Figs.1-2. Hypolycaena sohmai Takanami,1994, male, holotype (Sohma Coll.)
Male. Body: Antenna with rather abrupt cylindrical club; club black, pale
brown apically; shaft checkered with black and white; nudum confined to
club; segments number 26. Eyes hairy. Palpi with third segment as long
as second segment, clothed with long scales, not prominently hairy. Tarsi
and tibiae banded with black and white scales. Fore tarsus spinous ventrally,
ending in a tapered, down-curved point. Thorax and abdomen dark grey with
bluish scales dorsally, white ventrally.
Forewing length: 16 mm.
Male genitalia: Dorsum large; sociuncus rounded in lateral view; brachium
long, hooked; a well-marked ridge between tegumen and vinculum; vinculum
broad; saccus short produced; valvae rather small, distal half bifurcated;
juxta obsolete; phallus long, rather slender; vesica with a pair of long
and spinous cornuti.
Female. Recently discovered. It is enjoyable for next time!
Holotype. Male, Pulu Pulu, alt. ca. 1,800 m, north of Rantepao, near Palopo,
Sulawesi Selatan, 25. ix. 1984, in Mr K. Sohma Collection (Tama/Tokyo).
This species resembles Hypolycaena shirozui (H. Hayashi, 1981) on
the upperside, and Hypolycaena umbrata Seki & Takanami, 1988
on the underside, but is easily distinguished from the latter two species
in having an additional orange bar in the middle of the cell on the underside
of both wings.
Figs.3-4. Jamides tsukadai Takanami,1994, male,holotype (Tsukada Coll.)
Male. Upperside of wings: Resembling Jamides celeno kalawarus (Ribbe,
1926) from Palu area in central Sulawesi; androconial scale absent; ground
colour chalk white; distal dark greyish brown borders very broad on both
wings; a marginal white line with an obscure submarginal white lunure at
each space on hindwing. Underside of wings: Resembling Jamides snelleni
(Roeber, (l886) and Jamides cyta zelea (Fruhstorfer, 1916) both
from Sulawesi: ground colour greyish brown with a faint purplish tint,
rather darker than in snelleni and cyta; forewing with white
striae as in cyta, but a pair of whitish bars additionally present
in spaces 9, 10 and 11; hindwing markings as in snelleni and cyta,
except the band of postdiscal white striae completely dislocated at vein
1b, with the portion in space lb shift outwardly. Forewing length: 15-18
mm. Wing shape roundish, like that of Jamides philatus philatus
(Snellen, 1878). Tail about 2.5 mm in length.
Male genitalia: Resembling those of Jamides celeno, but the bifurcate
distal process of valvae prominently elongated in this species. Phallus
with spinous cornuti, but without the terminal spine-like process (Chapman's
process).
Female. Really unknown.
Holotype. Male. (Forewing length, 18 mm), Kulawi, nr Palu, Sulawesi Tengah,
8. ii. 1982, preserved in Mr Etsuzo Tsukada Collection (Azumino Butterflies
Research Institute, Matsumoto/Nagano). Paratypes : 2 males, nr Palopo,
Sulawesi Selatan, ix. 1978, preserved in the same location as holotype
; 1 male, Ranteballa, fir Palopo, Sulawesi Selatan, 3. ix. 1982,
Figs.5-6. Jamides halus Takanami,1994, male, holotype (Tsukada Coll.)
Male. Upperside of wings: Resembling Jamides callistus (Roeber,
1886) from the Philippines; androconial scale absent; ground colour shining
pale sky blue with slight lilac tint, rather duller than in callistus;
forewing distal margin narrowly blackened, broadened towards tornus; hindwing
marginal and submarginal black markings more prominent than in Jamides
callisus amastris (Fruhstorfer, 1916) from Mindanao. Underside of wings:
All the markings like those of Jamides pseudosias echeilea (Fruhstorfer,
1916) from Sulawesi, but differing in the followings; ground colour light
greyish brownith yellow tone, lighter than in echeilea; whitish
striae rather diffuse, slightly tinged with yellow; forewing postdiscal
whitish striae in spaces 1b-3 not forming a band with the bars at the end
of cell; discal and postdiscal bands of whitish striae on both wings inwardly
darker edged. Tail about 5 mm in length. Forewing length: 16-18 mm.
Male genitalia: Resembling those of Jamides pseudosias and Jamides
alecto latimargus (Snellen, 1878) from Sulawesi, but vinculum
strongly angled, and the trunk of valvae warped and the apical process
outwardly pointed.
Female. Upperside of wings: Forewing pale sky bluish white, with very broad
marginal dark greyish brown borders ; hindwing greyish brown with discal
faint bluish scales, and marginal and submarginal whitish markings. Underside
of wings: same as in the male. Forewing length: 16 mm.
Holotype. Male (forewing length, 18 mm), Palopo, Sulawesi Selatan, ix.
1978. Paratypes: 1 male, same data as in holotype; 1 female, Bantinmurung,
Sulawesi, Selatan, x. 1980. All the types are preserved in Mr Etsuzo Tsukada
Collection (Azumino Butterflies Research Institute, Matsumoto/Nagano).
Figs.7-8. Jamides elioti Hirowatari & Cassidy,1994, male, holotype (NHM)
Male. Upperside of wings shining pale sky blue, resembling Jamides callistus
callistus (Roeber, 1886) from the Philippines. Battledore androconia
present. Forewing with whitish discal area, marginal border very narrow,
represented by blackish grey cilia. Hindwing with submarginal black spots.
Underside of wings light greyish brown. Forewing, the pair of postdiscal
white striae in spaces 4-6 dislocated, shifted basad at vein 6; a pair
of whitish bars present in spaces 9 and 10; submarginal area rather darker
than ground color. Hindwing, as in J. aratus lunatus (de Niceville,
1898) and J. snelleni (Roeber, 1886), with the submarginal black
spots wedge-shaped in spaces 3-5, and the spot in space 6 largest and quadrate;
submarginal spot with orange lunule smaller than that of the two above-mentioned
species. [From the original description]
Male genitalia. Dorsum small. Tegumen narrow, dorsal portion narrow. Brachium
long and slender, ending in minute hook. Socius small, rounded. Juxta Y-shaped.
Phallus relatively long; subzonal sheath 2.5 X as long as suprazonal sheath;
suprazonal sheath with a Chapman's process; vesica with a triangular spiny
cornutus. Valva long, terminating in an inwardly curved hook, and with
a postero-inwardly pointed spine at the middle of the dorsal margin. [From
the original description]
Female. recently known [news!, The details may be in next version]
Holotype. Male, forewing length 16 mm. Palolo. near Palu, Sulawesi, iv.
1984, in the Natural History Museum, London. Paratype. 1 male, Forewing
length 13 mm, Dumoga-Bone National Park, North Sulawesi, Sg. Tumpah, 13.
vi. 1985. L. Kirton.