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Show • ] MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. 265 4. M E N A M A TAVOYANA, II. sp. (Plate X X X . fig. 6, 8 .) Comparatively larger than M. modesta ; the outer margin of the wings is disinctly scalloped, in M. modesta they are almost even; fore wing in male much darker in colour, the basal four fifths dark pitchy brown, brilliantly glossed with steel-blue, with a distinct minute white spot between upper and middle median veins and a larger spot on costa. Hind wing pitchy brown basally, with a marginal and submarginal row of spots smaller than in M. modesta. Female. Fore wing of the same dark colour, but less glossy blue surface : hind wing with both rows of marginal spots of the same size as in male. Expanse, 8 2 3f inches. Hab. Tavoy, Tenasserim. In coll. F. Moore. 5. MENAMA BUXTONI, n. sp. Male. Fore wing violet-brown, washed with violet-blue uniformly throughout the surface to extreme outer margins. Hind wing paler, both rows of marginal spots smaller and of a uniform size, the inner row being disposed in a curve, not in a straight series as in M. modesta. Expanse 3g inches. Hab. Sumatra (Buxton). In coll. F. Moore. 6. MENAMA LORZ*, n. sp. (Plate XXXI. fig. 5.) Euplcea lorza, Boisduval, M S . Male. Violet-brown: fore wing with a more or less violet-blue gloss in some lights suffusing the basal two thirds; a submarginal upper series of white spots similarly disposed to those in Tronga crameri, the three upper narrow, the first being very minute, the fourth largest, fifth smaller, sixth and seventh minute; three or four very minute upper marginal spots, and a minute spot also on the costa above end of the cell. Underside paler : fore wing spotted as above ; also with two or three minute lower marginal spots, a bluish-white cell-spot and two on the disk beyond: hind wing with a bluish-white cell-spot and seven discal spots beyond, and a lower marginal series of small white spots. Expanse 3j inches. Hab. Sandakan, N. Borneo (Pryer). In coll. Godman and Salvin and C. Oberthur. 7. MENAMA MOUHOTII, n. sp. (Plate XXXI. fig. 6.) Male. Ochreous brown, slightly tinged with olivaceous : fore wing with two very small indistinct whitish lower submarginal spots, and two similar marginal spots: hind wing with a submarginal row of nine large whitish spots, the seven lower oval, the two upper rounded • a marginal row of small round spots. Underside paler : fore wing with the two lower submarginal and marginal spols, a small spot at lower end of the cell, two beyond the cell, and a large one between |