22 L. de 'NiceviWe—Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region. [No. J, 



Borneo, the type being irom. Sarawak, and in my collection are three 

 males and a female from S.-E. Borneo. Mr. Distant records L. telesia 

 fi'om Sumatra, but this species is probably the one meant. 



18. Laxita lyncestis, n. sp., Plate 11, Fig. 8, c? . 



Habitat : Malay Peninsula, 



Expanse : (?, 1'7 inches. 



Description: Male. Uppeeside, both wings and cilia fuscous. Fore- 

 wing with a band of crimson on the outer margin, wide on the costa, 

 fining away to nothing at the anal angle ; a broad oblique discal bluish- 

 white band, commencing anteriorly Just anterior to the lower discoidal 

 nervule, ending just before the anal angle on the submedian nervure, 

 notched inwardly at the origin of the second median nervule, anteriorly 

 inwardly bounded by the disco-cellular nervules. Hindiving with the 

 usual shining pale fuscous costal area beai-ing the " male-mark " of the 

 genus. Underside, foreioing differs from L. orplma, Boisduval, in having 

 numerous metallic blue markings on the disc, in the present species 

 there ai'e two such spots placed outwardly against the two inner black 

 spots in the median interspaces, and tlu'ee such spots placed outwardly 

 against the three black spots beyond the outer end of the cell, with 

 a series of five others beyond extending across the disc ; in L. orphna 

 all these blue spots are lacking. Hindioing as in L. orphna.* 



This species is not included in Mr. Distant's " Rhopalocera Mala- 

 yana." On the upperside it differs from two male specimens of 

 L. orphna in my collection from S.-E. Borneo in its smaller size, brighter 

 crimson outer border to the forewing on the upperside, and narrower 

 discal bluish- white band, which latter in L. orphna is not inwardly 

 notched below the cell. 



Described from a single specimen in my collection from Perak, 



There is one species of Laxita which I am still unable to identify. 

 This is the butterfly figured by Hewitson in " The Genera of Diurnal 

 Lipidoptera," vol. ii, p. 422, n. 7, pi. Ixix, figs. 7, male; Q, female (185J), 

 as " i^ jjiesis orp/wia, Boisduval," but re-named " Taxila'' ^am'to, by Hewit- 

 son, in his "Exotic Butterflies," vol. ii, Taxila pi. i, text (1861). 

 Mr. Distant in his " Rhopalocera Malayana," p. 192, n. 5, pi. xviii, 

 tig. 14, female (1883), describes and figures an " Abisara" tanita. This 

 female specimen does not at all agree with Hewitson's figure of the 



* The differences pointed out above on the underside of the forewing will be 

 at once observed by comparing the original figure of X. orphna in Boisduval's 

 *• Species General," vol. i, pi. xxi, fig. 4, female (1886), with my figure of L. lyncestis. 



