36 W. Doherty — New and Bare Indian Lyceenid®. [No. 1, 
Poritia, the lower tuft is absent, the upper one black or dark brown, 
without the whitish patch. 
Subfamily LYC2EN1N2E. 
Genus Phengaris, novum. The splendid Chinese butterfly Lyccena 
atrogxUtata, Oberthiir, deserves to be placed in a separate genus or sub- 
genus, distinguished from Lyccena by the upper discocellular vein of the 
hindwing being short and angled outwardly, the lower discocellular 
meeting the median vein opposite its second forking. 
This butterfly is certainly the finest of the subfamily, unless the 
danis group of Gyaniris be excepted. I was not able to detect any odour 
about it, but it has all the air of a protected species. I often saw 
it in the meadows of the Kutclia Naga country, Naga Hills, from 6000 
to 8000 feet elevation, flying very slowly and visible from a great 
distance, so that I caught a good number, in spite of its rarity. The 
character of its markings, round black spots on a pure white ground, 
is very remarkable. It is hard to avoid thinking Tajuria maculata, Hew. 
a mimic of this species, though it seems to live at a lower elevation, 
and further to the westward. Taraka hamada is somewhat similarly 
marked, and is obviously protected. 
I have taken the name Phengaris, which means a daughter of the 
moon, from the modern Greek, 
Subfamily GE BYDIN Jd. 
8. Gerydus heracleion, n. sp. 
Male, forowing less acute than in G. symethus, hindwing rounded. 
Above, brown, forewing with a slaty gloss, the apex darker, a broad 
oblique white band from the upper end of the cell and beyond it (above 
the cell it is obscure), almost to the middle of the interno-median space, 
the outer part dehiscent along the lower median vein, projecting fur- 
thest in the lower median space (unlike symethus). The band is 
much broader than in Gerydus biggsii, Distant, ( gopara , de Nice- 
ville). Hind wing all dark. Below, the white band of the fore- 
wing is obscure and broken, the spot in the lower median space quite 
separate from and more distinot than the rest, the transverse lunular 
band obsolescent in the forewing, three costal ring-spots, three small 
subapical lunules. Hindwing, much less clouded with blackish than in 
G. croton, the lunular transverse band nearly regular, the basal spots 
quadrate, the submarginal black dots very distinct. 
Perak, Malay Peninsula. 
