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Show 1895.] MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYC.ENIDEE. 595 The specimens before me vary as to the extent of cupreous red above the subcostal nervure in the hind wing. In some examples the outer half only of the costal margin is narrowly brown, in others the whole margin is broadly brown from the base. Between these two forms are all intermediates. CURETIS MALAYICA. Amops malayica, Feld. Eeise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 221, pi. xxviii. fig. 18 (1865). Kina Balu( Waterstr.); S.E. Borneo, near Banjannasiu ( Wahnes). A female from Kina Balu has the costal margin of the hind wing very pale, almost white. ILERDA, Doubl. ILERDA KIANA. Sithon kiana, Grose Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6. vol. iii. p. 317 (1889); Whitehead, Kina Balu, p. 118, pi. xx. figs. 7, 8 (1893). Kina Balu (Everett, Whitehead, Waterstradt). The apparent likeness of the underside of this Butterfly to species of the genus Ilerda led me to carefully examine its neuration, and on bleaching specimens of both sexes I find that the neuration is exactly the same as in I. epicles, Godt. It agrees also in the form of the antennse and in the absence of any secondary sexual characters ; the only difference that I can detect is that the terminal joint of the palpus is slightly longer than in /. epicles. It has been received in some numbers from Kina Balu, and is remarkably different from any other species of the genus. Both sexes are much alike, the female having a rather less extensive and greyer blue anal patch with larger black spots. Mr. Grose Smith has kindly shown me his type. DACALANA, Moore. DACALANA VIDURA. Amblypodia vidura, Horsf. Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 113 (1829) \ lolaus vidura, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 351. Dacalana vidura, Distant & Pryer, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xix. p. 268 (1887). Sandakan; Elopura (Pryer); Trusan (Everett); Labuan (Low); S.E. Borneo, near Banjannasiu (Wahnes). The white band crossing the wings on the underside varies somewhat in width in Bornean specimens as it does in Javan. 1 Messrs. Godman and Salvin possess a male Dacalana burmana, Moore, collected in Burmah by H u m e , which agrees in venation exactly with D. vidura^ Indeed it is very doubtful if D. burmana can claim specific rank from that species; the upperside is certainly a darker blue colour, but the characters given for the underside are valueless. Mr. II. J. Elwes gives it as a synonym in his paper in the P. Z. S. 1892, on Butterflies collected by Mr. Doherty in the Naga and Karen hills and Perak. 38* |