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Show 676 MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCENIDJJ:. [June 16 CHLIARIA MIMIMA, H. H. Druce. The specimens I referred to from N.E. Sumatra, P. Z. S. 1895 p. 605, are I think, the C. tora, Kheil. C. mimima is very close to that species, but besides the less extensive blue area above, there is a slight difference on the underside, tbe large black spot on the outer margin of the hind wing of C. tora being surrounded on all sides except, its outer edge with yellow, whilst C. mimima has this yellow on its inner and anal sides only. I am inclined to believe that the insect which Mr. de Niceville has described and figured as the female of C. tora, Kheil \ is not that sex of C. tora but of C. amabilis, de Nicev.2 W e possess a female from N.E. Sumatra which on the underside is exactly like that of C. tora <5, and like that possesses a small black spot on tbe costa of the fore wing and a large and a small black spot on the costa of tbe hind wing. These spots are distinctly shown in Herr Kheil's figure. O n the upperside the fore wing is dull brown, immaculate, and the costal half of the hind wing is of the same colour, the anal half being dull greyish white, with a marginal row of indistinct blackish spots between the nervules increasing in size towards the anal angle, a black anteciliary line inwardly bordered by a narrow white line ; cilia white. Tails short as in male. Tbe very worn female specimen referred to by Mr. de Niceville (op. cit. p. 312), from Borneo, is doubtless that sex of the species I have named C. phemls. Dr. Staudinger has sent me a male Javan specimen of C. amabilis, which has the tails considerably longer than are shown in Mr. de Niceville's figure. CHARANA, de Nicev. CHARANA MANDAR1NUS, Hew. Myrlna mandarlnus, H e w . HI. Diurn. Lep., Bycaen. p. 28, t. 11. figs. 6, 7 (1863). Kina Balu ( Waterstr.). Dr. Staudinger has received a single female specimen, which differs from any Indian females I have seen by having a greater area of white on the hind wing above and by the yellow on the hind wing below being nearly all replaced by white ; the black angular markings and spots towards the anal angle are larger and more prominent, so it may possibly represent a different species, but until the male is discovered it is impossible to be certain. MANTO, de Nicev. Manto, de Nicev. Journ. Bomb. Nat. HisL Soc. vol. ix. p. 312, March 1895. Pseudomyrma, H. H . Druce, P. Z. S. October 1895. The name wdiich I proposed must be sunk as a synonym. 1 C. tora, de Nicev. J. B. N. H. S. vol. ix. p. 311. pl. P. fig. 43, $ (1895). 2 C. amabilis, de Nic6v. id. p. 306, pl. P. fig. 42, o (1895). |