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Show 1896.] MR. H. H. DRUCE O N BORNEAN LYCIENIDJE. 655 SIMISKINA SOLYMA. Simiskina solyma, de Nicev. J. A. S. B. vol. lxiii. pt. 2, p. 29, pl. iv. fig. 10 (1894). Labuan (Waterstr.). The female only is known. NEOPITHECOPS, Distant. NEOPITHECOPS ZALMORA, Butler. Mr. de Niceville states that " Cupldo talmora, Butler " of Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 348, is a synonym of N. zalmora (see J. A. S. B. vol. lxiv. p. 451). The name talmora appears to me to be so clearly a misprint that comment is unnecessary. CYANIRIS, Dalman. CYANIRIS CAMENJE. Cyaniris camenae, de Nicev. Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. ix. p. 278, pl. 0. fig. 22 (c? ). Kina Balu ( Waterstr.). C. camenae is very close to C. selma, mihi, but differs in the darker shade of its blue, in the spots on the underside being about equally conspicuous, and in its considerably larger size. CYANIRIS SONCHUS, sp. n. (Plate XXIX. fig. 4, <5 .) d1. Allied to C. cosscea, de Nicev. Upperside blue, of a darker shade, and with the black margins distinctly wider. Fore wing with a black mark partially closing the cell; hind wing entirely without the white fascia at the apex, and with the costal margin wholly black. Underside creamy white, with the spots arranged as in C. cosscea, but more prominent, especially those forming the marginal and submarginal series. Expanse 1| inch. S.E. Borneo (Wahnes). Type Mus. Staud. C. sonchus, together with C. cosscea \ de Nicev., and C. plauta2, mihi, form a small group in the genus, wdiich can be at once distinguished by the yellowish-white ground-colour of the underside. CYANIRIS PLAUTA, H. H. Druce. Dr. Staudinger has received a specimen (d), taken at an altitude of 3000 metres on Kina Balu, in which the white patch on the apex of the hind wing above has almost disappeared, and on the underside the spots are smaller and the ground-colour greyer. C. plauta usually has a black spot on the costal margin of the hind wing below, over the spot in cell as in C. cosscea, but this spot is not always present and in the example figured is absent. 1 C. cosscea, de Nicev. Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. ix. pl. O. figs. 15(1895). 2 C. plauta, H. H. Druce, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 574, pl. xxxii. fige. 8, 9. |
