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Description ; ^ale. Upperside, loth wings shining, rather dark- 

 bloe. Foreu:lruj with the costa as far as the snbcostal neryure, the 

 apex broadly, and the outer margin less broatUv and slightly decreas- 

 ingly towards the anal angle black ; a conspicuous narrow black line 

 on the disco-cellular nervales. Rmdwing with the costa broadly 

 blackish ; the onter margin rather broadly black, with a series of six 

 bluish lunules anterior to this black border, again inwardly bounded by 

 a narrow blackish lunulated batd. U^^)EP.STDE, loth icings dead white, 

 the markings black (not foscons), rather small and very conspicuous ; 

 with the usual narrow black line defining the outer end of the cell ; 

 an anteciliary black thread. Forewmg with an outer discal curved series 

 of six small linear spots, placed transverse to the veins and not 

 in echelon ; a similar sub-marginal and marginal series, the 

 latter inconspicuous. Hindmng with the usual basal and discal spots, 

 rather small and uniform in size ; a submarginal lanulated line ; 

 and a marginal series of six oval spots placed between the veins. 



Of the known Bornean species of Cyaniris this is nearest to 

 C. plauta, H. H. Druce, which, however, I have not seen. From the 

 description and figure of that species it differs in being smaller, on 

 the upperside of the hindwing in having no white areas ; C. pla-jta 

 has a marginal series of black spots which in C. siielfordii are developed 

 into a continuous band. On the underside the coloration and mark- 

 int^s appear to be very similar in the two species. 



yix. H. H. Drace in Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1895, pp. 571-o75, 

 and 1896, p. 655, records ten species of Cyaniris from Borneo, 

 namely — (1) C. dUectissima, H. H. Druce. (2) C. puspa^ Hoi^field, 

 (?j) C. placidula, H. H. Druce, (4) C. lugra, H. H. Dmce, which 

 undoubtedly is the same species as C. musina^ Snellen, from Perak in 

 the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra and Lombok, (5) C. salma, H. H. 

 Druce, (6) C. strophis, H. H. Druce, (7) C. plauta^ H. H. Druce, 

 (8) C. ripUy H. H. Druce, (9) C. camence, de Niceville, and (10) 

 C. sonchus, H.H. Druce. Of these I possess specimens from the State 

 of Sarawak of Nos. 2, 3 and 4. I have besides (11) C. shelf ordii, 

 de Niceville, and (12) C. melcena, Doherty. Ten species are knovrn to 

 me from Sumatra, and nine from Java, so Borneo is the richest of 

 the three islands in this genus. Dr. A. G. Butler in his " List of the 

 Species of Cyanirk, a well-known Group of the Family Lycfi^inidoi" in 

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