1894.] L. do Nicevillc — BiUterjlics from the Indo-Malayan reyion. 21 



forewing with the crimson area of the same extent as in the male, bat 

 of a paler shade, bearing on the disc from the third median nervule in- 

 creasing to the costa a pale buff fascia. Hindtving paler than in the 

 male, the veins streaked more or less with crimson. Underside, both 

 wings coloured and marked much as in the male, but the crimson 

 ground-colour paler. 



The male of L. lola may at once be known from the same sex of 

 L. damajanti by the presence of the fuscous areas on the upperside of 

 both wings, the latter being " rubris, supra immaculatis ; " the female 

 may be known from that sex of L, laocoon, mihi, by the pale buff fascia 

 on the upperside of the forewing. 



Described from two males and one female in my collection. 



17. Laxita lyclene, n. sp., Plate II, Fig. 10, c?, 



Abisara telesia, Distant {nee Hewitson), Rhop. Malay., p. 449, n. 8, pi, xl, 

 figs. 2, moJe; 3, /ema?e (1886); Taxila telesia, Stdiudinger, Ex, Schmett., jj. 239, pi. 

 Ixxxvii, male (1887). 



Habitat: Malay Peninsula; N.-E. Sumatra. 



Expanse : c?, 1'75 to 1-90; $ , 1'80 to 1-90 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings fuscous. Forewing with 

 the apex broadly, decreasing to the anal angle where it ends in a 

 point, crimson, crossed by the black veins ; an oval milky- white spot 

 placed obliquely outwards across the middle of the submedian inter- 

 space, anteriorly extending slightly into the first median interspace. 

 Hindiving with the costa at the base as usual broadly pale or whitish, 

 bearing an oval flour- like ochreous " male-mark ; " the apex narrowly 

 crimson. UndePvSIDE, forewing differs from the same sex of true 

 L. telesia, Hewitson, from Borneo, in having the chrome-yellow ( Hewitson 

 calls it "rufous") apical area much reduced or obsolete; the two 

 submargiual chi-ome-yellow lunules in the median interspaces in L. telesia 

 replaced by metallic blue lunules ; and in having the discal series of 

 metallic blue spots increased from two to five or six, there being three or 

 four extra ones in the discoidal and subcostal interspaces. Hindioing 

 does not differ from that of L. telesia. Female. Upperside, hoth loings 

 as in L. telesia. Underside, hoth wings as in L. telesia. 



The male of L. lyclene may at once be known by the crimson apical 

 area on the upperside of the forewing being much larger than in L. telesia, 

 and as regards the hindwing in having the apex touched with crimson. 

 The females of the two species appear to be quite indistinguishable. 



Described from one male from Rawan in Selangore, and three 

 males and two females from Perak, both in the Malay Peninsula, and 

 numerous specimens from N.-E. Sumatra. True L, telesia occiir.s in 



