty evenly of a darker shade, and this border 

 is on the secondaries in the cells 4 and ic marked with four black spots, 

 increasing in size downward but not sharply defined. The underside is of a 

 ligt grey ground colour, which on the primaries is slightly mixed with white ; 

 on the secondaries also on the costal margin, but more distinctly, forming a 

 broad band before the edge spots. The Lycaena marking is dark brown grey, 

 not distinct, and the spots are as it were split up, so that on the basal area of 

 the primaries four dark stripes are seen in the middle cell, and two more below 

 them in cell i d, while the usual curved row of lunules is indicated by two rows 

 of dark lines running approximately parallel ; except that the line in cell 

 4 bulges a little. On the secondaries the markings are still more irregular 

 and more shotty, so that the middle and basal spots, as well as the row cannot 

 well be distinguished. 



The margin spots are however more distinct, on the secondaries in cell 

 If and 4 they are decorated by two coal black, bright silver spots. Fringe 

 line of the finest black, fringe mixed grey and white. Thorax, abdomen and 

 legs grey-white, the tarsi ringed with fine black. The J is as yet unknown. 



40. Akasa Horsf. (PI. XXII, jia,d). 



Horsfield, Ca/. Lep. E. I. C, p. 67,//. i, /?!<,'. i, ia(i828) Polyommatus Akasa. 



Moore, Lep. of Cey/o?i, I, p. 75, />/. 34, fig. 5 (1881) Cyaniris „ 

 SwiNHOE, Lip. Ind., VII, /. 223, //. 626, fig. I, \a, \b 



(1905 — 10) Lycaenopsis „ 



Bingham, Fauna of Brit. Ind., Butt. II, />. 686, /zV. 78 (1907) Cyaniris „ 



Fruhstorfer, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1910, 5. 283 .... „ „ 



Courvoisier, Tijdschr. v. Ent., LV, bid. 16 (191 2) . . „ „ 



•W. J. Megamendoung, Gedeh and further Prayangan mts. (1500); mount 

 Salak (780). 



C. J. Province of Tegal, (Lucassen) ; Magelang (500). 



E. J. Mount Semarou (700) Tosari (1777); Banyouwangy, mount Ardjouno. 



This species is very common in all the higher mountains of Java; there 

 is no difference between specimens from \V. J. and E. J. Snellen notes in 

 connection with this species that the $ seems to be little known, as Horsfield 

 describes only the cT and Moore's illustration gives as the 9 of the species that 

 of OuADRiPLAGA, while DE NiCEViLLE onlv repeats these two writers. A careful 



