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Exp. wings, (? , "li to 1| inch" (Moore) ; ? , " -9 to l-2o inches" (de Nic). 



Hab.— Continental India; Khasia and Jyntea ] tills (Moore); Sikkim, Sliillong (de Nic.).- Malay 

 Peninsula ; Malacca (coll. Staudinger). 



A single male Malaccan specimen in the collection of Dr. Staudinger forms my only 

 knowledge of this species from the Peninsula. Although this specnueu di£rs from the typical 

 form of the species by the darker colouring of the anterior wings, and especially by the 

 brownish hue of the posterior wings, it was yet identified without doubt by Air. Moore himself as 

 representing his C. jynteana. When one compares the figures of this species given by Messrs. 

 Moore, de Niceville, and myself, the difficulty of properly portraying the colour of these small 

 Lijccmiihr (either by hand-colouring or chromo-lithography) becomes painfully apparent. This 

 difficulty, however, is scarcely detrimental to determination, for the markings beneath, on which 

 true identification depencls, will be seen to l)e uniform and unmistakablo. 



That the species is variable is shown by the following remarks of Mr. de Niceville :— 

 "Four male and two female specimens of this species were taken by me at different elevations 

 in Sikkim in October. The males differ in size, in the absence in two of them of the white 

 patch on the disc of the forewing on the upperside, and also in the width of the marginal black 

 border, which in some specimens disappears at the hinder angle. The underside is very 

 constant, all the spots and markings being very small and distinct."* 



4. Cyaniris placida. (Tab. XLIV., tig. 7 <? .) 



Cyamns placida, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 523, t. 48, f. 5 ; De Xic. J. A. S. Bang. vol. Hi. p. G8, u. 3, 

 t. 1, f. 8 (1883). 



"Allied to C.lavendularisA il/a/c— Upperside of a darker but duller blue, and of an uuilorm tint 

 throughout, C. hircndularis having the discal area of both wings slightly whitish; marginal black borders 

 similar but slightly narrower. Underside similarly marked, except that in the fore wing there are but 

 four transverse discal spots, which are also disposed in a more linear series." 



Exp. wings, " l-l inch." 



Hab.— Continental India; Darjeeling (coll. Moore) ; Sikkim; Sibsagar, Upper Assam (de Nic.).— 

 Malay Peninsula; Peuang (Biggs — coll. Dist.). 



A single specimen of this species, collected by the Kev. L. Biggs in Penang, has alone 

 reached me from the Peninsula. Mr. de Niceville writes that it is very common in Sikkim ; 

 he "took it at various elevations in October, and Mr. Otto Moller has taken it in large numljers 

 in the spring." 



5. Cyaniris .s^). ? (Tab. XLIV., tig. 10 2 .) 



I am unable to definitely identify this species, and having but one specimen of one sex 

 before me at present, and judging that such may most probably prove to be the female of some 

 other described species, I here merely figure and draw attention to it. 



Exp. wings, 5 , 30 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (coll. Staudinger). 



* J. A. S. Beng. vol. lii. p. 69. | A Ceylonese species. 



Sept. 30, 1886. 5 z 



