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Show 1896.] MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCENIDJE. 669 ARHOPALA MOOREI, sp. n., Bethune-Baker. (Plate XXXI. fig. lc?0 Labuan; Kina Balu ; Malacca. o*. Upperside: both wings bright purplish blue, rather deep in tone; primaries with very narrow black costa and broad black outer margins; secondaries with broad black borders of almost equal width all round ; abdominal fold dark grey ; no tail. Underside: both wings dirty brown, with very slightly darker spots palely edged. Primaries with all the markings very obscure ; three increasing cell-spots, the third the most obscure, with a trace of a small one below : transverse catenulated band composed of five spots, the first on the discoidal nervure, the upper three are very oblique outwardly, the fourth is shifted decidedly inwards, and the fifth outwards ; submarginal row exceedingly indistinct; sub-median area pale. Secondaries with pattern distinct; four basal spots, the second and fourth shifted inwards, followed by three larger spots below each other, the two lower ones being near together; cell closed by a large spot, below which is another small one: transverse catenulated band composed of eight spots, the upper two distinct from the others but not disconnected, the second spot is shifted well outwards, the third right out again, the fourth rather further out still, fifth inwards, small, sixth outwards; seventh angular spot right inwards (sometimes dislocated), eighth almost confluent with it: submarginal band indefinite; anal area with two dark spots, over which are imposed bluish or bluish-green metallic scales. 5. Upperside: both wings of paler blue than the male, with short broad black costa, very broad outer margin, and excessively broad apical area; secondaries with very broad black borders all round, the costa being the broadest. Underside precisely as the male in every respect. This species, with A. ivaterstradtl, will come between A.metamuta, Hew., and A. hypomuta, Hew. It can readily be distinguished from the former in that the colour of both the wings is the same without the purple gloss, and darker altogether than the colour of the hind wings of that species; the borders are also narrower than in A. metamuta; whilst the bluer colour and the broad borders separate it from A. hypomuta. From A. ivaterstradtl it differs in being a smaller iusect with broader borders and of a deeper and more purple-blue. I have two specimens, kindly lent m e by Herr Bibbe, from Malacca, which, though larger than Bornean specimens, yet cannot be referred to anything but this insect. Mus. Staudinger, Bibbe, G. T. B.-B. [We also possess two males of this species from Sumatra.- B. H. B.] ARHOPALA DEVA, sp. n., Bethune-Baker. (Plate XXX. fig. 3, tf.) N. Borneo, Sandakan. Expanse, d 40, $ 40 millim. c?. Upperside : both wings purple, with black linear costa and |
