﻿LYC.^NID.E 
  (Oriental). 
  

  

  GENUS 
  ILERDA. 
  Dodbl. 
  

  

  I.— 
  ILERDA 
  KIANA. 
  3 
  . 
  Figs. 
  8, 
  9. 
  ? 
  . 
  Fio. 
  10. 
  

  

  Sithov 
  Kiana, 
  H. 
  Grose- 
  Smith, 
  " 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  Nat. 
  History," 
  

   Ser. 
  6, 
  Vol. 
  III., 
  p. 
  317 
  (April, 
  1889). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  S. 
  1|^ 
  inches; 
  ?. 
  IJ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Mah'. 
  Upperside. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  dark 
  brown. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  : 
  basal 
  

   and 
  costal 
  third 
  dark 
  brown, 
  the 
  remaining 
  part 
  light 
  blue, 
  shading 
  to 
  white 
  

   towards 
  the 
  anal 
  angle, 
  at 
  which 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  black 
  spot 
  ; 
  an 
  oval 
  black 
  spot 
  

   between 
  the 
  lowest 
  and 
  middle 
  median 
  nervule 
  ; 
  one 
  white 
  tail, 
  margin 
  narrowly 
  

   black 
  ; 
  cilia 
  white, 
  spotted 
  with 
  black 
  at 
  the 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  veins. 
  

  

  Underside. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  rufous-orange, 
  a 
  rather 
  broad 
  rufous 
  band 
  on 
  

   the 
  outer 
  margin 
  ; 
  inner 
  margin 
  narrowly 
  grey 
  ; 
  an 
  indistinct 
  short 
  white 
  line, 
  

   edged 
  externally 
  with 
  brown 
  near 
  the 
  outer 
  angle 
  at 
  the 
  inner 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  rufous 
  

   band 
  ; 
  an 
  indistinct, 
  interrupted, 
  transverse 
  grey 
  line 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle, 
  

   becoming 
  obsolete 
  towards 
  the 
  costa. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  rufous-orange, 
  the 
  apical 
  

   third 
  of 
  the 
  margin 
  rather 
  broadly 
  rufous, 
  below 
  which 
  to 
  the 
  anal 
  angle 
  there 
  

   is 
  a 
  rather 
  broad 
  marginal 
  white 
  band, 
  narrowly 
  black 
  on 
  the 
  margin, 
  in 
  which, 
  

   at 
  the 
  anal 
  angle, 
  is 
  a 
  black 
  spot 
  ; 
  beyond 
  the 
  tail 
  is 
  another 
  black 
  spot 
  crowned 
  

   with 
  a 
  brown 
  bar, 
  and 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  anal 
  spot 
  by 
  two 
  narrow 
  dark 
  brown 
  

   bars, 
  and 
  two 
  smaller 
  black 
  spots 
  beyond, 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  which 
  has 
  a 
  narrow 
  brown 
  

   bar 
  above 
  it 
  ; 
  above 
  the 
  spots 
  and 
  bars 
  and 
  extending 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  apex 
  are 
  a 
  

   row 
  of 
  lunular 
  white 
  markings, 
  edged 
  narrowly 
  with 
  brown, 
  and 
  towards 
  the 
  

   middle 
  an 
  indistinct 
  V-shaped 
  white 
  line. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Upperside 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  paler 
  ; 
  the 
  blue 
  area 
  on 
  the 
  

   posterior 
  wings 
  is 
  narrower 
  and 
  greyer, 
  with 
  a 
  submarginal 
  row 
  of 
  five 
  ill-defined 
  

   black 
  spots, 
  the 
  middle 
  and 
  anal 
  spots 
  being 
  the 
  largest. 
  

  

  Underside 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  posterior 
  wmgs 
  paler 
  and 
  yellower. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Kina 
  Balu, 
  N. 
  Borneo 
  (Whitehead). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collections 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Whiteliead 
  (type) 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Grose-Smitb. 
  

  

  In 
  some 
  specimens 
  the 
  transverse 
  grey 
  line 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  underside 
  of 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  wings 
  is 
  altogether 
  obsolete. 
  

  

  VOL. 
  III., 
  JtTLT, 
  1902. 
  3 
  T 
  

  

  