184 W. Doherty — The Butterjiies of Sumha and Samhawa, Sfc. [No. 2, 



rufous tinge. The markings consist of slightly darker transverse bands, 

 bordered by straight white lines, which are broad and very conspicuous. 

 Forewing with one of these across the cell, with no markings above it 

 costally, one discal from the costa to the middle median, then dislocated 

 inwardly and continued obliquely to the lower median, below which the 

 wing is white with a single dark streak in it. Hindwing with the bands 

 confused and broken. Both wings have the cilia whitish, a marginal 

 dark line, a catenulated line of dark streaks in a white ground, and 

 behind this a line of very conspicuous black lunules, large aud lanceo- 

 late on the hindwing ; behind these are white lunules which extend 

 far into the disc. There is no trace of ocelli, or of metallic scales. 



The female is also blue, and has the outer two-thirds of the fore- 

 wing black above. 



Sumba, confined to the mountain-forests above 2000 feet. A 

 beautiful and conspicuous species. I have not examined the prehensors, 

 but the species is so unlike all others that its identification must be 

 easy. In the figure the white markings of the underside have been 

 made too narrow and inconspicuous, 



86. Lampides masu, n. sp. PI. II, fig. 11. 



Male, above, bluish-white, whiter than L. celianus, a very slender 

 marginal black line nearly obsolete apically ; hindwing with this line 

 more distinct ; a broken, catenulated, submarginal dark fascia, double 

 at the anal angle, obsolete apically, with a good-sized dark spot in the 

 lower-median space. Below pale brown, the bands scarcely perceptibly 

 darker, bordered by white lines, of which the basal pair on the hindwing 

 are slender ; on the forewing one band crosses the cell, one is beyond it 

 from the costa to the middle median vein ; these two ai'e continued in 

 common by another nearly to the hind-margin. On the hindwing the 

 bands are irregular, extending further outwardly than in L. anops 

 (in which the submarginal lunules greatly encroach on the disc), acutely 

 angled in the interno-median space. Both wings have three conspicu- 

 ous white submarginal lines enclosing two lines of spots, the outer 

 linear, catenulated, slender, the inner large, black and conspicuous, 

 tranverse and wholly surrounded with white on the forewing, lanceolate 

 and irregular on the hindwing. Hindwing with a large subanal ocellus 

 with a narrow orange iris, surmounted by a black and a white lunule ; 

 a small similar anal ocellus ; both are touched with metallic. 



This species is very like the Amboina female figured by Cramer 

 as aratus, and is probably a local variety of that species. The female 

 of L. mastt has the black border of the forewing broad and serrate api- 

 cally, the inner cordate spots of the hindwing are large and black. The 



