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Show 580 MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCEENIDEE. [June 18, Kina Balu (Waterstr.). Dr. Staudinger has sent m e a fine specimen ( d ) of what I take to be this interesting species ; it differs slightly, however, from Mr. Distant's description of the underside as follows :-The fore wing has only one small fuscous spot in the middle of the cell; on the hind wdng the fuscous spot beneath the outermost black spot on the costal margin and the fuscous spot in the cell are both wanting. The genera Una, de Nicev., and Prosotas1, mihi, agree very closely in venation, but have a very different general appearance, whilst the palpi of Prosotas are shorter and the antennae less spatulate. JAMIDES, Hiibn. J A M I D E S BOCHUS. Papilio bochus, Cr. Pap. Exot. vol. iv. p. 210, pi. cccxci. figs. C, D (1782). Kina Balu (Waterstr.) ; Labuan (Low). All the Bornean males I have examined have the blue area of the fore wing much contracted. LAMPIDES, Hiibn. After working carefully through the described species of tbis genus, I find four Bornean species which I am unable to match with any of them, and am, though with considerable reluctance, obliged to describe them here. Although Mr. de Niceville has paid much attention to the genus, and, having seen some of Felder's types, has, in a paper (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. pp. 364-368, 1891) published after his ' Butterflies of India, etc,' considerably altered some statements made in that work, much yet remains to be doue to put the genus into a satisfactory condition ; and until some one has the opportunity to carefully compare the types of the numerous species described by Herr Bo ber in ' Iris ' i., and those of Felder and others, I fear it will still be so. After carefully studying Herr Kober's figures I am of opinion that they are by far the best yet published of this difficult group and not, as has been stated, difficult to make out. Group I.2 L A M P I D E S ELPIS. Polyommatus elpis, Godt. Enc. Meth. vol. xix. p. 654 (1823). Lampides elpis, Distant & Pryer, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xix. p. 267 (1887). Cupido alecto, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 348. Kudat; Sandakan and Elopura (Pryer); Kina Balu (Waterstr.) ; Labuan (Low) ; Lawas (Everett). 1 Prosotas, mihi, P. Z. S. 1891, p. 366. Type P. caliyinosa, mihi, from tbe Solomon Is. 2 I have arranged the species here according to the groups given by M . de Niceville in J. B. Nat. Hist. Soc. pp. 365, 366 (1891). |