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Show 1896.] MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCiENlD^E. 663 o*. Upperside : both wings bright rather deep blue tinged with purplish, with a slight brownish lustre in one light; costa and outer margin of primaries very finely black, almost linear; costa of secondaries broadly, outer margin very finely black; abdominal fold greyish ; tail fairly long, black tipped with white, lobe slightly developed, with small white spot on its interior and exterior margin. Underside: both wings olivaceous brown, with darker spots palely margined. Primaries a little paler than secondaries, with three increasing cell-spots, above and below the third being another spot; transverse maculate band composed of six spots, the upper four slightly curved outwards and uninterrupted, the fifth shifted slightly inwards, sixth outwards and terminating on the lower median nervule; below this in the pale submedian area is a trace of another small indefinite detached spot; submarginal row rather indefinite and indistinct, subdiscal area dark. Secondaries with four basal spots below each other, tbe third shifted outwards ; following these three larger ones below each other, the third one being again shifted outwards; cell closed by a large subquadrate spot, below which is a smaller triangular one connecting it with the lower of the three spots, whilst above it, touching its outer apex, are two spots over each other, the lower of which is the larger, having its outer margin shifted outwards, the upper one touches the costal nervure; the transverse maculate band commencing on the upper discoidal nervule consists of six spots-the first three almost confluent, but each curved very slightly beyond its predecessor, fourth shifted outwards, fifth angular spot right inwards and just detached, sixth long irregular spot almost confluent with it; submarginal row fairly distinct, sublunular ; a black spot on the lobe and on the margin on each side of the tail; anal area covered with bright pale blue metallic scales, over which is a pale dusting up to the inner margin ; tail brown, tipped with white. 2 • Upperside: both wings slightly bluer than the male ; primaries with broadish costa, broad outer margin, and broader apex of black; cell closed with a very distinct black spot, and the apex of the blue area beyond the cell has three deep black spots in the nervule interspaces: secondaries with broad costa, less broad outer margin of black; abdominal fold greyish ; tail black, tipped with white. Underside very much greyer than in the male, and in the secondaries the transverse maculate band just touches the outer lower margin of the two costal spots, and the fourth spot is shifted less outwards. This species is nearest to A. aroa, Hew., but that insect is much more purple on the upperside, and the arrangement of the three upper spots of the transverse band of the secondaries is different, and in the very large series of A. aroa now before m e I find they fohow the same pattern throughout. The female of A. kounga is quite different as to upperside and colour of underside, as already described. Types, e mus. Staudinger. |