500 Mr. H. II. Druce on new 



m this mass and outside it part of a poljpide. The tentacles 

 {t.) are cut through diagonally aud the stomach {st.) haa 

 cilia and evidently the polypide was in vigour. 



Fig, 2. Ditto. X 720. Part of the same mass more magnified. 



Fig. 3. Ditto. X 250. Mass showing one body with numerous cells 

 close together aud with a small nucleus {b 1) and another 

 {b 2) in which they are much larger, further apart, and with 

 a much larger nucleus. This aud other parts figured were 

 examined with a j\ immersion and reduced. 



Fip. 4. Ditto. X 25. Section of the end of a branch in which there 

 are two zooecia (c, d) almost filled up with testes, and zooecia 

 {a, e, g) with several of the bodies described. 



Fig. 5. Ditto. X 25. Section of the end of a branch in which there 

 is one embryo (c) and several of the bodies («, e, h, i). 



Fig. 6. Ditto. X 85. Mass with the early stage represented b_v two 

 groups of cells near the middle, and also other small bodies. 



Figs. 7, 8. Ditto. X 720. The early groups of cells more magnified. 



Fig. 9. Ditto, x 720. Body with cilia. 



Fig, 10. Ditto, x 85. Mass in zooecium with some of the bodies 

 separated as an independent group. Muscles of the zooecium 

 shown at the side. 



Fig. 11. Ditto, x 250. Testis nearly filling up a zoecium (see fig. 4). 



LII. — Descriptions of some apparently new Butterflies from 

 Borneo and one from Africa. Bj HAMILTON H. DruCE, 

 F.L.S. (fcc. 



Lycaenidae. 



Lyca^nopsis shelfordii, de Nicdv. 



Lyccenopsis shelfordii, de NictSv. J. B. N. 11. S. xiv. p. 245, pi. FF, 

 fig. 7, c? (1902). 



? . Upperside : fore wing white, witli the costa, apex, and 

 termen broadly smoky brown, the basal and discal area 

 suffused with pale opalescent pearly blue. A small brown 

 spot closing the cell. Hind wing pale smoky brown, with 

 the discal area whitish and the base slightly suffused with 

 opalescent blue ; an indistinct submarginal row of lunules. 

 Underside as male, but ground-colour paler and spots rather 

 larger. 



JIab. Borneo. Batu Lawi Expedition {J. C. Moulton). 



The female described above, together with a male captured 

 on the same expedition whose genitalia Dr. Chapman has 

 kindly examined and conlirmed as L. shelfordii, will be 

 placed in the British Museum. The male ^\■as taken on 

 May 20th, the female on May 2 1st. 



