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LYCAENOPSIS. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
L. haraldus F. Like cossaea a typical Macromalayan, undoubtedly the most splendid representative 
of the genus, besides distinguished by the prominent heteromorphism of the sexes. In contrast with the reflecting 
blue a plain, black $ with a white discal area on both wings. The clasping-organs resemble those of L. 
cossaea, they have also remained very small compared with the remarkable size of the imagines. The valve 
ananga. exhibits distinct distal teeth. Three local forms have already been denominated: ananga Fldr. Malayan peninsula. 
comuta. Sumatra. Banka, according to Hagen not very rare. The largest of the races known. — eornuta Drc. (152 d 
as haraldus -$). North Borneo, South East Borneo; judged from 4 1 ^ in Coll. Fruhstorfer; decidedly 
haraldus. smaller than Perak-specimens with a narrower black ajhcal margin of the forewing. — haraldus F. (152 d only 
the $). Fabricius described his species from the ,,East Indies”, which is a mistake. We know, however, that 
Fabriciits received many Javanese lepidoptera the habitat of which he transferred to ,,India orientalis”, so 
that it is not improbable that also the type of L. haraldus came from the Island of Java. As we already have 
certain names for the races from Perak and Borneo, which must by no means be synonvmized with the uncertain 
,,haraldus”, I assign the name of ,,haraldus^ to the Javanese race, thus evading a new T name for it. haraldus 
is very rare in Java. Only 1 £ in my collection, a second I gave to Niceville. In the Coll. Godman there is 
a $ from Java. 
Hpte. L. ripte Drc. (152 g). An excellent species, the only species with a black, subbasal cell-spot on the 
forewing beneath. Known for certain only from North Borneo. I found the very rare $ having not been described 
hitherto in the Coll. Thieme of the Munich Museum. It resembles above the $ of quadriplaga (152 e), but it 
has a dull white ground-colour, an extremely delicate light blue shade on the basal part of the hindwing 
and a more extensive blackish-brown marginal border on both wings. The under surface looks much paler, 
but otherwise quite analogous to the °f ripte as we illustrate it. Patria, also of ripte-$, the Kina-Balu at 
an altitude of about 1500 m. 
L. marginata. A magnificent species which may be and is easily mistaken above for the rainy period 
form of L. puspa. The North Indian race is again split into two rather well separated temporal forms. L. mar¬ 
ginata has a peculiar range and inhabits a more extensive area than was hitherto known. We find it from the 
Kumaon-Himalaya to Upper and Lower Burma, then again in Penang, Sumatra and Java, finally in South 
India, but not in Ceylon and Borneo. The species is anatomically leather isolated and especially recognizable 
by a spine of the uncus, thus forming analogies to L. argiolus, limbatus, nedda etc., though it is in no way whatever 
allied to these species. Chapman considered the South Indian race to be a separate species, and his illustration 
of it (fig. 82) in fact bears a resemblance todifferences with marginata which, however, are due to the photographer 
and in reality do not exist so sharply pronounced. My preparations of marginata from Sikkim and carna from 
Sumatra mitigate the apparent contrasts, so that we have absolutely three ,,races” before us instead of three 
marginata. ,.species”. — marginata Nic. $ and $ of the wet period with an extensive black border of both wings above. 
Sub marginal dots beneath extremely prominent. of the dry period with an increased discal white above 
and smaller black dots beneath. From the Kumaon-Himalaya to Burma and Tenasserim, sometimes rising 
albidisca. to altitudes of 3000 m. —- albidisca Mr. South India. A magnificent race from the Nilgeri and Pulni Hills in 
carna. South India, above strikingly resembling L. cossaea (152 d). — carna Nic. (152 d). This form remained unknown 
to Chapman. The clasping-organs in no way differ from those of marginata from Sikkim, and the imagines also 
show only insignificant differences. The only essential difference may perhaps be noticed in the more prominent 
subterminal marginal dots on the hindwings above. North East Sumatra (7 <$<$ in the Coll. Fruhstorfer), 
carnita. Penang (Chapman). — carnita subsp. nov. is that magnificent insular race which was at first ascertained from 
Java by the excellent illustration of Peepers (t. 22, fig. 73 a and b) who denominates it marginata in the text. 
carnita differs from carna by the much broader black hue particularly also at the costal margin, and by the 
very much smaller white disc of the forewing. The submarginal row of dots on the hindwing is much more 
prominent. The $ resembles that of L. ceyx dilectissima as we figure it 154 b, but in carnita the black 
marginal area is more than twice increased. It also resembles the $ of coalita from Java as Piepers reproduces 
it, but the black bordering of the wings does not extend to the proximal margin of the forewing. Piepers found 
carnita on the volcano of Gede and in the Preangers at an altitude of about 1500 m; I myself took a $ on the 
Plateau of Pengalengan, West Java, well-known by Ornithoptera vandepolli Snell., Dodona xoindu Fruhst., Dodona 
fruhstorferi Rob., and by the innumerably occurring Papilio priapus etc. 
dohertyi. L. dohertyi Tytl. from the Naga Hills, East Assam (described in the Journ. Bombay Natural History 
Society Vol. 24, Nr. 1 (Sept. 1915) p. 121 and figured on t. IV, fig. 45/46) is to be considered as an inter¬ 
mediary between L. puspa and L. transpectus. Two generations of it were observed, that of the Monsoon 
period from July till October and that of the dry period from the end of October. I do not think it impossible 
that dohertyi will prove to be the Assam-race of L. marginata. 
