610 MR. H. H. DEUCE ON BOENEAN LYCiENID^. [June 18, 



described species are much alike, but in the examples before me 

 do not show any variation. Dr. Staudinger has received a con- 

 siderable number of female metasuja from Ivina Balu. 



Cheritra, Moore. 

 Cheeitra ereja, var. ochracea, nov. 



Hesperia freja, Fab. Ent. Syst. iii. p. 263 (1793). 



Sithonfr'eja, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 351. 



Cheritra freja, Distant & Pryer, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, 

 vol. xix. p. ■269 (1887). 



Differs from the Continental Indian form by the whole of the 

 fore wing as well as the costal half of the hind wing below being 

 ochraceous, and by the inner black band towards the anal angle 

 being much broader and less broken. 



Sandakan (Pryer) ; Labuan (Loiv and Waterstr.) ; Sarawak, 

 S.E. Borneo. 



This apparently is the usual Bornean form of the species, as in 

 a large number of specimens before me there is no variation. 

 Mr. Distant's figure ^ of 0. freja shows a form intermediate 

 between the Indian and Bornean representatives. 



Cheritra pallida. 



Sitlion pallida, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 352, pi. xxxiii. fig. 3. 



Sithon pallida. Distant & Pryer, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, 

 vol. xix. p. 268 (1887). 



Sandakan {Pryer') ; Labuan (Loiv). 



1 have examined the type of this species and find that it is 

 nearly allied to 0. freja var. ochracea, the tails on the first median 

 nervule being broken off. It agrees in neuration exactly with 

 that species. On the upperside it can be distinguished by its rich 

 purple colour in all lights, and by the distinct and even black 

 margins. On the underside it differs from C. freja var. ochracea 

 only by the black markings being more extensive and by the 

 inner black band being situated higher up the wing. The metallic 

 blue line is placed on the black, not above it as stated in the 

 original description, and the black spot in the submedian inter- 

 space, which in C. freja and in var. ochracea is nearly obsolete, is 

 in C. pallida large and distinct. 



The type specimen, now in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's col- 

 lection, is the only specimen I have seen. 



It is, I believe, a perfectly good and distinct species. 



RiTRA, de Nicev. 

 Butt. India etc. iii. p. 411 (1890). 



ElTRA AUEEA. 



Sith^n aurea, Druce, P.Z. S. 1873, p. 352, pi. xxxiii. tig. 1. 

 Bitra avrea, de Nicev. Butt. India etc. iii. p. 411 (1890), 

 ' Ehop. Malay, pi. xx. fig. 10 (1885). 



