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Show 594 MR. H. H. DEUCE ON BORNEAN LYCEENIDEE. [June 18, Mr. Moore's type is now in the British Museum Collection. Mr. Bethune-Baker will doubtless decide whether the insects from India afterwards described by Hewitson in the British Museum Catalogue as A. epimuta are identical with the type. CURETIS, Hiibn. Mr. de Niceville has expressed the opinion that there are but two species of this genus occurring wdthin Indian limits (Butt. Tnd. etc. vol. iii. p. 285), and later (p. 291) that C. eesopus is a distinct connecting link between these two. In arranging the Bornean species I have found the same difficulty in pairing the females as he mentions with regard to those from India. So far as I can ascertain, the ochreous-coloured female is the only form that is found in Borneo, as I have not come across a single white one. CURETIS TAGALICA. Anops tagalica, Feld. Eeise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 221, pi. xxviii. figs. 19, 20 (1865). Curetis tagalica, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 353. Labuan (Low). C. tagalica is scarcely distinguishable from C. pheedrus, Fab., on the upperside, but on the underside Bornean specimens are usually very strongly suffused with blackish brown. CURETIS NESOPHILA. Phaedra nesophila, Feld. Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 289 (1862). Curetis barsine, Druce, P. Z. S, 1873, p. 353 (nee Feld.). Kina Balu (Waterstr.) ; Sarawak (Platen) ; Labuan (Low, Waterstr., and Wahnes). In C. nesophila the cupreous red does not extend above the subcostal nervure in the fore wing except just at the base. Mr. Herbert Druce referred these specimens to C. barsine, Feld., from Amboina, which has a female with white spots on the discs; but as there appears to be no evidence of any white females occurring in Borneo, I think it better to place them under P. nesophila. CURETIS MINIMA. Curetis minima, Distant & Pryer, Ann. &Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xix. p. 265 (1887). Sandakan (Pryer). I have not seen this species, which is described as being near to G. insularis, Horsf., from Java. CURETIS EESOPUS. Papilio eesopus, Fab. Sp. Ins. vol. ii. p. 125 (1781). Kina Balu (Wederstr.); Labuan (Wederstr. and Wedmes) ; S.E. Borneo, near Banjarmasin ( Wahnes). |