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Show 1896.] MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYC.ENIDiE. 681 DEUDORIX, Hew. DEUDORIX DIARA, Swinhoe. (Plate XXXI. fig. 14, c?.) Deudorix diara, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xvii. p. 357 (1896). c?. Allied to B. epljarbas, Moore; upperside does not differ : underside differs from that species by the ground-colour being principally sordid white, and crossed by broad bands of olivaceous brown in place of white lines; the edges of these bands being arranged as are the white lines in B. epljarbas, the only lines showing being those on the outer margins and the usual double-angled lines at the anal angle ; black spots and metallic scales at angle as in B. epljarbas; head, thorax, and abdomen above and below as in B. epljarbas. Expanse 14 inch. Kina Balu ( Waterstr.). Waterstradt has sent two specimens of this very distinct looking insect, and Col. Swinhoe has it from the Jaintia Hills. Since the above given description was written I find that Colonel Swinhoe has already named the insect. DEUDORIX STREPHANUS, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 15, d.) c?. Upperside rich dark shining purple, with the costal apex and outer margins of both wings narrowly dark brown ; disc of fore wing below the median nervure and median interspaces of hind wing dusted with rich dark reddish-orange scales (in one specimen almost absent in the hind wing); lobe very small, with a black spot crowned with a few pale blue scales; a few pale blue scales dusted at the base of the tail, which is black with a white tip; anal fold pale brown; cilia of fore wing brown; of hind wing brown, excepting at anal angle and along anal margin, where it is pure white. Underside almost exactly as in Bapala hypargyria, Elwes1, but there appear to be four black spots in the upper series. Head and thorax black above; frons, palpi (with black tips), and thorax white below; abdomen black above, white below; antenna? black above, white-spotted beneath. Expanse 1|-1T^ inch. Kina Balu (Waterstr.). Type Mus. Staud. B. strephanus is a true Beudorlx, being without the shining patch and tuft of hairs as in B. epljarbas, Moore, and is remarkable tor its close similarity to Rapcda hypargyria on the underside. BAPALA, Moore. BAPALA R A R T H E M A , Distant. Waterstradt has sent a considerable number more males of this species, some of which have a very faint indication of a cupreous disc to the fore wing above, but none have any trace of the purple suffusion of R. suffusa, Moore, 1 B. hypargyria, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 043, pl. xliii. fig. 7, c?- PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1896. No. XLIV. 44 |