CLEIS. 
By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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than the typical form (which we have figured 51 e from Ceram); the hindwing beneath is deep brown, so that 
the purple red ground-colour only shows through in dots, only the base of the wing being more intensely 
reddish-yellow. — celebensis Pag., finally, flying in the Minahassa like luzonica, looks above very much celebensis. 
like batjanensis, beneath more like minor-, the band of the forewing is broad and of a bright reddish; hind wing 
with a bluish-white discal spot and a yellowish margin. — The imagines are local, though mostly numerous 
at their habitats; the briskly fly about in the sunshine and like to settle, with their wings half opened, on 
grass and dwarf-bamboo; their flight is a little like that of Chrysophanus. When at rest they sit, with their 
wings closed as in the diurnal lepidoptera, in an attitude similar to that of the Hesperid Korutaialos xanites 
(Yol. IX, t. 170 c) which flies at the same places (as minor) and which they are told to resemble then. 
C. nemoga Swh. The forewing, like in the preceding, shows a broad, orange discal band from the nemoga. 
middle of the costa to the anal angle. But beneath this band is continued as a narrow costal-marginal stripe 
along the costa towards the base, and at the anal angle of the hindwing there is a small darkened ochreous spot. 
New Guinea. 
C. erycinoides Wkr. (51 f). So called from the resemblance of the colours to those of certain Erycinidae erycinoides. 
(from the sospita-growp of the genus Abisara) flying partly at the same places. Above dark brown with a dark 
yellow oblique band of the forewing, which extends before the apical third close to the anal angle; beneath 
on the ground being marbled red-brown there are central white punctiform and comma-like spots. In the 
Himalaya. 
C. attenuata Mr. (51 f) resembles small specimens of the preceding species, but the oblique band of attenuata. 
the forewing in its course is more distant from the anal angle. North India and Formosa; the Sikkim-specimens 
have a somewhat narrower and shorter oblique band than those from Formosa (= formosana Wil.), but this formosana. 
marking varies individually a great deal. 
C. jucunda Fldr. (51 f). Here the band of the forewing is expanded into a large wedge-shaped spot jucunda. 
extending from the base almost to the centre of the margin of the forewing and being interspersed with black 
dots which may flow together into stripes. In the $ the colouring of this band is lighter, more yellow. 
The under surface is somewhat like that of similis. Java, Sumatra, Malacca, and Borneo. 
C. similis Pag. (51 f) is above coloured like a small Agonis lycaenoides (51 d), but beneath very much similis. 
like the small forms of C. petavia (such as niasica), though lighter yellow with a red discal patch and a white- 
pupilled central dot. Philippines. It flies in July and October till January. 
C. mindanensis Pag. (51 f) has a very characteristic upper surface: the wedge-shaped spot like in mindanen- 
jucunda from the base almost to the centre of the margin, enclosing a small blackish-brown wedge-shaped spot. 
Under surface very intensely honey-coloured with a brightly white-centred discal dot, red patches, dark striae, 
and peculiar, lustrous silvery spots in the disc of the hindwing, as well as a large lustrous silvery spot above 
the proximal margin near the anal angle. Philippines, the figured specimen from Panaon. — As there are only 
$$ of this species and only <$<$ of similis, Semper considers that these two may be the sexes of one species. 
C. lutensis Swh. (= lutescens Pag.). Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Upper surface uniformly cinnamon- lutensis. 
brown. Under surface pale yellow, at the cell of the forewing 2 silvery white small spots surrounded with a 
dark red-brown, at the distal end of the cell a silvery white larger reniform spot, before and behind which 
there is a small roundish spot. All the spots are surrounded with reddish-brown. Hind wing beneath with 
whitish spots encircled with dark at the proximal cell-end, accompanied by a median row of similar spots 
through the wing, being situate in a deep dark brown band; across the wing reddish dots are scattered, 
growing denser from the middle of the said band towards the centre of the margin. Fringes dark brown. Ceram, 
Ternate. As in spite of a plentiful return from these two islands there are no such specimens before me, the 
species is apparently rare or very local. 
6. Genus: Cleis Guer. 
This genus being better known by the name of Damias Bsd., of which 24 forms have been described, 
is by far the most polytypical genus of the whole family. It is easily recognizable by its colouring, as most 
of the species exhibit on a deep dark brown ground bright orange oblique bands in the forewing, distal bands 
in the hindwing, the extent and shape of which, however, varies a great deal not only in the species and races, 
but also individually. The palpi, being bent upwards with a rather short last joint, project somewhat 
beyond the head; the wings of the usual shape exhibit rounded angles and margins, in the forewing the sub¬ 
costal veins 2 to 4 are forked. The species seem mostly to occur in great numbers at their habitats. 
C. evander Stoll (= evandrus Wkr., externa Kirsch) (51 g). The typical specimens of this species evander. 
lying before me from Ceram and Amboina have a very bright orange-red band of the forewing, being continued 
at the costal margin to the base of the wing and being towards the apex stunted or slightly indented. The hind¬ 
wing exhibits this band above covered with brown scales, but beneath of a bright and pure orange. There occur, 
however, also specimens with a much broader band of the forewing, exhibiting also on the hindwing above 
