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margin on the hindwing. Above the ground-colour of the <$ is black, in the proximal portions of the wing lustrous 
blue, in the $ dark brown; the white anal area similar as beneath. Sumatra. latipictus Fruhst. (158e, f) has latipictus. 
above a more intensely bluish-grey tinge on the forewing (<$), filling up almost the whole cell and extending below 
it almost to the margin. Under surface darker red-brown than in Javanese specimens, the black markings more 
intense; $ on both sides darker. Nias. — tliarisides-PVtt&s*. ( = tharis Drc.) (158 f) is larger, the upper surface purely tharisidrs. 
black; the white anal area in the hindwing is narrower. Borneo. — javanicus Fruhst. is larger, with longer tails javanicus. 
than Sumatran specimens; forewing not so deep black as in tharisides, but neither so much covered with greyish- 
blue as in latipictus ; the white anal area is narrower and beneath more abundantly spotted. Java. — enganicus enganicus. 
Fruhst. are the particularly small specimens occurring inEngano; distinguished from Javanese specimens by the 
reduced bluish-grey hue at the anal margin of the forewing. The anal white in the hindwing, however, is more 
extensive and confluent, not as in Javanese separated by a black subanal spot. The black spotting before the 
margin is reduced; the black border-line proximad to the anal white is more obsolete. — In ritsemae v. Eecke ritsemae. 
the upper surface is not tinted so dark as in Javanese or Sumatran specimens, the white areas on the hindwing 
are reduced as in Borneo specimens and surrounded with black. Under surface lighter orange, the white likewise 
reduced and with larger black spots. The border-line separating the white from the yellow runs differently, 
too; from Simalur. - watsorsi v. Eecke. comes from Billiton; in the hindwing the white is still more reduced watsoni. 
and besides powdered with black, so that it almost disappears. Beneath 5 black marginal spots exhibit white 
bows which are again bordered with black. The ground-colour of the under surface is almost red. As to the 
habits of the insect which is by no means rare, nothing seems to be known except that the Javanese form is 
common in January near Palabuan; Piepers in his ,,Rhopalocera of Java“ does not state any observations. 
E. meduana Hew. (158 f). This species being common in the Philippines (Bohol, Panaon, Mindanao) meduana. 
looks in both sexes above almost exactly like the $ of tharis, but beneath the ground-colour is defined in a 
bow and yet before the black subanal line against the white area. The exhibits in the forewing s* distinct 
scent-mark. 
E. etias Dist. & Pr. (146 Be), from Sandakan, resembles tharis , but differs in the more extensive etias. 
white anal area. !¥> B f e)147# C?(f 
E. sfaudingeri Drc. (156 g). Both sexes very similar, above blackish-brown, the suffused with a staudingeri 
deep dark blue reflection, the whole anal third of the hindwing purely bone-coloured, with 3 slightly contiguous 
transverse spots. Under surface ochreous-yellow, towards the hind-margin paler, before the marginal area a 
dark transverse line, in the hindwing an angular one; anal area as above. From the Kina Bain. 
75. Genus: Clieritra Mr. 
Subcostal vein with 4 branches; the 1st branch branches off from the centre of the upper wall of the 
cell, the 2nd before the last third of the cell, the 3rd above before its end, the 4th from two thirds below the 
3rd; discal cell very broad and long, on the hindwing there is a very long and thin tail on the lower median 
branch and a much shorter one on the submedian. 3 rather widely distributed forms are known, num¬ 
bering among the most conspicuous Lycaenidae. 
Ch. freja. This unmistakable long-tailed species was described from Tranquebar (in South India), 
but in such a way that the description may be applied to nearly all the forms of the species. It refers, however, 
more to specimens from the western Himalaya (particularly Kumaon), where the species is particularly common, 
as well as from Annam and the western parts of Indo-China. — freja F. (146 g , 159 b £) is here figured from freja. 
South Annam; but the Ceylon form pseudojafra Mr. (= nec Fruhst.) (158 f) hardly differs from it, except that pseudojaim 
the under surface is throughout purely white, which is not always the case in continental specimens. The anal 
area is also in the $ very much intermixed with white, whereas the typical freja generally exhibit but very 
little white. — In specimens from the Nilgiri Mts., where the species is not very common, the exhibit 
above only yet a white marginal crescent, which is already somewhat dull, between the bases of the tails, and 
2 small very feeble white spots above the anal black; this is joffra Btlr. (nec jafra Godt). — ochracea Drc., from joffra. 
Borneo, is recognizable by the almost quite ochreous under surface and by the proximal band in the anal portion ochracea. 
of the hindwing being much broader and less flawed. This refers to specimens from Labuan and Sandakan; 
but judging from the small material at my hands it seems to be rather doubtful whether there are transitions 
to the continental form occurring already in Borneo. Such forms occur in Sumatra (= frigga Fruhst.) (159 b), frigga. 
and Distant figures a ? of this form from Malacca (Rhopal. Malay, pi. 20, fig. 10) which has only about as 
much anal white as the E3 exhibit in other forms. — jafra Godt. (joffra Piep. nec joffra Mr.) is the Javanese jafra. 
form; it is almost exactly like frigga, but the $ has no anal white any more on the upper surface, the $ 
still very little; but the under surface is, in contrast with ochracea, almost quite purely white, only at 
the costa and distal margin very feebly lined with rust-colour. — Larva green or flesh-coloured, across the 
dorsum extends a longitudinal ridge at the sides of which there are brownish tubercles; sometimes the centre 
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