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examination including the sexual organs showed that as a rule in the J' on the 

 upperside the white on the primaries is more extensive and the bases of the 

 wings as well as the costal margin of the primaries are powdered with blue, 

 but that there are also specimens which lack these distinguishing marks, and 

 in this respect completely resemble the 9- The underside is the same in both sexes. 



41. QUADRIPLAGA Sn. (PL XXII, J 2a, b). 



Snellen, Tijdschr. v. Eni., XXXY, bldz. 143 (1892) . Lycaena Ouadriplaga. 

 DE NiCEViLLE, Journ. Bombay Soc. of Nat. Hist., VI, 



P- 2>^2>> pl- F, fig. 13 (189 1) Cyaniris Coalita. 



Fruhstorfer, Steit. Ent. Zcit., ig 10, 5. 299 . . . „ Quadriplagata. 



W. J. Megamendoung and Gedeh mts. (1350); mount Malabar (1700); 

 mount Salak (780). 



C J.? 



E. J. Mount Ardjouno (de Niceville). 



Fruhstorfer describes a form of this butterfly from E. J. as Aphala. 

 Snellen gives the following notes of the species : " It is related to Akasa, 

 and has the same shape of primaries, only in the cT somewhat straighter at 

 the back, while the ground colour of the upperside is also white ; but every- 

 where with broad dusty black outside margin and darkly powdered wing bases 

 so that the white only survives as irregular round patches. In the cT these 

 patches are not sharply defined powdered with silver blue, especially towards 

 the inner margin ; the veins inside the white, with the exception of vein 5 of 

 the secondaries, are delicate and dark. In the ?, which has more rounded 

 wings, the white on the upperside is more extensive, as the black margin of 

 the secondaries in particular is narrower the white is also more sharply 

 defined; the dark wing bases are slightly powdered, and on the secondaries 

 the dark spots on the underside show through. The underside is white, with 

 a blue tint in it ; the primaries have a delicate dark middle stripe, their bended 

 row consists of large round spots, is placed far back and is strongly curved 

 above, the three undermost lie against the marginal marking. On the secon- 

 daries there are four black spots at the base, the curved row is strongly undul- 

 ating and consists of large black spots, except in cells 5 and 6 where they 

 are small. The marginal markings are as clear as those on the primaries. 

 Fringe line fine black; the fringe bluish white, with very faint dark line over 

 the base, and on the upperside that of the primaries with dark spots. Thorax, 

 abdomen and legs white, the last with black spots. 



