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these fasciffi becoming more or less fuscous on inner half of wing ; two somewhat faint ochraceous lines at 

 end of cell ; a black spot near base ; and some submarginal blackish spots, the two largest corresponding 

 with the position of those above. Body more or loss concolorous with wings; legs greyish, ])roadly 

 annulated with black; antennae black, narrowly aimulatod with greyish. 



Exp. wings, S , 20 to 32 millim. 



H.\B.— Continental India ; Sikkim (de Nic.) ; N.E. Himalaya (coll. Dist.).— Malay Peninsula ; i\ralacca 

 (Pinwill— Brit. Mus. ; Biggs — coll. Dist.). — Nias Island (Kheil). — Java (Horsf.).— Borneo (Druce). 



The female of this species appears to bo particularly scarce, aud I have uot as yet 

 received it. Mr. de Niceville states that 11. etolus is very common in Sikkim, that " it is a 

 rapid flyer, aud on the wing at oiice reminded me of the common blue-bodied Dragon-flies 

 which abound everywhere near water ; " and asks, " is it possible that a butterfly has ' mimicked' 



a LibeUuIa '^ " * 



3. Hypolycaena tharis. (Tab. XX., fig. 19.) 



OxijUdes Tharis, Hiibner, Zutr. Ex. Schmett. f. 883, 884 (1837). 



Myrina Tharis, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. vol. i. p. 47, n. 78 (1857); Butl. Trans. Linn. See. 



ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 550, n. 6 (1877). 

 Sithon Tharis, Kheil, Ehop. der Insel. Nias, p. 32, n. 108 (1884). 



Wings above dark chocolate-brown ; anterior wings with two obscure streaks of scattered bluish 

 scales situate one on each side of submedian nervure ; posterior wings with a transverse macular white 

 fascia crossing wing from apex of lower subcostal nervule to notch at anal angle ; beneath this is a white 

 spot at anal angle and a narrow submarginal white line, fringe white, submedian nervure tinged with 

 greyish ; tail-like appendages white, with faint dark central lines. Wings beneath ochraceous, the anterior 

 wings reddish ochraceous ; posterior wings with the anal angular area largely white, anteriorly defined by 

 a waved blackish line bordered with greyish, and from which some very obscure narrow pale linear fascife 

 radiate towards eosta ; this white area includes the following black spots : — a submarginal row of six, 

 of which the first, second and fifth are small and linear ; above the fifth and sixth is a broad irregular 

 spot and another is placed above notch at anal angle ; fringe and tail-like appendages as above. Body 

 more or less concolorous with wings; legs greyish, broadly annulated with black; antennas dark fuscous, 

 narrowly annulated beneath with greyish. 



Exp. wings, 28 to 32 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Perak (Kiinstler — Calc. Mus.) ; Sungei 

 Ujong iDurnford — coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.). — Nias Island (Kheil). — Java (Horsf.). 



4. Hypolycaena thecloides. 



Myrina thecloides, Felder, Wien. Ent. Men. iv. p. 395, u. 3 (1860). 



Hypolycicna thecloides, Hewits. III. Diiini. Lep. p. 49, n. 4, t. xxii. figs. 9, 10 (1869) ; 



Wood-Mas. & de Nic, J. A. S. Beng. vol. li. pt. ii. p. 17, n. 47 (1882) ; 



Moore, J. A. S. Beug. vol. liii. pt. ii. n. 1, p. 16 (1884). 



Not having seen this species I have copied Felder's original 

 diagnosis, and reproduced Hewitson's figure of the same. 



" Alls supra fuscis, posticis bicaudatis, fascia anali fulva, subtus omnibus 

 glauco-albis, litura discali geminata strigaque exteriore anticarum continua, Fio- "iH.—mjpolijcteim thecloides 



* J. A. S. Beng. vol. l. pt. ii. p. 59 (1881). 

 February 20, 1885. 3 u 



