1895.] MB. H. H. DECCB ON JiOllNEAN LYC.UTID-I. o9o 



The specimens before me vary as to the exteut ot" cupreous red 

 above the subcostal nervure in the hind wing. In some examples 

 the outer half only of the costal margin is narrowly brown, in 

 others the whole margin is broadly brown from the base. Between 

 these two forms are all intermediates. 



CURETIS MALAXICA. 



Amops malai/ica, Feld. Eeise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 221, pi. xxviii. 

 fig. 18 (1865). 



Kiua Balu ( Waterstr.); S.E. Borneo, near Banjariuasiu ( Wahnes). 



A female from Kina Balu has the costal margin of the hind 

 wing very pale, almost white. 



Ileeda, Doubl. 

 Ilbbda kiana. 



Sithon kiana, Grrose 8mith, Ann. & ^lag. Xat. Hist. ser. 6. 

 vol. iii. p. 317 (1889); Whitehead, Kina Balu, p. 'tis, pi. xx. 

 tigs. 7, 8 (1893). 



Kina Balu {Everett, Whitehead, Waierstradt). 



The apparent hkeness of the underside of this Butterfly to species 

 of the genus Ilerda led me to carefully examine its ueuratiou, and 

 on bleaching specimens of both sexes I find that the neuration is 

 exactly the same as in /. epicles, Grodt. It agrees also in the 

 form of the antennae and in the absence of any secondary sexual 

 chai'acters ; the only difference that I can detect is that the terminal 

 joint of the palpus is slightly longer than in /. epicles. It has 

 been received in some numbers from Kina Balu, and is remarkably 

 different from any other species of the genus. Both sexes are 

 much aUke, the female having a rather less extensive and greyer 

 blue anal patch with larger black spots. Mr. Grose Smith has 

 kindly shown me his type. 



Dacalajs'a, Moore. 

 Dacalaha tiduea. 



Amblypodia vidura, Horsf. Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 113 (1829)'. 



lolaus vidura, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 351. 



Dacalana vidura. Distant & Pryer, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, 

 ser. 5, vol. xix. p. 268 (1887). 



Sandakan ; Elopura (Pryer) ; Trusan (Everett) ; Labuan (Low) ; 

 S.E. Borneo, near Banjarmasin (Wahaes). 



The white band crossing the wings on the underside varies 

 somewhat in width in Bornean specimens as it does in Javan. 



' Messrs. Godman and Salvin possess a male Dacalana bunnana, Moore, 

 collected in Burmah by Hume, which agrees in venation exactly with D. vidura. 

 Indeed it is very doubtful if Z>. biir/ncma can claim specific rank from that 

 species ; the upperside is certainly a darker blue colour, but the characters 

 given for the underside are valueless. Mr. H. J. Elwes gives it as a synonym 

 in his paper in the P. Z. S. 1892, on Butterflies collected by Mr. Doherty in 

 the Naga and Karen hills and Perak. 



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