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LAXITA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
L. nicevillei Rob., but the yellow preapical part of the forewings appears narrowed and the basal region 
of the forewings less extensively blackened. Under surface most characteristic by the intensely dark red ground¬ 
colour, with bulky, but entirely roundish, not as in lola oblong, black macula. The apical part of the fore¬ 
wings yellowish, as in the 9 of telesia. Types one <$ and one $ from South East Borneo. One from the 
plains of North Borneo in my collection. 
nicevillei. L. nicevillei Rob. (138 e) is excelled in size by all the Laxita and is only little superior in the habitus 
to Zarax teneta. The chrome-yellow subapical band and the pronounced transcellular black stripes of the. 
forewings distinguish this species. Under surface analogous to hewitsoni, the yellow anteterminal line 
and the blue submarginal line of the hindwing, however, parallel to the distal margin, narrower and also 
towards the anal not interrupted. Type from South East Borneo. In my collection 2 $2 from Sintang, 
West Borneo (flying in December) and 2 9$ from the lowlands of North Borneo, must yet be discovered. 
L. telesia commences the group of the species being sexually heteromorphous and, at the same 
time, represents the most variable and, therefore, most multiform species. The exhibits above on the 
fore wing a most uncommon decoration consisting of a large, oval, snow-white spot above the middle of 
the inner margin. The secondary sexual organs of it consist of an oval dark-yellow scent-spot below the 
middle of the costa on the upper surface of the hindwing, being situated in a smooth light-yellow area, 
whereas the under surface of the convex-sinuate forewing covering it is likewise smooth and light-yellow\ 
The 9 has on the pale-red forewing a yellow, indistinctly defined apical band; the hindwings are brown except 
some small red scales at the margin of the apex the branches of the subcostal and median veins being brightly 
telesia. marked in red. — telesia Hew. (138 e) described from Sarawak, was found in great numbers in a form 
presumably corresponding with the original, near Sintang on the Kapuas. The 9 resembles that of ines 
(138 e), but it exhibits a less extensive chrome-yellow preapical band of the forewing. They chiefly fly from 
ines. January till March. — ines Fruhst. originates from North Borneo and is distinguished by its larger size and 
the increased yellow of the forewings. Under surface: all the wings darker red, and all the black spots twice 
or thrice as broad, also their violet bordering more intense. On the fore wing the chrome-yellow' apical spot is 
much more extensive, extending from the costal margin — which it does not reach in telesia — as far as 
the anterior median. The subapical bluish-violet dots bordering in telesia on this yellow apical spot, are 
pistyrus. entirely absent in ines. Length of forewings 24 mm, in telesia- 2 from South Borneo 22 mm. — pistyrus subsp. 
nov. (138 e as telesia -9) occurs in South East Borneo and differs from the western and northern vicarious 
types by the receding chrome-yellow stripes of the forewings, the band of which sometimes discolours even 
lyclene. into whitish. — lyclene Nicev. is confined to the Malayan Peninsula. $ easily to be separated from telesia 
by a more extensive reddish distal border of the forewings. 9 the most closely allied to the 9 °f pistyrus, 
though with small whitish transcellular stripes of the forewings, whereby it forms a transition to boulleti 
lychnitis. (141a).— lychnitis subsp. nov. greatly approximates the race occurring in Borneo and the Malayan Peninsula 
from which it is distinguished in the <$ by a larger red apical spot on the upper surface of the forewing, 
by a red apex of the upper surface of the hindwing, and by a considerable reduction of the chrome-yellow 
area near the apex of the under surface of the forewing. It flies all the year round in the woods of the 
plains near the coast, but it is the most common in March and April. North East Sumatra. 
boulleti. L. boulleti spec. nov. (141 a) known only in one 9 °f the Paris Museum. To be separated from 
the closely connected L. telesia by a more pointed anal angle of the hindwing, as well as by the insigni¬ 
ficant black basal part of the forewing and by the upper surface of the hindwing being parted into a black 
and intensely red half, exhibiting four black submarginal spots. Porewing with a whitish, very broad pre¬ 
apical area being repeated also beneath as a whitish area. The discal spots are paler blue than in telesia. 
The basal and subbasal black stripe-spot of the under surface of the hindwing is absent, the light-blue discal 
spots being confluent instead, whereas in telesia- 9 from Borneo they are separated afar by the posterior 
median vein. still unknown. It will probably approximate the $ of L. telesia For the present we are 
justified to consider boulleti as a distinct species owing to the different shape of the wings and the differing 
position of the blue spots on the under surface. It is denominated in honour of Mons. Eugene Boullet, 
the patron of the Paris Museum. Type from Siam, brought along by the Mission of Harmand. The first 
species discovered at the periphery of the Macromalayan subregion. 
L. orphna reaches the climax of the sexual differentiation. The 9 exhibits right across the forewing 
a broad most decorative band of a bluish-white lustre and has on the upper surface of the hindwing below 
the middle of the costa an oblong-oval, pale yellow scent-spot being placed on a smooth blackish ground 
and covered by the ecpially coloured, convex-sinuous inner margin of the forewing. In the 9 the forewings being 
straight at the inner margin are red only in their outermost parts, while the basal half, except a red stripe 
running along the inner margin to the base, is brown; the hindwings are entirely brown except the red- 
tinged apex, a marginal line und some small red scales along the branches of the veins, orphna possesses 
in both sexes considerably rounder wing-contours than all the other species, especially the distal margin 
and the apex of the forewing are very much convex, so that the whole shape of the wing reminds us of 
the ear of a mouse. Therefore the specimens belonging to orphna can be distinguished already in the cornet 
by the wing-contour deviating from all the other species and in spite of the fact that orphna and damajanti 
