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Show 1895.] MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCEENIDEE. 605 anal margin, not becoming linear as in Z. etolus. There are metallic scales at the anal angle. 2 • Upperside much like that sex of H. skapane, mihi, with the wdiite area larger. Underside as male. The male has a small blackish, inconspicuous, " sexual mark " on the fore wing, placed on the median nervules at their origin, whilst the hind wings of both sexes appear to be more produced anally than either of the other species of the genus. Expanse, cf 2 > li inch. Kina Balu (Waterstr.). Types Mus. Staud. The thorax and abdomen in the male, when the insect is held at an angle, appear even more brilliant than the wings. H. phemis is not unlike the West-African H. hatita l, Hew., on the upperside, but the tails are shorter. CHLIARIA, Moore. CHLIARIA MIMIMA, sp. n. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 1 J .) cf 2 • Allied to C. othona, Hew. Upperside differs from that species by the blue being of a paler and greyer shade and reduced to a patch below the median nervure in the fore wdng. The underside differs from that of C. othona by the costa, apex, and outer margin of the fore wing being suffused with orange, by the discal bands in both wdngs being straighter, less broken, and of equal wddtb their whole length. The black spot on costa of the fore wing and also the two on tbe costa of the hind wing are present but smaller. Expanse, cf 1, $ 14- inch. Kina Balu and Labuan ( Waterstr.). Distinguished at once by the different underside. The types are in Dr. Staudinger's collection. W e also possess this species from N.E. Sumatra, but on the upperside the blue extends over the cell in the fore wing. ZELTUS, de Nicev. ZELTUS ETOLUS. Papilio etolus, Fab. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 66 (1787). Hypolyccena etolus, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 351. Kina Balu (Wederstr.) ; Labuan (Low). In all tbe specimens I have seen the apices of the wings below are much suffused with rich reddish brown. It is a common insect at Labuan. PSEUDOMYRINA, gen. nov. Allied to Tajuria, Moore. Fore wing more arched ; the apex more rounded, and the inner margin distinctly convex. Venation much the same, but the cell of the fore wing distinctly shorter aud broader. Hind wing with a large oval glandular patch near the 1 H. hatita, Hew. 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye. p. 51, pi. xxiii. figs. 21-24 (1865). |
