98 A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO. 
318. Lycaenopsis delapra, sp. n. 
Mate. Upperside. Dark fuscous with discal region light 
green-blue. Hore-wing: the blue discal patch reaches from 
inner margin upwards to median nervure, and beyond third 
median nervule (but not in cell) to sub-costal nervure where 
it merges into the fuscous border, thus leaving a broad, even— 
except for abrupt interruption at end of cell—fuscous border 
from base through cell along costa and hind-margin. Hind- 
wing: broader fuscous margin from base along costa and 
hind-margin, shghtly narrower along the inner margin enclos- 
ing a small discal patch of ‘light green-blue scales. Under- 
side. Grey-white. Pore-wing ; costal, apical and upper hind- 
marginal region grey, remainder lighter. A slender fuscous 
line closing cell, a “regular post-discal series of five internervular 
fuscous spots, the upper three very small (in another example 
these are obsolescent) ; no spot below the first median nervule ; 
an outer border composed ‘of lunular line, subterminal line of 
transverse spots and thin dark anteciliary line. /Hind-wing: 
grey-white. Two very dark sub-basal spots, one below costal 
nervure and the other in cell; a slender line closing cell; a post- 
discal series of 8 spots, the first of which is large and dark and 
immediately below the costa, the second smaller and hghter— 
below it, the third small and shifted outwards together w vith the 
fourth and fifth, the sixth larger and shifted in, the seventh 
shifted out and the eighth well in on.the inner margin: an outer 
border of continuous lunular line followed by subterminal line 
of dark transverse spots and thin ante-ciliary line. Cilia 
fuscous. Antennae black, ringed with white. Head, thorax 
and abdomen above black-fuscous, below whitish. 
Ezp. al. 29 mm. 
Type. Male. Matang Road, near Kuching, Sarawak (Sar. 
Mus.). 
A second example (the only other known)! from Mt. Matang, 
Sarawak. This last measures 35 mm, across the wings. 
Fore-wings pointed as in LL. matanga, Chapman. ‘The 
curious light green-blue of the upperside and the sharp inter- 
ruption of fuscous border at the end of cell, give this species an 
appearance very distinct from any other Bornean or Indian 
Lycaenopsid. 
1. I am inclined to think that Dr. Chapman has described & figured 
two distinct species under the name matanga, although he notices no differences 
in the appendages. His description of a specimen with greenish-blue in fore- 
wing, extending beyond the cell, & of diminished markings on the unders‘de of 
fore-wing, agrees well with my delapra, as does his fig. 1, which however is in 
no way like ‘the co- type returned to me by Dr. Chapman. The six matanga, 
while agreeing well with one another, differ consistently on both upper & underside 
from the two delapra. I suggest that on comparison of all the specimens, my 
_ delapra will prove to be the same as the type of matanga, Chapman (now in the 
British Museum ) and that the co-type of matanga, Chapman, will have to be 
regarded as a separate species under a new name, 
Jour. Straits Branch 
