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Show 582 MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYC.ENID.E. [June 18, LAMPIDES CEERULEA. (Plate XXXII. fig. 19 2 •) Cupido ceerulea, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 349, pi. xxxii. fig. 6. Lampides ceerulea, H. H. Druce, Ent. Mo. Mag. ser. 2, vol. v. p. 9 (1894). Lampides bochides, de Nicev. J. B. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 367, pi. F. fig. 15. Kina Balu ( Waterstr.) ; Elopura (Pryer) ; Labuan (Loiv) ; S.E. Borneo, near Banjarmasin ( Wahnes). Two specimens before me, which I take to be females of this species, are paler shining blue on the upperside and the outer margins of both wings are evenly black bordered ; the apex of the fore wdng widest. On the underside the ground-colour is paler than the male, and the bands, which are arranged exactly as in the male, are wider and pure white. LAMPIDES ABDUL. Lampides abdul, Distant, Ehop. Malay, p. 456, pi. xliv. fig. 22 (1886); Distant & Pryer, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xix. p. 267 (1887). Sandakan (Pryer). Mr. de Niceville states that this species belongs to this group (Butt. Ind. etc. iii. p. 166, 1890). I have not seen a specimen. Group II. LAMPIDES OSIAS. Plebeius osias, Eober, Iris, i. p. 56, pi. v. fig. 17 (1886). Lyccena amphyssina, Staud. Lep. Palawan, p. 100, t. i. fig. 4, 2 (1889). Kudat; Labuan (Low) ; Sibutu (Everett). Dr. Staudinger has kindly sent me the types of his L. amphyssina, which do not differ in the slightest from L. osias, which, as has been already pointed out by Herr Semper *, must be sunk as a synonym 2. 1 Schmett. Phil. Insel. p. 179 (1889). 2 W e possess a good series of a species belonging to this group, which I can find nowhere described, and propose to call it L. emetallicus, sp. n. Allied to L. amphissa, Feld., d 2 • Upperside as that species. Underside : ground-colour darker, the lines narrower and more irregular; the groundcolour between the two submarginal zigzag lines of the fore wing distinctly darker than the rest of the wing. Hind wing : a very small orange spot close to the margin, just above the submedian nervure ; the black spot between the 1st and 2nd median nervules only, crowned with orange and without any metallic-blue scales whatever. Expanse as L. amphissa. Batchian (Doherty). Type Mus. Druce, also in Mus. S. & G. Allied to L. amphissa, Feld., and L. amphissina, Grose Smith a, and also to L. lucianus, Rober, from which latter it differs in the arrangement of the white line9 in the fore wing; but differing, so far as I know, from all others in the absence of all metallic scales near the anal angle of the hind wing below. • L. amphissina, Grose Smith, Novitates Zoological, vol. i. p. 577, 1894. Is not this name too near to " amphyssina " to stand ? |
