20 L. de Niceville — Btttterjiies from the Indo-Malayan region, [No. 3, 



Family LEMONIID^. 

 Subfamily Nemeobiin^. 



35. Laxita laocoon, n. sp., Plate II, Fig. 0^ ? . 



Habitat : Malay Peninsula. 



Expanse : $ , 1"65 and 1"80 inches. 



Description : Female. Upperside, foreiving with the apical two- 

 thirds of the surface cinmson ; the costa and outer mai'gin very narrowly, 

 the discoidal cell not quite to its end ; a small spot in the second 

 median, and a much larger space in the first median, and almost the 

 whole of the submedian interspace, fuscous. Hindiving, shining fus- 

 cous, almost bronzy in some lights ; the veins slightly touched with 

 crimson ; an indistinct marginal crimson line. Underside, loth loings 

 marked as in L. damajanti, Felder. 



Very near to L. damajanti, Felder, of which I possess six males 

 and seven females fx-om Perak, and five males and two females from 

 N.-E. Sumatra; differing on the upperside in the crimson coloration 

 being practically confined to the apical two-thirds of the forewing instead 

 of occupying almost the entire surface of both wings. 



Desci-ibed from two examples from Perak, and one from Rawan in 

 Selangor, both in the Malay Peninsula. 



16. Laxita lola, n. sp., Plate II, Figs. 9, d" ; 7, ? . 



Hapitat : S.-E. Borneo. 



Expanse : <S, 20 and 2'2 ; $ , 21 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, forewing with the costa as far as 

 the subcostal nei'vure and the outer margin narrowly, fuscous ; the 

 apical two-thirds of the wing crimson ; the disco-cellular nervules 

 marked by a fuscous line ; the posterior half of the discoidal cell, three 

 streaks beyond the cell in the two discoidal and upper median inter- 

 spaces, a larger space in the lower median interspace, and the entire 

 area between the first median nervule and the inner margin, fuscous. 

 Uindiving with that portion of the costal area covered by the bowed- 

 out inner mai'gin of the fox'ewing pale shining fuscous, bearing the 

 usual oval ochi-eous flour-like " male-mark," the rest of the wing 

 fuscous ; the outer margin bearing an indistinct crimson line. Under- 

 side, both icings differ fi'om L. damajanti, Felder, in all the bi-illiant 

 metallic blue markings being much reduced in size, the submarginal 

 series in L. lola, in the foreiving, has almost entirely disappeared, 

 the crimson ai'ea at the apex appearing thus to be of considerably 

 greater extent ; otherwise as in that species. Female, Upperside, 



