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63. Rapala varuna, Horsf. 



Samba, Sambawa, mountains. I also observed a species of Sin- 

 thusa* in Sambawa, but no specimens were taken. 



Subfamily LYGMNINM. 



Cyaniris akasa, Horsf. 

 Sambawa, 4-5000 feet, rare. 



64. Cyaniris puspa, Horsf. 



Sumba, Sambawa, mountains. The white area is larger than in 

 Indian specimens, extending over three or four spaces and into the cell. 

 The female has the white areas very large and not marked with blue. 



65. ZizERA pygmj;a, Snellen. 

 Sumba, Sambawa. 



QQ. ZiZERA LYSizONB, Snellen. 



Sumba, Sambawa. Another Zizera occurred in Sumba. 



* I append the description of a rare Javanese species of this genus. 



SiNTHUSA ASPRA, n. Sp. 



Male, above, forewing with the costa and the oater margin nan-owly black, the 

 base as far as the end of the cell, and more especially the basal half of the interne - 

 median space to the hind margin, light violet-blue ; a diffused submarginal macular 

 band of the same colour ; the disc and the outer half of the hind-margin black, deep 

 blue in some lights, with a few scattered light-blue scales. Hindwing violet-blue, 

 (much richer than on the forewing) from the lower subcostal to the submedian 

 vein ; above the lower subcostal vein a line of pale blue scales ; the abdominal border 

 widely silvery-whitish. Below, white, the spots chiefly very small, black, not 

 annular as in all the allied species ; a broad dark fascia across the end of the cell of 

 the forewing ; six discal spots, the upper three small, in an oblique line, the lower 

 three larger, in a transverse line nearer the base ; a slender marginal dark line, cilia 

 dark. Hindwing with the cell-fascia double ; eight discal spots, the fifth evanescent 

 and nearer the base, the eighth elongate and conspicuous ; a large black spot in the 

 lower median space ; in the next a blue area adjoining the black lobe ; beyond this 

 a short black and blue marginal line ; tail chiefly black. The prehensors resemble 

 those of Deudorix. 



The hindwing is angled at the end of the middle median vein ; there is a short 

 tail and a very small but distinct lobe. The venation and sex-marks are as in 

 other species of Sinthusa. The species has no near allies. 



Rare on Arjuno, Eastern Java, taken at 5000 feet in a flock of Cyaniris akasa 

 from which it was indistinguishable when settled. The genus is usually mimetic. 

 S. nasaka, Moore, strongly resembles ITypolyccena erylus, and I have several times 

 mistaken 8. virgo, Elwes, for a Gyanirir,. 



I have given Mr. de Nioeville the type of this species. The specific name means 

 white in modern Greek. 



