588 MR. H. H. DBUCE OX BORIfEAN LYC^TflDvE. [June 18, 



Ibaota nila. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 1 J •) 



Iraota nila, Distant, Ehop. Malay, p. 462, pi. xliv. fig. 24 2 

 (1886) ; de Nicev. Butt. lud. etc. iii. p. 217 (1890). 



cJ • Upperside very dark uniform purplish black ; inner margin 

 of fore wing pale brown. Both wings sparingly dusted between 

 the nervnles on the discs with bright green scales which change 

 to blue in some lights. Thorax and abdomen black, covered with 

 greenish hairs. Two tails of about equal length, tipped with 

 white, one on the submedian nervure, the other on the first 

 median nervule. Underside as male. 



Kina Balu ( Waterstr.). 



I have received several females from Kina Balu, which agree 

 well with Mr. Distant's figure of the underside, but the outer 

 margins above are very narrowly black, and the male described 

 above which is in Dr. Staudinger's collection. The male agrees in 

 neuration with the male Iraota, and has four subcostal nervules 

 like it, whilst the female has but three. The lower discoidal 

 nervule in both sexes originates from the upper discoidal, and in 

 Mr. Distant's figure is incorrectly drawn, as also are the antennae. 

 As has been pointed out by Mr. de Niceville, the name niJa has 

 already been used for a si^ecies of this genus by Kollar ; but as his 

 name is a synonym of /. timoleon, iStoU, it may be used for 

 Mr. Distant's species. 



SuBENDRA, Moore. 



SUBENDRA PALOWNA. 



Amhlypodia paloivna. Stand. Iris, ii. p. 131 (1889). 

 Amhliipoilia amisena, Druce (nee Hew.), P. Z. S. 1873, p. 354. 



Kina Balu {Everett) ; Borneo {Low). 



I have compared these specimens with the type of Dr. Staud- 

 inger's A. palowna from the island of Palawan, and find that they 

 are identical. A. paloivna can be distinguished from A. amisena. 

 Hew., by the hind wing being notched only, in both sexes — 

 A. amisena possessing one tail iu the male and two in the female. 

 The underside of the hind wing in A. amisena is thickly sprinkled 

 with green scales towards the anal angle, whilst in A. palowna 

 these scales are generally entirely absent. I am inclined to think, 

 however, that \\lien a larger series of these butterflies can be 

 examined, these characters will be found to be insufficient to distin- 

 guish the two species individually or from Horsfield's A. vivarna 

 from Java. 



Messrs. Godman and Salvin possess one female, obtained by 

 Mr. Low, on which the purple gloss is entirely absent. 



Abhopala, Bolsd. 



All the species here included have, with the exception of the 

 well-known A. centaurus, Yah., and A. apidanus, Cr., been care- 

 fully compared with the actual type specimens, and besides these 



