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LYCAENOPSIS. By H. Fruhstorfer, 
coalitoides. 
beretava. 
coalita. 
margarelon. 
ienella. 
owgarra. 
parvipunc- 
ta. 
drucei. 
manokicari- 
ensis. 
rona. 
biagi. 
insulicola. 
a complete transition is effected to L. tenella owgarra and L. drucei. An allied form from Obi in my collection. — 
As coalitoides Rothsch., an allied race was described, discovered by Stresemann in Ceram at an altitude of 
about 650 m. — beretava Rbb. According to the figure it is pretty surely a cardia- race, which is the more probable, 
since L. limbatus, with which Chapman unites the form, has hitherto not been observed farther to the east 
than Batjan, whereas cardia is certainly yet met with in British New Guinea, from where Chapman was able 
to ascertain specimens by prepared clasping-organs. 
L. coalita Nic. described according to specimens found by Doherty on the Volcano Arjuna between 
5 and 6000ft. We also find it at altitudes of 1200 to 1800 m on the Volcano Gede. The single specimens 
are very large, of an intense blue lustre with scarcely noticeable white embedments of the forewings, but more 
distinct dilectus-spotthig of the hindwings. The under surface is of a purer and more chalky white than in 
L. cardia astarga Fruhst. from Java. The clasping-organs resemble those of the L. cardia- group, but the valve 
is more robust, more widened at its rise, and exhibits sharp terminal teeth. The $ of coalita (provided I judge 
it correctly) differs so much from L. cardia astarga Fruhst.- 9, that we are forced to separate coalita as a species 
from L. cardia, although I should have added L. coalita as a mountain-form to L. cardia astarga. The $ resembles 
much rather the $$ of L. marginata Nic., L. ceyx Nic., L. aristius Fruhst. by its purely white ground-colour, 
whereas all the $$ of L. cardia are preponderantly blue. Forewing, particularly at the costal margin, uncom¬ 
monly extensively bordered with black, the basal part of a magnificent light blue lustre, the hindwings about 
like in L. ceyx-Q, but with a more intense and more extensive black margin. Two insular races: coalita Nic. 
from Java, found by me in the east and west of the island, by Jacobson also on Mt. Ungaran in Central Java. 
The only $ known hitherto figimed by Piepers in ,,Rhopalocera of Java“ (t. 22, fig. 77 c) according to the 
specimen I collected on the Plateau of Pengalengan at an altitude of about 1400 m. Rothschild knew a $ 
from an altitude of 1400 to 2000 m, taken in Bali in January. — margarelon subsp. nov. is a much larger 
race from North East Sumatra, distinguished by a purer white under surface of the wings, exhibiting besides 
more prominent black dotting. 
L. tenella. The clasping-organs of this species in their contours resemble those of L. cardia, but the 
valve is shorter, growing broader, the terminal tooth being stunted. Chapman presumed L. tenella to be widely 
distributed, occurring also in the Malayan Peninsula, the Islands of Obi and Borneo. But according to the 
material to which I had access, it appears to be impossible that tenella goes beyond the Australian region to 
the west. We may even consider tenella to be only a strongly modified form of L. cardia, so that tenella would 
replace the Indo-Malayan L. cardia in New Guinea and Australia. This matter will be cleared up, when the 
larva and perhaps also the androconia will be known. For the present there are only three areal forms of 
tenella: tenella Misk. Habitus somewhat smaller, of a darker blue than the form figured from Dutch New 
Guinea (152 g). Observed in Queensland from the coast up to altitudes of about 400 m. — owgarra B.-Bak. 
from low districts of British New Guinea in my collection, is above lighter blue than our figure, of a much smaller 
habitus, with a costal eye-spot of the hindwings above and two series of red-brown, irregularly distributed, 
small discal dots on the hindwings beneath. -— parvipuncta Rothsch. is the mountain-form figured 152 g as 
tenella. According to the author, it was found in the Snow Mountains from December to February at altitudes 
of 1400 to 1800 m. Beneath dull white, with greyish-black, very distinct small bands and rows of dots. 
L. drucei. This species (?) having remained unknown to me in nature differs, according to the figures 
by Chapman, by the decidedly broader valve and the larger terminal tooth from L. cardia, beside the uncus 
being better developed than in L. cardia. Two territorial forms have hitherto been discovered: drucei B.-Bak. 
(154 e), of which we represent a $. The has a very narrow distal margin of both wings and shows fainter 
markings beneath. Angabunga River, British New Guinea. — manokwariensis Joicey (154 g) is throughout 
lighter blue, with a distinct black bordering of the forewings, and very delicate black markings of the wings 
beneath. 
L. rona 8m. approaches anatomically L. cardia so much that- it would not be astonishing, if it were 
proved to be a cardia- race differing more in the colours than in its intrinsic constitution. Two areal forms have 
been discovered: rona 8m. Unknown to me in nature, according to the description about as dark blue as L. 
camenae (152 g), without any submarginal dark dots on the hindwings above. Beneath with rows of dark brown 
dots on the forewings, lighter brown ones on the hindwings, being arranged similarly,,as in L. placida (152 f). 
Island of Ron in the Geelvink Bay, North West Dutch Neu Guinea. — biagi resembles L. placidula-<$ 
(154 b) above, whilst the very delicate marking beneath recalls L. placida, except all the dots and streaks remai¬ 
ning light brown. British New Guinea, at an altitude of 1500 m. — insulicola Rothsch., from the Island of 
Dampier, as well as the Volcano Island in the north of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, according to the description, 
is very closely allied to L. rona 8m. and rona biagi B.-Bak., and is surely a third insular form of the cardia- 
group, which was beside rona considered as a species. 
