ASYMMETRY OF MARKINGS IN THE UMANIIDM. 

 BT G. C. GRIFFITHS, F.E.S. 



In examining recently a considerable number of specimens of 

 Jlraniidce, particularly U.fulgens and U. Sloanus, I have been struck 

 by a peculiarity which I do not remember to have seen mentioned in 

 any of the literature relating to that singular group. We find as an 

 almost invariable rule in the Lepidoptera that the markings of the 

 right wings of a specimen have their exact counterpart in those of 

 the left, but, as far as my material goes, I find that in the two species 

 above referred to a perfectly evenly marked individual is the exception, 

 not the rule : the metallic markings of both fore- and hind-wings 

 being nearly always asymmetrical. The same peculiarity obtains in 

 the nearly allied U. Leilus, and there is a similar irregularity in the 

 black spots which occur upon the brilliant glowing patch on the hind- 

 wings of U. Bhipheus, also in a smaller degree in some of the black 

 spots of Nyctalemon Orontes, 



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 December, 1893. 



NOTE ON A SPECIES OF LAMPIDES, 



RECENTLY DESCRIBED BY MR. DE NICEVILLE, and DESCRIPTION 



OF A NEW AE HO PAL A FROM BORNEO. 



by hamilton h. deuce, f.z.s., f.e.s. 

 Lampides c^rulea. 

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

 Lampides bocJiides, de Niceville, Journ. B. Nat. Hist. Soc, 1891, p. 

 367, pi. E, fig. 15, c?. 



Mr. de Niceville has lately described and figured a butterfly under 

 the name of L. hochides, which, on careful examination, proves to be 

 the C. ccerulea described by Mr. Herbert Druce in 1873. 



We possess a J* collected in Elopura, N. Borneo, by Mr. Fryer, 

 which I have compared with the type (now in Messrs. Godraan and 

 Salvin's collection) and found to be identical. 



The good figure and clear description given by Mr. de Niceville at 

 once prove that he is dealing with the insect referred to by Mr. Druce. 

 Mr. de IViceville has himself (Butt. India, iii, p. 161) expressed the 

 opinion that without reference to the type of the species, it would be 

 impossible to exactly determine it, but has apparently described his 

 hochides without having done so. Mr. Druce's description is correct, 

 so far as it goes : " Upper-side bright morpho-blue," which can scarcely 

 be said of any other of the group. 



