3894.] L. do Niceville — Butterfiles from the tndo- Malayan reylon. o 



divided by a higbly irregular blackish, fascia which is broken at the third 

 median nervule ; an indistinct ochreous cloud across and beyond the end 

 of the cell ; some whitish spots on the margin towards the apex. 

 Underside, both tulngs with a highly irregular nai'row discal brown 

 line extending across the surface, commencing above the anal angle of the 

 hind wing and ending in a rather broad dark fascia at the costa of the fore- 

 wing. Foreiving whitish, the inner margin very broadly extending half 

 way across the discoidal cell pale ochreous ; an oblique brown band across 

 the middle of the cell, a short one at the end of the cell; the white 

 band of the upperside indistinctly defined, but the two black spots 

 divided by the first median nervule distinct but smaller than on the 

 upperside. Hindioing whitish mottled and clouded with pale ochreous- 

 brown ; an oval conspicuous brown spot in the middle of the cell placed 

 against the subcostal nervure. Female shaped and marked precisely as 

 in the male, and can only be distinguished therefrom by the stouter 

 abdomen and the structure of the forelegs. 



Nearest to H. schoenhergi, Staudinger,* from South-East Borneo, 

 from which it appears to difEer in the forewing in the discal white band 

 being broader and continuous throughout, in H. schoenhergi it is broken 

 up into a double series of spots, the outer series is white, the inner 

 pale ochreous ; in the hindwing the discal white band in H. loringondani 

 is placed much farther from the outer margin than in H. sclioeribergi, 

 and the black fascia it bears is strongly broken and dislocated in the 

 middle, while in H. scJioenhergi the white discal band approaches much 

 nearer the margin, and the black fascia across the band is continuous 

 throughout and divides the band nearly equally ; lastly, there is a small 

 round black spot in the middle of the first median interspace in 

 H. schoenhergi which is wholly wanting in H, pringondani. 



Described from one male and two females received from Mr. H. 

 Fruhstorfer, to whose courtesy I am indebted for a copy of his descrip- 

 tion of the species, which reached me just in time to enable me to sub- 

 stitute his name for the one I had proposed for this interesting Herona. 



4. Herona sumatrana, Moore, Plate III, Fig. 7, $ . 

 IT. sumatrana, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., 1881, p. 308. 

 Habitat: N.-E. Sumatra. 

 Expanse: cf, 3'0 to 3-1 ; ?, 3*1 to 3-4 inches. 



* Herona schoenhergi, Staudinger, Iris, vol. iii, p. 337, n. 3, pi. iif, fig. 3 (1890) ; 

 vol. iv, p. 84 (1891). The figure is probably taken from a female specimen. This 

 may be the species referred to by Mr. W. Doherty in Journ. A. S. B., vol. Iviii, 

 pt. 2, p. 122 (1889) thus : — " EiUhalia {Felderia) macnairi. Distant, is mimicked by 

 a new and remarkable species of Herona (F) of which both sexes were taken by nie 

 in Borneo, and are now in Mr. Neunioegen's possession." 



