1893. J genus of saiyrid butterflies. 3 



3. Erites medura, Horsfield. 



Hijpparchia medura, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, pi. v, figs. 8, 8a, female 

 (1829) ; Erites medura, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, vol. i, p. 236 (1883) ; 

 id , Pagenstecher, Jahr. des Nass. Vereins fur Natur., vol. xliii, p. 96, n. 15 (1890) ; 

 E. medura, var. ochreana, Staudinger, Iris, vol. ii, p. 38 (1889) ; E. ochreana, Senrper, 

 Schmett. Philipp. Inseln, p. 326, n. 497 (1892); Satyrus (Erites) madura (sis), 

 Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 392, n. 47 (1851) ; Erites madura, Horsfield 

 and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 229, n. 484 (1857) ; id., Hewitson, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. viii, p. 145 (1865) ; id., Butler, Cat. Diurn. 

 Lep. B. M., Satyridse, p. 146, n. 1 (1868). 



Habitat : Java (one female, Horsfield collection in the British Museum) ; 

 East Java (Pagensteclier') ; Palawan, Philippines 'Staudinger). 



Mr. Hewitson (1. c.) describes a variety of this species as follows : — 

 " Male and female. With five ocelli on the anterior wing, one large 

 and four small. Sumatra ; Singapore." This almost certainly equals 

 E. angularis, Moore, which undoubtedly occurs in the Malay Peninsula, 

 and also in Sumatra, as Dr. L. Martin, of Deli, Sumatra, informs me. 



Mr. Hewitson also describes another variety thus : — " Male and 

 female. With the five ocelli of the anterior wing small and of equal size, 

 Singapore ; Sarawak." This can only refer to E elegans, which cer- 

 tainly occurs in Borneo, bat very doubtfully in Singapore, at any rate 

 it is not recorded from thence by Mr. Distant in " Rhopalocera Malay- 

 ana," nor have I seen a specimen from any part of the Malay Penin- 

 sula. 



4. Eeites Argentina, Butler. 



E. argentina, Butler, Cat. Diurn. Lep. B. M., Satyridse, p. 188, n. 5, pi. v, fig. 8, 

 female (1868) ; id., Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1873, p. 340, n. 1 ; id., Distant, 

 Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xix, p. 48, n. 21 (1887). 



Habitat : Labuan, an island off the N.-W. coast of Borneo 

 (Butler, in coll. British Museum) ; Borneo (Druce and Distant) ; Borneo ; 

 Malacca (Staudinger) ; S.-E. Borneo (collection de Niceville). 



Unfortunately I possess no specimen of E. medura ; but comparing 

 the figures of E. medura and E. argentina, both taken from female 

 specimens, and a single male of the latter in my collection, the only 

 point of difference I can discover between them is that E. medura 

 lacks a small ocellus in the second median interspace of the forewing 

 which is present in E. argentina. 



5. Erites angularis, Moore. 



E. angularis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 825 ; id., Distant, Eliop. 

 Malay., p. 46, n. 1, pi. v, fig. 3, male (1882) ; id., Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, vol. i, p. 236, n. 229, pi. xvi, fig. 50, female (18S3). 



Habitat : Taoo plateau, 3,000 — 5,000 feet, Upper Tenasserim 



