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JAMIDES. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
Ceylon, where I daily observed it near Kandy in single specimens, there flies already in Southern India the 
plato. form plato F. which is regarded as the rainy period form of the smaller nava Fruhst., being smaller than Ceylon 
nava. specimens, above with a narrower black margin, beneath of a lighter ground-colour. In the Nilgiri Hills this 
nicobaricus. form is found in February yet at considerable altitudes. -— nicobaricus Wood-Mas. & Nic. differs from the prece¬ 
ding by the more extensive blue colour above and the black margin of the forewing extending in almost con¬ 
stant width along the distal margin and not extending along the costal margin as in continental specimens. 
siraha. Andamans and Nicobars. — siralia Kheil is the form from Sumatra and Nias, differing from enganicus Fruhst. 
2 -o«, from the Island of Engano by the very narrow black costal margin. — nabonassar Fruhst. from Borneo on the 
nilu. contrary has (in the $) the black margin above almost twice as broad as siraha. ■— nila Horsf. from Java has 
a still broader black margin on the upper surface of the 2, but it is otherwise lighter; in the however, the 
nilana. black distal band is not distinctly widened. ■—- nilana Fruhst. is a dry period form of it. •— In phaneas Fruhst. 
phaneas. from Lombok the $ is larger, darker than nilana, the black distal band on the forewing a little broader than 
there, but narrower than in the following tamborana. The $$ exhibit above a darker blue than the Javanese 
tamborana. forms. • — tamborana Sm. is the form from Sumbawa with a distal band of the forewing being costally 2, dorsally 
pulchrior. 3 mm broad, but which does not bend round to a costal-marginal stripe. — pukhrior 8m., from the Island of 
Pura (described by their authors by mistake also from Halmaheira, where, however, according to Fruhstorfer 
only the form toscius flies), very closely approaches astraptes, from the $ of which the $ differs by a reduction 
of the blue colour above; from pulcherrima it deviates by the broader black margin of the forewing. In the 
herdonius. $ above the cell and the space behind and below it is lavender-blue. •—- herdonius Fruhst., from the Island of 
Wetter, resembles grata from Tenimber and is just as small, but above more violettish-blue, the marginal band 
of the forewing broader, the small marginal spots of the hindwing more intense. Fruhstorfer believes that 
grata, the specimens flying in Timor also belong to this form. -—- grata Sm. from Tenimber is rather a small form, 
the 8 above more cyanean than violettish blue, the black marginal stripe of the forewing narrower; the $ rather 
soarchad. dark blue, the antemarginal dots of the hindwing in small, narrow, light blue rings. -—- In soarchad Fruhst. from 
the Key Islands the hindwing above shows much brighter markings than in the preceding forms; the under 
astraptes. surface is darker, too, and the marginal spots of both wings are beneath more distinct. •— astraptes Fldr. is beside 
the Ceylon specimens one of the forms most widely distributed in European collections. It originates from 
polassar. Amboina, and greatly resembles polassar Fruhst. from Obi, which, however, is beneath lighter grey and has 
a narrower black margin above. Semper herewith combines also the specimens from the Philippines as well 
as from the South Sea Islands, where bochus occurs almost everywhere and not unfrequently. However the 
herodicus. Luzon form herodfeus Fruhst. differs from astraptes from Ceram and Amboina by the lighter blue colour above 
and the more distinctly defined black margin of the forewing; the of herodicus deviate more from those 
c/eorgi. of astraptes and approximate those of nilana from Java. -— georgi Fruhst. is quite similar, but it has a somewhat 
formosanus. broader margin of the forewing. Mindanao. ■ — - formosanus Fruhst. (152 a) in both sexes has an extraordinarily 
broad black margin of the forewing being at the costal and proximal margins expanded towards the base, whereby 
seminiger. it already inclines to seminiger Sm. which is the Halmaheira form flying also in Batjan and distinguished by 
the $ exhibiting only the cell of the wing and a narrow part above and below it blue; thus in contrast with 
tiglath. its name more than half of its upper surface is black. — tiglath Fruhst. from Sula-Mangoli also forms 
a transition to it, but the black colour does not extend quite so far towards the base as in seminiger, and the 
phaidon. blue colour of the $ above is more intensely tinted violet. — phaidon Fruhst. is the Celebes form; the black 
margin of the hindwing recedes somewhat more than in the preceding forms; the blue tint similar to that of 
toscius. formosanus (152 a) and herodicus. — toscius Fruhst. from Halmaheira resembles the forms polassar and astraptes, 
but it is smaller, darker, more violettish. The under surface is more red-brown than greyisli-brown, and the 
paulanen- transverse undulations are distinctly yellowish-white. •— paulanensis Fruhst. flies in the Pelan Archipelago 
>s;s ' and the Caroline Islands, being above deep dark blue, very broadly margined with black, the undulations beneath 
argentina. only indistinct. — argentina Prittw. (= carissima Bbl. nec Btlr.) is allied to astraptes from Ceram; it is the 
candrena. form from the Samoa Islands, whilst catldrena H.-Schdff. is from the Fidji Islands; both differ but very 
little from each other, but they are not so common there as in the continent and the Malayan islands. •— From 
woods fordi. the latter (from Viti-Levu) another form was separated: woods fordi Btlr. flying in Vanua-Levu. This form 
lobelia, also flies in Mango from where also the smaller lobelia Btlr. is mentioned; perhaps it is merely the produce 
campanula- of a very long dry period, just like campanulata Btlr., according to Fruhstorfer, is only a temporal form of 
fa - woodfordi, dark blue with.a lilac reflection. ■— kava Dree, originates from the New Hebrids; small, though of 
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a wonderful Morpho-like blue; here the $ also shows traces of the small marginal eye-spots of the hindwing 
amarauge. being well developed in the $$ of the other races. -—■ Of the Papuan forms we figure amarauge Dree. (152 b); 
cepliion. from Alu, Guadalcanar and Florida Island. •— cephion Dree, from Guadalcanal’ is probably only a seasonal 
soemias. form; 8 with a narrow black costal-marginal stripe. •— soemias Drc. is pretty large, violettish blue, $ above 
tinted dark violet; from Alu, Florida andlkalaita; though it slightly differs from bochus siralia in the genitals, 
purpurata. Fruhstorfer regards it merely as a temporal form of amarauge. — purpurata Sm. is above almost lilac, the 
8 with a narrow (about 1 mm broad) black margin and fine marginal dots of the hindwing, the $ more sky- 
blue, with a very broad marginal black of the forewing, and in the hindwing with very well marked marginal 
timon. eye-spots; from Humboldt and Astrolabe Bay, probably in the whole north of New Guinea. -— timon Sm. from 
New Pomerania and New Lauenburg already inclines towards soemias: the black margin of the forewing is 
