210 RIIOPALOCEEA MALAYANA. 



1. Neopithecops horsfieldi,* n.sp. (Tab. XXII., tig. 15 <? .) 



Male. Wings above dark purplish ; anterior wings with the apex and outer margin distinctly and 

 broadly darker ; posterior wings with the fringe greyish-white. Wings beneath greyish-white ; anterior 

 wings with the following brownish markings, riz. :— an oblique line extending from costa to upper diseoidal 

 nervule, followed by a broken transverse linear fascia, a more continuous submarginal linear fascia between 

 which and the outer margin are a series of linear spots, and an outer marginal line ; posterior wings with 

 a large blackish spot near apex, and brownish markings as on anterior wings. Body above and beneath 

 more or less concolorous with wings ; legs greyish-white, more or less annulated with brownish. 



Exp. wings, 20 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Singajwre (Kerr). 



I have as yet received but a single example of this species, obligingly sent to me by its 

 captor, Capt. J. M. Kerr. 



Genus CYANIEIS. 



Cyaniris, Dalman, Vetensk. Acad. Handl. xxxvii. 63, 9-1 (181G) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 74 (1881). 

 Lycanopsix, Feld. Raise Nov. Lcp. p. 257 (18G5). 



Anterior wings subtriangular, costal margin oblique, outer margin oblique and slightly convex, inner 

 margin nearly straight ; costal nervure terminating at about centre of costal margin ; first subcostal 

 nervule emitted a little beyond basal half of cell, second between base of first and end of cell, third and 

 fourth bifurcating between end of cell and apex of wing ; t cell long, narrow, extending to about half the 

 length of wing ; first and second median nervules emitted a short distance fi'om each other at end of cell ; 

 third median nervule emitted a little beyond basal half of cell. Posterior wings subovate, costal and 

 posterior margins convex ; costal ner^iire extending to apex, first subcostal nervule emitted a little before 

 the end of cell. Palpi porrect, second joint pilose, projecting half beyond the head, third slender and about 

 half the length of second ; legs well developed, femora moderately pilose ; antennae with a well-formed 

 elongate club. 



I can lind uo sufScieut character to separate the proposed genus Lijcmnopsis, Feld., from 

 Ciianiris. Felder himself appended to his diagnosis of the typical species the remark, 

 " Erinnert auch in dcr Zeichnung der Unterseite an die Gruppe von Lyccena Anjiolus, L.," 

 and as Mr. Moore (supra) gives this species as the type of Cyaniris, there seems little doubt 

 as to common identity. 



I am only able at present to enumerate two species of Cyamris in this fauna. Mr. Butler, 

 in his paper on the "Butterflies of Malacca,"]: mGludcd the Lyccena cagaya, Feld., a species 

 which clearly appertains to this genus. Our artist, however, was unable to see this specimen 

 at the British Museum, it being no longer placed under Felder's name, and was not then 

 discoverable. I have not received it from the Malay Peninsula, and, as Felder described it from 

 Luzon, it has probably been erroneously ascribed to Malacca. 



* This species is dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. Thomas Horsfield, whose name is inseparably connected with 

 the Natural History of Java. 



_ t Mr. Moore (Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 7-1) describes a fifth subcostal nervule emitted " from end of the cell," but in my view this 



18 clearly the upper diseoidal nervule. 



I Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 548, n. 1 (1878). 



