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Show 612 MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCEENIDEE. [June 18, H. affinis and H. corniculum both possess the oval ochreous patch on the underside of the fore wing near the middle of the submedian nervure. HORAGA MEENALA. Myrina meenala, Hew. 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye. (Supp.) p. 7, pi. iii. figs. 85,86 (1869). Borneo (Hew.). This insect is known to me only by Hewitson's type in the British Museum. It is, I believe, the only species of the group without a white discal spot on the fore wdng above. CATAPffiCILMA, Butler. CATAPOZCILMA ELEGANS. Hypochrysops elegans, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 351, pi. xxxii. fig. 12. Catapcecilma elegans, Distant & Pryer, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xix. p. 267 (1887). Labuan (Low and Waterstr.) ; Sandakan (Pryer). The two Bornean specimens (females) before me differ from Sikkim examples by the central band on tbe fore wing below being straight, not Y-shaped, as appears to be invariably the case in Indian specimens, also in those from Ceylon, and again from Sumatra. On such slight material I do not propose to admit at present that the Indian representatives belong to a distinct species (they are certainly not typical), but in the event of their requiring a name I would suggest major. The type is in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's Collection, aud is in rather bad condition. The figure given in the P. Z. S. 1873, pi. xxxii. fig. 12, is a very poor one, but suffices to show that the band on the fore wdng is straight. Since the above was written Dr. Staudinger has sent me a male from Labuan which differs from Sikkim males by being entirely without the black outer margins to both wdngs on the upperside. SEMANGA, Distant. (Keraunogramma, Eober.) SEMANGA SUPERBA. Ilerdal superba, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 350, pi. xxxii. fig. 11, d • Upperside dark shining purple with brown borders; fore wing with a large central patch of darker, differently-placed scales ; hind wing wdth an orange patch divided by the brown nervules as in the $ . Underside as 2 • Hind wdng with two tails only, viz., a short one on the lower median nervule and a rather long one on the submedian nervure. Labuan (Low and Waterstr.). |