NIPHANDA. By H. Fruhstorfer. JAMIDES. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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gave them two names: fusca Brem. <$ and dispar Brem. Unfortunately the material is not dated, so that 
I can only presume that specimens being beneath sand-coloured or earth-coloured belong to the autumnal 
generation, whilst those being intermixed with white and abundantly spotted and banded in brown represent 
the forms of spring and summer. Of the $ there are two forms known hitherto. That being above monotonously 
brownish-black, and the form lasurea Graes. figured by Leech (Vol. I, t. 72 c) with a predominantly whitish 
ground-colour and a light blue reflection. From Mongolia, the Chingan Mountains, there is now yet a third 
form before me, being above brownish-grey, the base of the forewing covered with a light blue (f. tituria 
Fruhst.). In the latter form also the total colouring beneath differs considerably from all the other $$ lying 
before me by the predominantly white scaling of the pale grey hindwings. The forewing are likewise almost 
entirely whitish-grey with relatively small brown punctiform spots extensively encircled with white. — fusca 
Brem.-Grey. (153 g). The nomenclatural type originates from North China. 1 cannot tell to what extent speci¬ 
mens from the Yang-tse-kiang agree with it, but fusca from Tsingtan certainly represents the form being beneath 
most decidedly sand-coloured and most scantily spotted. From Tsingtau I only possess $$ being above brownish- 
grey, from Mongolia only the form tituria. Of lasurea Leech and Seitz figure magnificent specimens. North 
Central West China, Kiukiang, Itchang, Ningpo. — dispar Brem. Described from Eastern Siberia. My fusca 
from Sutchan, as well as from the Coll. Courvoisier from Corea are beneath much darker and more pro¬ 
minently banded and spotted than North Chinese specimens from Shantung. Amur, Corea, Sutchan near 
Wladiwostok. — shijima Fruhst. $ beneath at once separable from continental $$ by the series of narrower 
and smaller postdiscal brown spots on both wings. Hondo, on the Fuji and near Nikko (June till September). 
Everywhere in Japan common (Leech). Specimens from Kiushiu mentioned by Matsumura certainly differ 
from those of the main island. — marcia Fawc. (153 g) is an excellent race approximating the Indian dry period 
form. The $ figured by Swinhoe from the Mergui Archipelago, does not exhibit above a blue reflection.^ Tungo 
Burma (June), Siam, Mergui Archipelago. -— cymbia Nic. (153 g) was described and figured by its author accor¬ 
ding to the $ being above almost entirely blackish-brown, which Swinhoe likewise reproduced. It is not unlikely 
that the name pliniodes Moore may be transferred to $2 of the dry period form being almost white slightly 
hued with blue. Such specimens on the one hand form the transition to marcia from Burma, on the other hand 
they also form the connexion with the West Chinese lasurea Graes. Sikkim, Assam. —- tessellata Mr. This areal 
race figured by Distant on t. 42 and 44 initiates the series of the very closely allied Macromalayan forms chiefly 
distinguished by the more prominent or reduced development of the punctiform spots in the The $ of 
tessellata, moreover, excels all its allies by its size. Malayan Peninsula, Penang. -—- onoma Fruhst. (153 g). $ 
smaller, in the apical part more intermixed with white spots and in the disc with black ones than the $ from 
the Malayan Peninsula being so well figured by Distant. Hindwing beneath with more prominent blackish- 
brown spots, onoma is very rare in Sumatra. Dr. Martin only captured 2 $$ in 13 years, one of which is now 
in my collection. Sumatra, Billiton. — cyme Fruhst. forewing more curved, hindwing extended into a. longer 
apex and with larger black subanal dots than $$ from Borneo. Beneath it exhibits as a genuine Javanese 
lepidopteron a purer and more extensive white colour than of reter Druce and the of tessellata as Distant 
reproduces it. The brown bands, especially those of the forewings are decidedly narrower than in reter from 
Borneo. West Java, East Java. — reter Drc. (153 g). There are only some known found by Waterstradt 
on the Kina Balu, which are now in the collections of Staudinger, Drhce and in mine. North Borneo (Kina 
Balu). — aristarcha Fruhst. This eminent insular race is known to me from the specimens of the Coll. Staudinger 
in the Berlin Museum. Dr. Platen only found $$ distinguished from those of tessellata by increased white 
colouring and reduced blue reflection. The under surface is more faded than in the allied Macromalayan forms. 
South East Mindanao. 
20. Genus: tlamides Hbn. 
As to this genus we refer to what has been said about it and its only species known on p. 290 of Vol. I. 
From the Lampides being purely Indo-Australian and therefore not mentioned in the palearctik part the 
J amides differ by the absence of a distinct anastomosis of the costal and the 1st subcostal vein and by 
the <$<$ being without androconia which are found in all the of Lampides (except two species). We may 
add that Fruhstorfer considers these differences to be too trifling for justifying a separation of the Jamides 
from the polytypical genus Lampides, and that he approves of the former only as a subdivision within the genus. 
V7- <3 H. 
J. bochus Cr. (Vol. I, t. WsNh) is the Ceylon form which must be regarded as the type. The blue 
colour of the $ above is dark, though with a very intense metallic lustre, so that Niceville compares it with 
the blue of the Morpho. In no Lampides we find a similarly intense metallic colour; and besides the under surface 
of the Lampides mostly shows much brighter and lighter bands, whereas that of Jamides already distinctly 
exhibits the characteristic features of Nacaduba. — Whilst the typical form figured in Vol. I is confined to 
tituria. 
fusca. 
dispar. 
sliijima. 
marcia. 
cymbia. 
tessellata. 
onoma. 
cyme. 
reter. 
aristarcha. 
bochus. 
