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Show 1895.] MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCEENIDEE. 603 Sarawak (Mus. Druce). W e possess a fine female specimen which agrees well wdth Mr. Distant's figure and expands no less than 2\ inches, whilst the tail on the submedian nervure measures f inch and is much broader than in any of the species of Tajuria, the nervure being distinctly visible along it almost to the tip ; so that it is more probably allied to Cheritra, Moore, where it was placed by Mr. Distant, than to Tajuria as suggested by Mr. de Niceville (Butt. India, iii. pp. 385, 386,1890). It must be a rare insect wherever it occurs, as being so conspicuous it would have been more frequently captured. The only other recorded locality for it is Penang. SUASA, de Nicev. SUASA LIRIS. Sithon liris, Staud. Iris, ii. p. 110, pi. i. fig. 10, d (1889). Kina Balu (Waterstr.). Tbe Bornean specimens have the apex and outer margin of the fore wing below a much duller shade of yellow than the type from Palawan, otherwise they agree well. The female, like that of S. lisides, Hew., is without the black subbasal spot on the hind wing. THAMALA, Moore. THAMALA MARCIANA. Myrina marciana, Hew. 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye. p. 34, pi. xvi. fig. 44 d, pi. xii. figs. 12, 13 $ (1863). Thamala mardana, de Nicev. Butt. Ind. etc. vol. iii. p. 388 (1890). Sarawak (Hew.); S.E. Borneo (Doherty, vide de Nicev.). HYPOLYCEENA, Feld. HYPOLYCEENA ERYLUS. Polyommatus erylus, Godt. Enc. Meth. vol. ix. p. 633 (1823). Hypolyccena erylus, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 351. Trusan, N. Borneo (Everett); Labuan (Low and Waterstr.). Bornean specimens of this species usually have the apices and outer margins of the wings below thickly dusted wdth russet-brown. HYPOLYCEENA THECLOIDES. Myrina thecloides, Feld. Wien. ent. Monatsch. vol. iv. p. 395 (1860). Hypolyccena thecloides, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 351. Labuan (Low and Waterstr.). Bornean specimens befoi*e me differ from Burmese by having slightly more yellow on the upperside of hind wing. |