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Show 1896.] MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCENID.E. 673 much as in T. Indra, Moore, but has a much larger white area than any females we possess from Continental India. TAJURIA DOMINUS, H. H. Druce. This may be the male of T. Isceus, Hew., Hewitson's male T. isceus being in fact Britomartis cleoboldes, Elwes, as pointed out Mr. de Niceville in the Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. ix. p. 307. Dr. Staudinger has sent m e a male from Malacca which is very close to T. dominus, but has a greener shade of blue on the upper-side and the orange at the anal angle below is more yellow. I have also received a female T. dominus from Kina Balu, and note that the blue on the upper surface is more shining and that the outer margin of the fore wing is certainly more convex than in the female from Malacca. If Mr. Distant's type male of T. relata should prove to be a female, then most probably the male referred to above from Malacca is the male relata; but for the present I do not think it is advisable to sink T. dominus. I, however, fail to see how Mr. de Niceville can form the conclusion, from the possession of a female T. relata from Perak that agrees exactly with Hewitson's fig. 14, pl. xix., that " Hewitson was correct in the first instance in calling his original type a male " (vide J. B. N. H . S. vol. ix. p. 308). Mr. de Niceville has described the genus Britomartis as having only two subcostal nervules to the fore wing, and his B. buto is also described as having but two; in the figure given of this species (J. B. N. H. S. vol. ix. pl. P. fig. 41), three subcostal nervules are distinctly shown, doubtless in error. Colonel Swinhoe has lately described Tajuria valentia \ which, according to Mr. de Niceville, is the same as Britomartis cleoboldes, as that species is the T. mantra of the ' Butterflies of India, etc' TAJURIA BLANKA ? Tajuria blanka, de Nicev. J. A. S. B. vol. lxiii. p. 39, pl. iv. fig. 4, 2 (1894). ' Kina Balu (Waterstr.). Dr. Staudinger has sent a fine female specimen which agrees well with Mr. de Niceville's figure and with his description in all points, excepting as regards the thorax below, which he describes as drab; in the specimen before m e it is white. Dr. Staudinger writes that it is certainly the female of Pratapa lucldus, mihi. The female of P. clppus is, I believe, unknown, so that we cannot judge by analogy; but, despite the different appearance of the underside, I think it is quite possible that Dr. Staudinger is right. Mr. de Niceville and Dr. Martin record two specimens of Camena cippus, Fabr., from Sumatra, but there is no note as to their sex. Can these be specimens of m y P. lucldus, which certainly occurs in Sumatra ? If, as I suspect, these two specimens should turn 1 Tajuria valentia, Swinh. Ann. Mag. l^at. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xvii. p. 358 ( |