582 ME. n. H. DRUCE ox BORXEAX LTCENID.T. [Juiie 18, 



Lamptdes c^rulea. (Plate XXXII. fig. 19 $ .) 



Cupido Kerulea, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 349, pi. xxxii. fig. 6. 



Lampides cterulea, H. H. Druce, Ent. Mo. Mag. ser. 2, vol. v. 

 p. 9 (1894). 



Lampides bochides, de Nicev. J. B. Xat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 367, 

 pi. F. fig. 15. 



Kina Balu ( Watastr.) ; Elopura {Pnjer) ; Labuan {Low) ; S.E. 

 Borneo, near Banjarmasin ( Wahnes). 



Two specimens before me, which I take to be females of this 

 species, are paler shining blue on the upperside and the outer 

 margins of both wings are evenly black bordered ; the apex of the 

 fore wing widest. On the underside the ground-colour is paler 

 than the male, and the bands, which are arranged exactly as in the 

 male, are wider and pure white. 



LaHPIDES ABDUi. 



Lampides abdul, Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 456, pi. iliv. fig. 22 

 (1886) ; Distant & Pryer, Ann. & Mag. Xat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xix. 

 p. 267 (1887). 



Sandakau (Pryer). 



Mr. de Mceville states that this species belongs to this group 

 (Butt. Ind. etc. iii. p. 166, 1890). I have not seen a specimen. 



Group II. 

 Lampides osias. 



Pleheius osias, Eober, Iris, i. p. 56, pi. v. fig. 17 (1886). 



Lyccena amphyssiiui, Stand. Lep. Palawan, p. 100, t. i. fig. 4, 2 

 (1889). 



Kudat ; Labuan (Loiv) ; Sibutu (Everett). 



Dr. Staudinger has kindly sent me the types of his L. amphyssina, 

 which do not differ in the slightest from L. osias, which, as has 

 been already pointed out by Herr Semper \ must be sunk as a 

 synonym '. 



' Schmett. Phil. Insel. p. 179 (1889). 



^ We possess a good series of a species belonging to this group, which I can 

 find nowhere described, and propoBe to call it L. emetallicus, sp. n. 



Allied to L. amphissa, Feld., cJ $ ■ Upperside as that species. Underside : 

 ground-colour darker, the lines narrower and more irregular ; the ground- 

 colour between the two submarginal zigzag lines of the fore wing distinct Ij 

 darker than the rest of the wing. Hind wing : a very small orange spot close 

 to the margin, just above the submedian nervure ; the black spot between the 

 1st and 2nd median nervules only, crowned with orange and without any 

 metallic-blue scales whatever. Expanse as L. amphiissa. Batchian (Boherty). 

 Type Mus. Druce, also in Mas. S. & G. 



Allied to L. amphissa, Feld., and L. amphissina, Grose Smith ", and also to 

 L. liecianus, Rober, from which latter it differs in the arrangement of the white 

 lines in the fore wing ; but differing, so far as I know, from all others in the 

 absence of all metallic scales near the anal angle of the hind wing below. 



» L. amphissina, Grose Smith, Novitates Zoologicie, vol. i. p. 577, 1894. 

 Is not this name too near to " amphyssina " to stand ? 



