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Show 652 MR. H. H. DRUCE O N BORNEAN LYCJINIDJ:. [June 16, Kina Balu (Waterstr.). Type Mus. Staud. This species appears to be quite distinct, and the black hind wings above and the reddish-brown patches below should at once separate it from its allies 1. PARAGERYDUS, Distant. PARAGERYDUS PYXUS. Paragerydus pyxus, de Nicev. J. A. S. B. vol. lxiii. no. 1, pl. v. fig. 2, 6 (1894). Labuan ( Wahnes); Sandakan, Sapagaya, and Melikop ( Cator). Dr. Staudinger has sent me several specimens which appear to be referable to this species, and Mr. D. Cator has also captured it. PARAGERYDUS WATERSTRADTI, H. H. Druce. Mr. Cator captured this species at Sapagaya. Mr. Cator has also obtained a long series of specimens of an allied species from the island of Cagayan, which I believe is unnamed and have ventured to describe below 2. PARAGERYDUS APHOCHA. Allotinus aphocha, Kheil, Rhop. Ins. Nias, p. 28, pl. v. fig. (1884). 1 Mr. de Niceville is mistaken in supposing that the Miletus zymna, Doubl. Hew., is a true Gerydus (see J. A. S. B. lxiv. p. 445, 1895), as the structure of the legs at once proves that it is not congeneric. Dr. F. Karsch has lately placed this species, together with another from W . Africa (M. metaleucus, Karsch), in the genus Megalopalpus, Rober (Berlin, entom. Zeits. 1893, p. 217). W e possess specimens of M. zymna, and on examination I find that they agree with the figures given by Herr Rober so far as the legs and palpi are concerned, but that the neuration does not exactly correspond with the neuration as there figured. I, however, still hold the same opinion as I expressed in P. Z. S. 1895, p. 561, footnote. On the other hand, Mr. Grose Smith has recorded Miletus zymna, Doubl. & Hew., from Sumatra, but Mr. de Niceville and Dr. Martin did not obtain specimens. There is some confusion with regard to Megalopalpus, which I regret I cannot clear up. An examination of the types of Gerydus boisduvalii, Butler (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xiii. 1884, p. 194), proves that they are synonymous with G. leos, Guer., the female of which is well figured in the ' Voyage de La Coquille' (pl. 18. fig. 8, 1829)-the specimens which Dr. Butler referred to G. leos being the recently described G. maximus, Holland, from Celebes. Of course, G. boisduvalii, Butler, could not in any case stand, as Mr. Moore, so long ago as 1857, described another species under the name boisduvali, with which the Amboinese species is strictly congeneric. 2 PARAGERYDUS MELOS, sp. n. Closely allied to P. horsfieldi. cS. Upperside much darker brown, with the discal patch paler and more conspicuous; underside pale grey, with the marginal rows of spots in each wing dark and distinct. 2 • Dark brown above, very slightly paler ou the disc of the fore wing; underside as male, but ground-colour paler. The outer margin of the hind wing is much more dentate than in that sex of P. horsfieldi. Expanse, <$ lfVls inch, 2 lyo-lf inch. Hab. Cagayan. Types Mus. Cator and Druce. A number of specimens were obtained in June, which vary only in size. |
