196 MESSES. H. J. ELWES AND JAMES EDWAEDS : 



6 (3). Hind wing below with a feeble purple suffusion on its basal half. 



Upper edge of lower lobe of clasp serrate ; cedeagus-guards smooth 



on the edges purpurascens, n. sp. 



7 (2). Fore wing with the pale spot in cell 2 large, wider than high. Male 



genitalia as in iapis vulso, Mab. 



8 (1). No cell-spot on the fore wing. Hind wing below with two minute 



white points on the disc, one each in cells 2 and 3 binotatus, n. sp. 



! Lophoides iapis. (Plate XXIV. figs. 44, 44 a.) 



Isoteinon iapis, de Niceville, Jour. Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 213., pi. E. fig. 9, <S ; Watson, 

 Hesp. Ind. p. 86. 



Hab. Johore, Malay Peninsula ; Mergui Archipelago {fide de Niceville) ; Pulo Laut, 

 Borneo ; Perak (Doherty) ; Banguey (coll. Staudinger). 



Lophoides obscura. 

 Isma obscura, Distant, Rhop. Mai. p. 386, pi. xxxv. fig. 19 (1886). 



We are indebted to Messrs. Godman and Salvin for the opportunity to critically 

 examine the type of this species, which is from Singapore ( Wallace). 



! Lophoides purpurascens, n. sp. (Plate XVIII. figs. 26 c?, 27 $ ; Plate XXIV. 

 figs. 45, 45 a.) 



Distinguished from L. iapis by the purple suffusion of the basal half of the hind 

 wing below. 



Expanse 31 mm. 



Hab. Pulo Laut, Borneo (Doherty). 



Described from three males and one female in coll. Elwes. 



! Lophoides vulso, Mab. 



Pamphila vulso, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvii. p. 55 (1893). 



Hab. West Java (Nepers) ; Java (Fruhstorfer) ; Bali (Doherty) ; Selesseh, Sumatra 

 (Martin). 



Lophoides binotatus, n. sp. (Plate XVIII. fig. 28, $ .) 



2 . TJpperside dark brown : fore wing with five hyaline white spots, one about one and 

 a half times as high as wide in cell 2, one less than half the size of the former in cell 3, 

 one very small in cell 4, and two small and punctiform, one each in cells 6 and 7, and a 

 small white spot next the upper edge of vein 1 a near the middle ; hind wing with an 

 indistinct pale point on the disc, coinciding with that in cell 3 on the underside. 

 Underside brown : fore wing darker on the disc, with a suffused whitish spot near the 

 middle of cell la, and the hyaline spots as on the upperside; hind wing with two 



