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PSEUDODIPSAS. By H. Fruhstoreer. 
lycaenina. L. lycaenina. The genitals of this species are at once to be separated from those of the preceding species 
by the chitinous spines being turned downward instead of upward. The contours of the valves vary in the 
chitinous spines according to the habitat. The spines and protuberances are stronger in the Palawan race than 
in that of Celebes. The New Guinea form is for the present still without any intermediate forms. These may 
nevertheless occur in the plain districts of the island. If they should not be found, sutrana will have to be regarded 
lycambes. as a species just like philo. — lycambes Hew. is described from Northern India. Distributed from S ikk im to 
the Naga Hills and Siam. In my collection also from Hainan. Imago strong on the wing, on the leaves of 
orissica. high trees. -— on'ssica Mr. seems to be a South Indian dry period form being of a smaller habitus and more 
lycaenina. purple than violettish or lavender blue. —- lycaenina Fldr. from Ceylon, where it inhabits the foothills; somewhat 
miya. darker than Indian specimens. -— miya Fruhst. easily separable from the Ceylon specimens of my collection 
by the minute size of the imagines. Under surface darker grey. $ above uni-coloured greyish-brown without 
togata. a blue reflection. Borneo, Sintang, North East Sumatra, Malayan Peninsula. — togata Fruhst. (153 e) is of 
a larger habitus than the Macromalayan specimens. Total colouring above darker bluish-grey. Under surface 
with more purely white lines. Lombok, Sumbawa. Presumably also in Java, from where Semper knew it. 
licates. Dr. Piepers wrote me that he also owns a specimen from the west of the island. -— licates Hew. (= villosa 
Snell.) (153 f as villosa). Though Snellen has figured and described it much better, yet his denomination 
is supplanted by the name of licates being 4 years older and hitherto entirely neglected. South Celebes; I observed 
it from the littoral district up to an altitude of 1000 m on the Pile van Bonthain. Numbers of it in the Leiden 
Museum, besides in great numbers found by Dr. Martin near Talu (West Celebes). Courvoisier examined 
the androconia the shovel-shaped contours of which he found to be similar to those of several Lampides. —- 
addenda, addenda Fruhst. (153 f) is an eminently distinguished form. Somewhat larger and of a brighter lustre, also 
lighter blue than licates with which Semper quite correctly united it. Beneath at once recognizable by two 
subbasal, white, supplementary, slightly upturned small streaks above each other, which are absent in licates. 
villosina. Genitals by a more sharply dentate valve slightly different from those of licates. Palawan. — villositia subsp. 
nov. Luzon, Mindanao. Apparently very rare and certainly to be yet discovered also in other Philippine Islands; 
philetas. upper surface dull slate-coloured blue. — philetas Fruhst. $ beneath most closely approaching addenda Fruhst. 
(153 f) from which it differs by the forewing exhibiting beside the two white median markings two more sub- 
basal striations on the under surface. The white bands more prominent than in the Palawan form. Batjan, 
pegobates. type in the Coll. Courvoisier. -—- pegobates Holl. was established according to a $. Buru, Ceram (1 <$ in the 
godeffroyi. Leiden Museum). -—- godeffroyi Semp. (= turneri Misk.f (153 g $ as turneri) is a magnificent race, the marking 
of which beneath strikingly resembles that of emolus. I am without any $<$, still I think to be justified in 
connecting this form with lycaenina, because affinis Waterh. and paraffinis Fruhst. being just as distant from 
the nomenclatural type emolus in the colouring likewise exhibit in the genitals absolute analogies to the vicarious 
sutrana. types not differing in the colouring. Key Islands, Australia. — sutrana Fruhst. has the largest habitus among 
the races of lycaenina known hitherto and is most closely allied to licates from Celebes in the slightly darkened 
colouring above. Forewing beneath as in the Lombok form; hindwing without the black spot in the centre 
of the costal margin exhibited by all the Macromalayan and continental specimens, which, however, is absent 
in licates and addenda, as well as in godeffroyi. Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea. Numbers of it in the 
Leiden Museum. The valves of this race or species are distally widened; the distal end is vertically sharply 
cut off, not gently convex as in the vicarious forms, the ventral apex much longer. 
17. Genus: I*seii«lo<1ii>sas Fldr. 
The name of Pseudodipsas will most probably take the place of Lycaenesthes, at least the accurate 
schedules in Waterhouse’s appendix to his Catalogue of Australian Rliopalocera do not exhibit the least struc¬ 
tural difference. Lycaenesthes is thus degraded to a mere designation for that group of species which is most 
abundantly developed on the African soil. I was not yet able to bring morphological investigations about 
the clasping-organs to a close, for which reason we did not yet alter the conception by which Lycaenesthes was 
understood by English authors. The larvae and pupae of some species live together with ants, about what 
Waterhouse gave a detailed account (Victorian Naturalist 1913, 156—159). The genus predominates in 
Australia, some forms have penetrated into the Papuan District. 
myrmeco- P, myrmecophila Wath. Above brown with a bronze lustre and somewhat darker base of the wings. 
phila. Beneath greyish-brown with a marking resembling that of L. addenda (153 f), though it is more vertical and 
more distantly separated, 11 to 12, $ 12 to 14 mm. The extremely vivacious larva is bare, cream-coloured 
with a black head, but in the last stage it turns brownish and even the head also assumes the brown colour. 
The pupa is golden brown. The imago creeps out on hot, sunny days, always in the forenoon. The eggs are 
