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Show 1895.] MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCEENIDEE. 621 DEUDORIX STAUDINGERI, sp. n. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 10 cf •) cf. Upperside dark brown; fore wing dusted w ith reddish brown, of a darker shade than in D. epijarbas and much less extensive. Hind wing: outer margin, from subcostal nervule where it is broadest to lobe rather narrowly and evenly dark reddish brown, crossed by black nervules; the three median nervules dusted with reddish brown from their bases nearly to the brown outer margin. Lobe yellow, with a large black spot and a few blue scales. In some lights both wings are suffused with dark purple, that on the hind wing being most conspicuous. Underside much as in D. epijarbas, with a slightly reddish tinge and the white lines rather more sordid. Abdomen reddish brown above, pale buff below. Expanse 1T 9Q inch. Labuan (Waterstr.). I have named this fine species after Dr. Staudinger, by wdiose kindness I am able to describe it here and whose collection contains the type and only specimen I have seen. It is a true Deudorix as defined by Mr. de Niceville and should be easily recognized. RAPALA, Moore. EAPALA DELIOCHUS. Deudorix deliochus, Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 352; id. 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye. Supp. p. 31, pi. V.A. figs. 68, 69, cf (1878). Labuan ( Waterstr.). Dr. Staudinger has sent a single female of this species which agrees well on the underside wdth Hewdtson's type. Theda (=R.) kessuma, Horsf., which we possess from Java (<~f $ ), and which I have compared with Horsfield's type (?) in the British Museum, is a very closely allied species ; the male on the upperside is scarcly distinguished from that sex of R. deliochus, but the female kessuma has a larger and paler blue area. On the underside the groundcolour of R. kessuma is paler and the white band at the end of the cell, which in R. deliochus is continued straight almost to the submedian nervure, is in R. kessuma broken at the third median nervule, the lower portion being placed further out and closer to the third band. From the available material these differences, although slight, seem to hold good, but when more specimens can be examined it may be found that the tw^o species are synonymous. Mr. de Niceville has described the female deliochus from Eangoon (Butt. Ind. etc. iii. p. 457). They are very curious species, and I may mention that I found Horsfield's type in the British Museum collection placed under the genus Nacaduba, species of w hich on the underside it much resembles. EAPALA SPHINX. Papilio sphinx, Fab. Syst. Ent. p. 520 (1775). Kina Balu (Waterstr.). The apex of the fore wing is less broadly black in specimens |
