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LYCAENOPSIS. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
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considered as typical limbatus in England, a denomination may be introduced. — With jynteana partly considered jynieanu. 
as L. argiolus, partly as a form of albocoeruleus, Niceville has probably mixed up a race of limbatus as well 
as of L. argiolus. This presumption is also borne out by the fact that Niceville states in the ,,Gazetteer of 
Sikkim“ 1894, p. 152, that he was unable to find out L. argiolus sikkima Mr., whereas he says jynteana to be 
,,common at altitudes of 2 to 9000 ft.“ Its range in Continental India extends from the mountain-ranges of 
the Residency of Bombay across the Himalayan promontories to Assam. The form of Southern India from 
Travancore and the Nilgiri Hills will most probably deviate from the North Indian chief and nomenclatural 
form. — This is certainly the case with amitra subsp. nov. from Ceylon. Moore, the author of the species, amitra. 
has surely obtained it from the palm-island, but he did not recognize it. It was only in 1899, when Niceville, 
backed up by finds of Manders, reported them to be not too common at mean altitutes of the mountains. 
amitra, however, according to the investigations in Ceylon, does not go up so high as L. lanka Ulr. which is 
found in great numbers near Nuwara-Eliya. The blue colour of the upper surface of the Ceylon amitra appears 
to be darker than that of the North Indian specimens; the small black striae beneath are more pronounced and 
closer together. — hermesiasiax Fruhst. (152 f). Specimens from the Southern Philippines in my collection hermesia- 
and Semper’s fig. 14 and 15 differ from those from Luzon by their larger size, broader black bordering, darker nax - 
blue colour and more prominent black dotting beneath on all the wings. Mindanao. Similar races will probably 
be yet found on all the Philippine Islands. — placidula Drc. (154 b), unknown to me in nature, seems to placidula. 
be very rare, for it is not to be found in any of the collections accessible to me. Chapman was induced by a 
wrong denomination in the British Museum to consider specimens of tenella from British New Guinea, ana¬ 
tomically belonging into another group of species, to be placidula. Borneo-^H are superior in size to Sumatran 
and Javanese the $ resembles that of lyce from Celebes, but it is more abundantly suffused with blue parti¬ 
cularly on the forewing. According to Moulton, there are only three specimens in the Sa.rawak Museum, two 
of which were captured by Shelford and Cox accompanied by five natives on Mount Penrissen, where they 
had been assiduously collecting in May 1900, whilst the third was found in Kouching in August. —- placidina placidina. 
Fruhst. (152 f as placida). The 3$ are not very rare, larger, darker, with a less bright lustre than specimens 
from Sikkim. 9 very rare, not yet known. North East and West Sumatra, Penang. — pellax Fruhst. This pellax. 
form is above, and in most specimens also beneath, not discernible from L. cardia astarga. However insignificant 
the external differences may be, the morphology of the clasping-organs nevertheless proved that beside cardia 
also limbatus occurs in Java. The $2 of the two species being so very remarkably similar in the male, however, 
are very easily distinguished, as we see on table 152 f, in which row the Zyce-9 being brightened up by 
v/hite represents the $ of the Celebes form of limbatus, whilst the dark blue $ of thoria, being hardly hued 
whitish, illustrates the $ of the cardia- race from Celebes. Thus the specimen in Pieper’s magnificent work on 
table 22, fig. 80 is neither the $ of limbatus, but that of the Javanese cardia astarga Fruhst. Correct is 
only fig. 82 on the same table 22, named ,, placida^ by Piepers. For placida simply read L. limbatus pellax 
Fruhst. The <$<$ are very scanty in Java, the $ being unknown. Java, Lombok, Sumbawa; certainly also Bali. 
—- epicharrna Fruhst. Flores, lies before me only in an uncommonly small form of the dry period from the epicharma. 
Island of Flores, being above remarkably light blue and with a magnificent lustre. It likewise numbers among 
the forms not to be accurately distinguished from L. cardia masinissa Fruhst. and L. camenae jugurtha Fruhst. 
from Flores., if the clasping-organs would not be examined. It is, however, not impossible that specimens of 
the rainy period unknown to me of all the three species from Flores may also exhibit external differences. — 
lyce Sm. (152 f $ as lyseas). South Celebes). A well-defined insular race described according to specimens lyce. 
collected by Doherty near the water-fall of Maros. Martin found the form near Donggala, Central Celebes; 
$ beneath distinguished by very large black maculae, so that lyce-<$<$ strikingly resemble the of L. puspa 
being very similar beneath. — pellonia Fruhst. is a mountain-form of it from the Peak of Bonthain from pellonia. 
an altitude of 5000 ft . From the same locality originates also the $ figured as lyseas, the only one I captured 
there. — gadara Fruhst. is a form of the Island of Obi, of a somewhat larger habitus than that of the Celebes gadara. 
specimens, the bordering of the forewings being narrower. The ground-colour appears to be somewhat 
darker blue, but above without any violet admixture. Apparently rare. — beretava Ribbe (what I have bcretava. 
said about it on p. 866 has proved to be erroneous after having seen the type belonging to limbata) may, 
as far as can at any rate be judged from a figure, represent the limbatus- form from the Bismarck 
Archipelago. Above dark blue with an extremely narrow border of the forewing, beneath dark grey with 
insignificant, rather indistinct, small black spots. Apparently very rare, only observed near Kinigunang in 
New Pomerania. 
L. nigerrimus Moult. This species, established according to one specimen without the abdomen, nigerrimus. 
is above dark brown. The under surface is whitish, the costal margin of the forewing faintly hued brownish 
or grey. The cell terminates by a dark line. Forewing with a postdiscal, regular series of 6 short intranerval 
lines and *a subterminal row of spots, as well as a ,,fuscous lunular“ submarginal line. Hindwing with 
a postdiscal row of 8 punctiform spots. The species forms the transition from L. plauta to haraldus. Borneo, 
Sarawak. 
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