576 ME. H. H. DEUCE ON BORNEAN LTC^NID.E. [June 18, 



NiPHANDA, Moore. 



NiPHANDA EETER, sp. 11. (Plate XXXH. fig. 12 c5' •) 



c? . Upperside shining dark violet as in M. cymbia, de Nicev., 

 which it closely reserables. Underside : ground pure white with 

 dark brown spots on the fore wing as in that species, but larger 

 and more distinct, especially that one which lies beyond the basal 

 streak, which is nearly twice as large as in li. cymhia. Hind wing 

 with the spots arranged as in N. cymhia, but much larger ; and 

 without the brown mottling of that species. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Kina Balu ( Waterstr.). Mus. Staud. and Druce. 



At first sight the underside of this insect presents a very 

 different appearance from N. cymhia, but on closer examination 

 the spots appear to be similarly placed. The absence of all 

 mottlings from the hind wing and the much larger spots, together 

 with the pure white ground, should distinguish it. 



Ltjthkodes, gen. nov. 



Allied to Talicacia, Moore, from which it differs by the costal 

 nervure of the fore wing being bent towards the first subcostal 

 nervule, but entirely free for its whole length — not anastomosed 

 as in that genus — and reaching the margin considerably before the 

 apex of the cell. 



Type Polyommatus cleotas, Guer. 



I find on bleaching the wings that the species referred by 

 myself (P. Z. S. 1891, p. 358, & 1892, p. 436) and others to 

 Talicacia are not strictly congeneric and present the differences 

 in neuration described above. All the species of Luthrodes are 

 tailless excepting L. mindora, Peld., which is tailed like J. nyseus, 

 Guer. 



Luthrodes miwdora. 



Jjifcoena mindora, Feld. Eeise Nov., Lep. ii. p. 277, t. 34. figs. 9, 10 

 (1865). 



Cupido aruana, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 349 (nee Feld.). 



Talicada mindora. Distant & Pryer, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, 

 ser. 5, vol. xix. p. 267 (1887). 



Labuan {Low) ; Sandakan (Pryer). 



The two specimens which I have seen from Borneo are now in 

 Messrs. Godman and Salvin's coDection. They were incorrectly 

 referred to L. arruana, Peld., which has larger spots below and is 

 W'ithout tails. They are identical M'ith specimens from Mindoro 

 before me. Of course in the general arraugement of the nervules 

 Lutlirodes scarcely differs from Lyccena, Cyaniris, and others, but 

 the peculiarity of coloration seems to suggest a distinctive feature, 

 being intermediate between those genera and Talicada. 



