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Show 1895.] MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCEENIDEE. 593 ARHOPALA ANTIMUTA. Arhopala antimuta, Feld. Eeise Nov., Lep. vol. ii. p. 233 (1865). Arhopala davisoni, de Nicev. Butt. Iud. etc. iii. p. 280, frontispiece, fig. 135, d (1890). Sandakan and Elopura (Pryer) ; Labuan (Low). I have been able to examine the type of A. antimuta in the Felder collection, and find that A. davisoni is identical wdth it. It is entirely without the large round patch of scales described by Mr. de Niceville (Butt. Ind. etc. iii. p. 277), but not by Felder, as belonging to it. Mr. de Niceville appears to have confounded the species which I have doubtfully referred to A. atosia, Hew., wdth A. antimuta, but an examination of Felder's type proves that this is incorrect. The blue colour of the type and only specimen in the Felder collection is quite dark, much as in A. aroa, but darker, whilst the specimens he probably refers to are quite a different colour. Mr. H. J. Elwes records it from Borneo (P. Z. S. 1892, p. 633)l. ARHOPALA ALACONIA. Amblypodia alaconia, Hew. III. Diurn. Lep., Lye. p. 14, pi. figs. 52, 53 (1869) ; Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 353. Labuan (Low). Below will be found described what I believe to be a new species of the genus Mahathala, Moore2. ARHOPALA EPIMUTA. Amblypodia epimuta, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 42 (1857). Borneo (Low). 1 Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection contains a single specimen of A. inornata, Feld., from the Philippine Is., which I have compared with Felder's type. The figure is a fairly good one, and anyone possessing the species should have no difficulty in recognizing it on account of its unusual shape. The hind wing below is entirely without any metallic scales at the anal angle. It is apparently a rare species, as the specimen here mentioned is recorded for the first time since it was described. 2 MAHATHALA GONE, sp. n. Allied to M. ameria, Hew. Upperside dark purple-blue with much broader black margins; cilia, tails, and anal fold of hind wing buff-colour. Underside- fore wing dull greyish brown with pale bars and markings arranged as in M. ameria, but with the ultra-median band wider, straighter, and not angled on the costa as in that species: hind wing uniform dull yellowish stone-colour, sprinkled with minute black dots, generally largest on the nervules; two dull black irregular spots in line near the base just below the median nervure, the largest at the origin of first median nervule. A few patches of pale reddish scales, thickest near the base. Head, thorax, and abdomen black above, yellowish beneath. Antennae black. Expanse lT'ff inch. Hab. Mongolia. Type Mus. G. & S. The type specimen, which was formerly in Mr. Druce's collection, is unique. and differs so much from all specimens I have seen of M. ameria that I feel sure it is another species. I cannot determine to which sex the specimen described belongs. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1895, No. XXXVIII. 38 |