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Show 1896.] MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYC^NID^E. 671 some lights, with a very narrow black costa and broader outer margin to the primaries; secondaries with a very broad costa and much narrower outer margins; tail black with white tips; anal angle with a small whitish spot. Underside: both wings ochreous, with darker spots margined with cream-colour. Primaries with the usual three increasing cell-spots; above and below the third is another spot, that on the costa being quite small; subdiscal area dark : transverse band composed of six or seven spots, the second one larger than that on the costa and shifted outwards, third very slightly outwards but inclined decidedly inwards, fourth both shifted and inclined outwards, fifth perpendicularly inclined with inner margin shifted inwards, sixth shifted well outwards ; a trace of a small spot below this ; submarginal row fairly distinct; submedian area pale. Secondaries with a small spot at the costal basal extremity; four basal spots, second and fourth shifted inwards, followed by three larger spots below each other, the second of which is shifted inwards ; cell closed by a subquadrate spot, below which is another connecting it with the lowest of the three spots : transverse band composed of seven spots, the upper two being detached from the others and just touching the cell-spot, the third spot is shifted right outwards, fourth outwards again, fifth with its inner margin only shifted inwards, sixth well outwards, seventh angular, and eighth spot confluent, being joined by a narrow neck and extending to nearly halfway up the internal nervure ; submarginal row distinct, subannular; a black spot on the very ill-developed lobe and just beyond the tail, the intervening area filled with metallic green scales, which also edge the spots above. $. Upperside : both wings purplish blue, with a black spot at the end of the cell in the primaries, the costa being broadly blackish, the outer margin broader, and the apical area still broader. Secondaries with very broad margins all round, the costa being the broadest, and the outer margin slightly decreasing in width near the tail. Underside as in the male. This species will come near to A. vlharl, Feld. I have before me three males-one from Java, in which the spots are very dark indeed; but in none of these, though evidently the same species, is the transverse band of the primaries precisely similar : in that from Java the upper four spots are strongly but evenly outwardly oblique; whilst in a very small specimen from Sandakan the first five make an almost even curve, and in one wing of the male type there is a minute spot almost touching the inner upper corner of that closing the cell. E mus. Druce (Sandakan, 2 rf, 1 2 ) . o% Java, e mus. Staudinger. ARHOPALA CENTAUBUS, Fabr. Kina Balu (Waterstr.). Dr. Staudinger has received a single female specimen of the form pseudocentaurus, D. & H e w . |