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Show 670 MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCJ3NID.E. [June 16, very fine outer margin in the primaries ; in the secondaries the costa is broadly brown, the outer margin very narrowly black; abdominal fold dark grey ; no tail. Underside : both wings dull ochreous brown, with spots slightly darker, palely edged. Primaries with three small increasing cell-spots, below the third a small spot, and a trace of a spot above on the costa: transverse maculate band composed of five distinct spots, beginning below the third subcostal nervule ; the second spot is shifted inwards and the third outwards, these first three all being outwardly oblique; fourth spot shifted well inwards and being almost dislocated; fifth spot inclined outwards and ending above the lower median nervule ; submarginal row indistinct and indefinite; submedian and subdiscal area greyish. Secondaries with pattern rather plainer than in the primaries ; four basal spots below each other, the third shifted outwards, followed by three somewhat larger spots below each other ; cell closed by a subovate spot, below which is a small triangular one : transverse maculate band composed of eight spots, the first six being distinct spots, the second shifted outwards, third outwards, fourth outwards again, fifth well inwards, sixth outwards, seventh angular spot dislocated right inwards, eighth long spot almost confluent with this ; submarginal row more distinct than in primaries; lobe-spot black, and a trace of a black spot in each of the next two nervule interspaces, over which are imposed bright greenish-blue scales. 2 • Upperside : both wings brown, slightly tinged with purple; primaries with a patch of violet over the cell, the subdiscal area, and half of the median area; secondaries with the violet almost confined to the cell. Underside exactly like the male, but with the pattern slightly more distinct. This is nearest to A. antlmuia, Feld. (davisonl, de Nicev.), but is a larger insect and purpler in colour, whilst beneath the colour is different and the transverse maculate bands are differently arranged, as described. In the female the violet patch is of quite a different colour and occupies less space in the primaries, and in the secondaries there is not a quarter so much as in A. antimuta. Its correct position will be between A. hypomuta, Hew., and A. antimuta, Feld. A male from N. Borneo (H. G. Smith) ; female from Sandakan (G. J. B.-B.). Female also in Mus. Druce, from Sandakan. ARHOPALA ELOPURA, H. II. Druce. (Plate XXIX. fig. 6, c? •) I have figured the type male. [We have recently received a male from Sandakan.-H. H. B.~\ ARHOPALA SANDAKANI, n. sp. (Plate XXXI. fig. 2, c?.) Sandakan ; Java. Expanse, c? 35-45, 2 42 millim. c? . Upperside : both wings bright bluish purple, rather dull in |