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Druce describes the species from-a male only, but the single 
female in the Sarawak Museum differs.so much from the 
female plauta that a brief description should be of interest ; 
and for this reason I prefer to keep the two species distinct 
until further evidence to the contrary is forthcoming. 
Upperside. Ground-colour of dark fuscous-brown: with 
large white discal patches, which are lightly covered with pale- 
blue iridescent scales. Fore-wing: sharply defined discal 
patch begins at base of first median nervule, extends upwards 
into outer end of cell, continuing outwards to meet third 
median nervule 4 mm. from hind-mar gin, leaving a marginal 
border of ground colour, which diffuses shghtly at inner 
margin. Hind-w ing: costal margin of ground-colour reaching 
sub-costal nervure and extending along ‘first sub- costal nervule 
towards apex; a broad hind- marginal band of ground-colour 
from a little below apex across to inner margin, occupying 
nearly a half of the wing. Hind-marginal border of inter- 
nervular dark fuscous round spots inwardly edged with a few 
light scales; remaining portion of the wing occupied by white 
discal patch. Ciha whitish. 
Underside: as in male except for the presence in the hind- 
wing of a small brown spot immediately below the outer large 
sub-costal spot; this is absent in Druce’s figure of the male. 
Exp. al. 31 mm. 
Lycaenopsis (Lycaenopsis) melaena, Doherty. 
Cyaniris melaena, Doherty, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. p. 
434, pl. CLE fig. 138, g (1889). 
Sarawak: Kuching (Sar. Mus.). 
Distribution: Southern Tenasserim, Malacca and Sumatra. 
Lycaenopsis (Lycaenopsis) tenella placidula, H. H. Druce. 
Cyaniris placidula, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 
pote, PE ON MEL fies..6,-7,.¢ and 9 (1895). 
_ Mt. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Mt. Marapok (Ind. Mus.) ; 
Kuching and Mt. Penrissen—3,500 ft. (Sar. Mus. ys 
Druce remarks that it is closely allied to (. placida; de 
Nicéville and Fruhstorfer treats it as a sub-species of placida; 
but Chapman having examined the ancillary appendages 
regards it asa local race of tenella, Miskin. 
‘Druce further observes: “ Apparently plentiful where it 
occurs. ‘There seems to be practically no variation, judging 
from the specimens I have examined.” 
There are only three examples in the Sarawak Museum, two 
from Mt. Penrissen after three weeks’ arduous collecting in 
May 1900 by Messrs. Shelford and Cox together with four or 
five native collectors and a third taken near ‘Kuching in August 
1911; so that apparently it is not very plentiful in the Sarawak 
localities. 
‘R. A. Soc., No. 69, I9II, 
