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Show 654 ME. H. H. DRUCE O N BORNEAN LYCJENIDJE. [June 16, Sandakan and Libaran I. (Cator). Mr. Cator was fortunate in capturing two fine specimens of this beautiful species, which is recorded now for the first time from Borneo. They are larger than the type, and differ from it in the band beyond the cell in the fore wing below being somewhat less straight and rather more broken up. But this difference appears to me much too slight to constitute it a distinct species. ZARONA, de Nicev. ZARONA JASODA, de Nicev. Zarona jasoda, de Nicev. J. A. S. B. vol. lvii. pt. 2, p. 280, pl. xiv. fig. 5, d (1888); id. Butt. Ind. etc. p. 34, pl. xxv. fig. 144, <j (1890). Sandakan. Mr. D. Cator captured a single male specimen in July, which is the only one I have seen from Borneo. PORITIA, Moore. PORITIA SUMATRJE, Feld. Brunei ( Waterstr.). Dr. Staudinger's collector has obtained examples of this species on the mainland. In Sumatra, Mr. de Niceville states that, with P. philota, Hew., it is less rare than the others belonging to the genus. PORITIA PHALUKE, H. H. Druce. Mr. D. Cator procured both sexes at Sandakan in April and in August. SIMISKINA, Distant. SIMISKINA PHALENA, Hew. When referring to this species, I placed it in the genus Poritia; but as it is without the tuft of hair near the base of the submedian nervure in the hind wing, it is perhaps better placed in Simiskina, where it has beeu included by Mr. de Niceville. The second tuft of hair in all the specimens I have examined is hardly discernible; and is entirely absent in all specimens of S. pharyge, Hew., that I have before me '. These facts seem to point to the conclusion that in this case the absence or presence of these tufts is not of generic importance, and that Simiskina cannot stand. Mr. de Niceville has lately described and figured the female of S. phalena, Hew. (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. p. 270, pl. O. fig. 13, 1895), so that I appear to have quite incorrectly considered his S. solyma to be the female. The general resemblance of the undersides and the receipt of the two sexes from the same locality led me to believe that they belonged to the same species. Mr. D. Cator has sent me for examination two females taken at Sandakan in July. 1 See also m y remarks on Poritia philura, mihi, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 569. |
