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Show 668 MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCENID.5E. [June 16 2 . Upperside : both wings bright violet-blue; primaries with dark spot at the end of the cell and exceedingly broad brown margins all round; costa brown to the cell, and almost to the upper median nervule; secondaries with exceedingly broad costa and very broad outer and abdominal margins. Underside exactly like the male, but darker in colour. This species will precede A. arsenius, Feld. ARHOPALA WATERSTRADTI, sp. n., Bethune-Baker. (Plate XXX. figs. 10 o*,H ?0 Kina Balu. Expanse, c? 42, § 40 millim. c?. Upperside : both wings lustrous bright blue tinged with violet, in some lights the colour being dark violet-blue; primaries with costa narrowly, and outer margin less narrowly black; secondaries with costa less broadly than usual, and outer margin very narrowly black. Underside brown, with slightly darker spots palely edged. Primaries with pattern rather indistinct, with three increasing cell-spots, the first near the base, below the second is an indistinct and indefinite spot, and below the third is a small indistinct one : transverse catenulated band composed of six spots, ending on the lower median nervule ; the upper four are each inclined obliquely outwards, but not fractured; the fifth is shifted inwards very slightly as to its outer, but more so as to its inner margin ; the fifth is shifted outwards; submarginal band very indistinct; submedian area paler. Secondaries with pattern more distinct than in primaries ; four basal spots below each other, the third shifted outwards, followed by three larger spots below each other; cell closed by a subquadrate spot, below which is a small spot in the lower median angle : transverse catenulated band composed of eight spots from the costal nervure ; the second largish, shifted well outwards and slightly dislocated from the third, which is shifted right outwards ; fourth shifted outwards again ; fifth inwards, and having a very oval exterior margin; sixth outwards, with a straight margin ; seventh angular spot dislocated right inwards, eighth slightly inwards ; submarginal row fairly distinct; anal area darker, with superimposed pale bluish-green metallic scales. 5 . Upperside: both wings bright lustrous azure; primaries with rather broad costa and very broad black outer margins; secondaries with broad even black margins all round; abdominal fold greyish. Underside just like the male, with two exceptions, viz., that there is a trace of a spot on the costa over the third cell-spot in the primaries, and in the secondaries the second and third spots of the transverse band are not dislocated. All the other markings are exactly the same in every particular. This species will follow A. metamuta, Hew., but it can easily be distinguished by both wings being the same colour. Types, e mus. Staudinger. |
