189-1.] L. de Niceville — Butterjiles from the Lido-Malayan region. 43 



Battak mountains, deposited in Dx\ Martin's collection. I have taken 

 its name from Nanioe Oekor and Namoe Blanka, two Battak villages. 



37. SiNTHUSA MALiKA, Horsfield, Plate V, Figs. 18, c? ; 6, $ . 

 Thecla malila, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co., p. 90, n. 22 (1829) ; Dipsas malika, 

 Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. Co., vol. i, p. 37, n. 43, pi. i«, fig. 5, male 

 (1857) ; Myrina malika, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep., p. 37, n. 34, pi. xv, figs. 41-43, 

 male (1863) ; Sithon malika, Kheil, Rhop. Nias., p. 32, n. 112 (1884) ; Sintkusa malika, 

 de Niceville, Butt, of India, vol. iii, p. 487 (1890) ; Si^itMisa adnata, Distant, Rhop. 

 Malay., p. 461, n. 2, pi. xliv, fig. 20, female (1886) ; id., de Niceville, Butt, of India, 

 vol. iii, p. 488 (1890). 



Habitat : Java {Horsfield, Moore, Heioitson, coll. de Niceville) ; 

 Sumatra (Heivitson, coll. de Niceville) ; Nias (Kheil) ; Penang (Distant, 

 coll. de Niceville) ; Perak (coll. de Niceville). 



Expanse : d", I'OO to 1-15 ; ? , 1*2 inches. 



Description : Male. Uppeeside, forewing deep indigo-blue, viewed 

 from the side iindescent rich ultramarine-blue ; the costa and outer 

 margin narrowly black, broadly black at the apex. Hindioing much 

 lighter blue than on the forewing, not iridescent, the costa broadly 

 black, the abdominal margin broadly fuscous. Cilia of the forewing 

 black, of the hindwing pui'e white, except at the apex of the wing, 

 where they are fuscous. Underside, 60^/4 wings white with a bluish 

 shade, the markings brownish-ochreous. Foreioiug with the costa 

 narrowly, the apex widely, the outer margin fining away to 

 nothing at the inner angle, brownish-ochreous ; an oblong broad spot at 

 the end of the discoidal cell ; a discal macular band consisting of six 

 increasing spots, the band strongly broken in the middle, the three 

 posterior portions of the band shifted towards the base of the wing ; 

 an obscure submarginal macular fascia from the submedian nervure, 

 becoming lost anteriorly in the dark apical area. Sindioing with a broad 

 oblong spot at the end of the cell ; eight small discal spots arranged 

 in pairs irregularly across the wing from the costa to above the 

 anal angle ; a round black spot in the first median interspace on the 

 margin ; a black spot in the submedian interspace sprinkled with 

 metallic-blue scales ; a double series of small lunulas on the outer 

 margin between the spot in the first median interspace and the apex 

 of the wing, obsolete in a Javan specimen ; the small anal lobe black, 

 crowned with metallic-blue scales. Cilia of the forewing brownish- 

 ochreous ; of the hindwing white, with a fine black anteciliary thread. 

 Tail white with a black central line. The tuft of hairs attached 

 to the inner margin of the forewing towards the base and turned under 

 and upwards, large and black. Female. Uppeeside, hoth ivings shining 

 haii'-browu. Forewing unmarked. Hindwing with an outer white area , 



