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14. CYANIRIS CAMENiE, n. sp., PI. 0, Fig. 22, $. 

 Habitat ; Perak, Malay Peninsula ; N.-E. Sumatra. 

 Expanse : #, l'l to 1*6 inches. 



Desceiption : Male. Uppeeside, both wings rather pale shining 

 blue, of a rather more purple shade than in C. corythus, de Niceville 

 (ante. No. 10). Forewing with a narrow outer black border, about 1 

 mm. broad at the apex, fining away to almost nothing at the anal 

 angle ; the middle of the disc in some specimens with a sprinkling of 

 white scales. Hindwing with the costa white, spreading more or less 

 on to the disc, sometimes reaching the second median nervule, some- 

 times ending about the discoidal nervule ; an anteciliary black thread. 

 Cilia of the hindwing broad and pure white ; of the forewing 

 narrower, white at the anal angle, becoming dusky towards the apex. 

 Undeeside, both wings white faintly tinted with blue ; all the spots 

 small, prominent, and fuscous ; an anteciliary black thread. Forewing 

 with a fine line on the disco-cellular nervules ; a discal series of six 

 spots, usually placed somewhat in echelon, sometimes forming a 

 straight line divided only by the veins, the anteriormost spot shifted 

 inwardly towards the base of the wing ; a marginal series of six linear 

 spots. Hindwing with a basal series of three spots ; a fine disco- 

 cellular line ; the usual irregular discal series of spots , and a 

 marginal series of eight spots, the three at the anal angle smaller than 

 the rest and placed very close together. 



Nearest to C. lanka, Moore, from Ceylon, with which it agrees abso- 

 lutely on the underside. On the upperside it differs in its much lighter 

 (more blue, less purple) coloration, in having always more or less 

 white irroration apically on the hindwing, usually on the disc of the 

 forewing, and the forewing having a distinct black border, in C. lanka 

 there is an anteciliary thread only. 



This species appears to be the commonest of the genus occurring in 

 the mountains of N.-E. Sumatra, being found also in the Malay 

 Peninsula. I have diagnosed it from a very large series. It is 

 probably a local race of C. ccelestina, Kollar, from the Western 

 Himalayas. 



