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Show 660 MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYOENID^E. [June 16 less distinctly spotted, and the transverse band has a longish spot below the lower median nervule; the secondaries are likewise less darkly spotted, especially the transverse band, which is continuous without a break, and with spots more quadrangular. This is a very distinct species and will come after A. tameanga. <3 e mus. Semper; 2 e m u s- Staudinger. ARHOPALA DAJAGAKA (Stgr. MS.), sp. n., Bethune-Baker. (Plate X X I X . figs. 11 d, 12 ?.) Kina Balu, Labuan, Tameang-Lajang. Expanse, rf 2> 55 to 56 millim. o*. Upperside : both wings bluish purple, with a very slight brown tinge in side lights. Primaries with costa and outer margin finely black. Secondaries with broad brown costa and narrow black outer margin ; abdominal fold grey; no tail, but a slight tooth-like projection at the end of the lower median nervule; no lobe. Underside brown with an ochreous tinge, with dark spots palely encircled. Primaries with three increasing cell-spots, below the first and second a large spot, sometimes divided into two, below the third a spot in the lower median angle; transverse catenulated band composed of six spots-the first, on the costa, small; second, third, and fourth shifted well outwards and outwardly oblique ; fifth and sixth below each other, shifted inwards but outwardly oblique ; submarginal row indefinite; submedian area paler. Secondaries with a spot at the extreme costal basal extremity; four basal spots of fair size below each other, the second shifted slightly inwards, tbe fourth right inwards, followed by three more spots below each other ; cell closed by a large sub-ovate spot, below which is a smaller one connecting it with the lower of the previous three ; catenulated band composed of eight spots, all of which (except the eighth) are completely encircled by a pale margin and are arranged in a fairly even semicircle; the first and second are detached from each other and from the others, all of which touch each other (in one specimen before m e I notice the third and fourth spots are not quite completely encircled with a pale margin); submarginal row rather indefinite; anal spot black; a dark spot on each side the lower median nervule, over which are superimposed bright pale blue metallic scales, as also over the anal spot; this scaling is rather plentiful. 2 . Upperside: both wings bright violet. Primaries with a dark patch beyond the apex of the cell; costa not very broadly brown; outer margin with deep scollops of brown between the nervules, apex broadly brown. Secondaries : costa broadly brown, outer margin with brown border of medium width; abdominal fold greyish. Underside as in the male, but paler; but the catenulated band of the primaries has an additional spot below the lower median nervule, and the same band in the secondaries has not the spots so completely palely margined as in the male. This species will precede A. anamuta, Semper. Mus. Staudinger, Semper, G. T. B.-B. |