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Snellen assumes two species in these specimens, which he distinguishes 

 as L. Argiolus L. and L. Huegeli Moore. In my opinion, however, they 

 should be united. The opinion that the specimens which Snellen named L. 

 Argiolus are identical with the European species of that name has been shown 

 to be erroneous, as the J" genitals differ greatly in the two ; on the other hand 

 those which he calls L. Huegeli Moore correspond to Javanese ones which he 

 takes for Argiolus L. Fruhstorfer calls the species dilectus Moore para- 

 dilecta, and the form Huegeli forma astarga Frst. 



Here again we evidently have two forms of the same species in a different 

 stage of the evolutionary fading process, to which the oldest naming L. Limbatus 

 Moore belongs, while beside it Huegeli Moore may remain as an older form 

 in which the shade of blue on the upperside of the cf is distinctly darker than 

 in the former, and is also preserved along the costal margin of the secondaries 

 on the upperside of the cf , where it has become whitish in the first mentioned 

 form. Of both forms I possess many cT, but only one 9, of the form 

 Huegeli Moore. 



A third form, which however does not occur in Java, is L. Dilectus 

 Moore {Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1879, I,/. 139), there described as L. Limbatus 

 Moore, in which the fading process is even further advanced than in these, 

 so that on the upperside of both wings of the c? the white appears in large 

 patches. The difference between these two forms is thus the same as that which 

 arises between individuals of L. Coalita de Nic. (PI. XXII, 77a and b). 



50. Placida de Nic. (PI. XXII 82). 



de Nic^ville, Joiirn. Asiat. Soc. 0/ Bengal, LII, 2, p. 68, 



No. 3, //. I, fig. 8 (1883) Cyaniris Placida. 



Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. of London, i883,;'.523,//. 48, Jig. 5 „ „ 



DiSTANT.^i?//^/. i^«/-, A 453. 7^^(5.44, y??'- 7 (1882 — 86) 



Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. of London, \^^'~„ p. -:>ll,pl-Z2,fig. 10 „ Selma. 



„ „ ,, „ .. » ,. -. .. " 4 ., Atrophis. 



Swinhoe, Lep. Ind., VII, /. 220, //. 624, Jig. 2 — 2c 



(1Q05 10) Lycaenopsis Placida. 



Bingham, Fauna of Brit. Lid., Butt. 11, /. 326 (1907) Cyaniris 



Fruhstorfer, Stett. Enl. Zeit., 1 9 10, 5. 291 . . . . „ Atrophis. 



W. J. Without further indication of place of capture. 



C. J.? 



E. J. Mount Ardjouno (1500); Banyouwangy. 



The two specimens which I possess from E. J. are cf, the shade of blue 



