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1, Neopithecops horsfieldi, * n. sp, (Tab. XXIL, fig, 15 J.) 



Male. Wings above dark purplish ; anterior wings with the apes and outer margin distinctly and 

 broadl}' darker ; posterior wings with the fringe greyish -white. Wings beneath greyish -white ; anterior 

 wings with the following brownish markings, riz, : — an oblique line extending from costa to upper diseoidal 

 uervule, followed by a broken transverse linear fascia, a more continuous submarginal linear fascia between 

 whidi and the outer margin are a series of linear spots, and an outer marginal line; posterior wings with 

 n l;u-^' bhicliisb spot near apex, and hrownisli marking as mi anterior winj^s. Body ahovo and beneath 

 more or less concolorous with wings ; legs greyish-white, more or less annulated with brownish. 



Exp. wings, 20 millim. 



II ah.— Malay Peninsula ; Singapore (Kerr). 



I have as yet received but a single example of this species, obligingly sent to rue by its 

 captor, Capt, J. M. Kerr, 



Genus CYANIEIS. 



Cyanirix, D aim an, Vctenek. Acad. Handl. xsxvLi. 63, »4 (1816) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 74 (1881). 

 Lyctenopm, Feld, Reise Nov, Lep. p. 257 (1865), 



Anterior wings subtriangular, costal margin oblique, outer margin oblique and slightly convex, inner 

 margin nearly straight ; costal nervure terminating at about centre of costal margin ; first subcostal 

 nerrule emitted a little beyond basal half of cell, second between base of first and end of cell, third and 

 fourth bifurcating between end of cell and apex bf wingjf ceil long, narrow t extending to about half the 

 length of wing; first and second median nervules emitted a short distance from each other at end of cell ; 

 third median norvule emitted a little beyond basal half of cell. Posterior wings snbovate, costal and 

 posterior margins convex; costal nervure extending to apex, first subcostal nervule emitted a little before 

 the end of cell. Palpi porrect, second joint pilose, projecting half beyond the head, third slender and about 

 half the length of second ; legs well developed, femora moderately pilose ; antennas with a well-formed 

 elongate club, 



I can find no sufficient character to separate the proposed genua Lijwnopsis, FekL, from 

 Cifaniris, Felder himself appended to his diagnosis of the typical species the remark, 

 "Erinnert auch in der Zeichnnng der Unterseite an die (jruppe von Lijcama Ar(jio1u$ t L. t " 

 and as Mr, Moore (supra) gives this species as the type of Cifaniris^ there seems little doubt 

 as to common identity* 



I am only able at present to enumerate two species of Cyan iris in this fauna. Mr. Butler, 

 in his paper on the "Butterflies of Malacca," J included the Lycasna cagaya, Feld., a species 

 which clearly appertains to this genus. Our artist, however, was unable to see this specimen 

 at the British Museum, it being no longer placed under Felder's name, and was not then 

 discoverable. I have not received it from the Malay Peninsula, and, as Felder described it from 

 Luzon, it has probably been erroneously ascribed to Malacca. 



* This species is dedicated to the memory of tho late Dr. Thomas Hoi-flfield, whose name is inseparably eonneoted with 

 the Natural History of Java. 



I Mr< Moore (Lop. Ceyl. i. p. 74) describes a fifth subcustid uervulo emitted 14 from end of the cell, 1 ' but hi my view tbi* 

 is clearly the upper diacoulal norvuku 



| Trans. Linn. Soc. aer. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 548* o. 1 [ISlH). 



