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Show 618 MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCEENIDEE. [June 18, M. surindra may prove to be a seasonal form of M. moorei, but at present we have no evidence in that respect. The var. albula appears to be as common as the typical form at Sandakan, whence all the specimens I have examined have come. Messrs. Godman and Salvin possess a male and female from Palawan, which agree with var. albula. Dr. Staudinger has sent me the types of his S. ravindrina, d 2 ' these agree with S. surindra, but on the underside the fore wings are bright ochreous yellow. Messrs. Distant and Pryer record D. ( = M.) ravindra, Horsfield, from Sandakan, but as the specimens represent M. surindra I have not included the species in my list. EOOXYLIDES, de Nicev. EOOXYLIDES THARIS. Oxylides tharis, Hiibn. Zutr. exot. Schmett. figs. 883, 884 (1837). Sithon tharis, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 351. Hypolyceena tharis, Distant & Pryer, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xix. p. 268 (1887). Kina Balu (Everett and Waterstr.); Trusan (Everett); Labuan (Low) ; Sarawak (Staud.) ; Sandakan. Bornean specimens of this insect show scarcely any (and in some ex imples no) trace of the blue scales along the inner margin of the fore wing above, in the male, which character seems best developed in specimens from Nias Island, which possess it in a marked degree-in one example in our collection it extends from the margin to the middle of the cell -. EOOXYLIDES ETIAS. Hypolyccena etias, Distant & Pryer, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xix. p. 268 (1887). Sandakan (Pryer). I have not seen this species, and have placed it in this genus judging from the description and the remark that it is allied to H. (= E.) tharis. It appears to have a more extensive white area on the hind wing above than that species. LOXURA, Horsf. LOXURA ATYMNUS. Papilio atymnus, Cr. Pap. Exot. vol. iv. p. 82, pi. cccxxxi. figs. D, E (1780). Myrina alymnus, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 353. Loxura cassiopea, Distant & Pryer, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xix. p. 269 (1887). 1 Myrina meduana, Hew., which has been referred to Eooxylides by Herr Semper (Reise Phil. Ins.), has the glandular patch in the male oblong and placed at the end of the cell. The neuration, however, appears to be much the same. |