365 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURRAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



striga is joined to No. 1, or lies between it and No. 2, thereby 

 forming 1 with them a Y-shaped figure, of which the Nos. 1 and 2 

 strigae represent the converging arms ; while the lower portion of 

 No. 4 striga is joined on to, and is continuous with, No. 3. This 

 arrangement of the characteristic strigae is found usually in the 

 L. celianus group, which, however, may be known from the two groups 

 above mentioned by the males being coloured bluish milky-white 

 on the upperside instead of metallic azure-blue ; and more notably 

 still by the characteristic strigae Nos. 1 and 2 being 1 continued right 

 up to the costa in disconnected dots, this feature never obtaining in 

 the other two groups. This third group is represented in my collec- 

 tion by 



1. L. celianus, Fabricius. 



2. L. celeno, Cramer. 



3. L. aratus, Cramer (L. mam, Doherty, is a synonym of 



this species). 



4. L. cleodus, Felder. 



5. L. kinkurka, Felder. 



6. L. pura, Moore. 



I have re-described L. latimargus from a single example, for which 

 I am indebted to the collector, Mr. W. Doherty. 



I made a terrible muddle of three species of this genus in "The 

 Butterflies of India," although there is no part of that volume on 

 which more care was expended. Having since visited Europe and 

 examined the types of L. contscans, Moore, L. kondulana, Felder, 

 and L. kankena, Felder, I am now able to correct my previous 

 mistakes. L. coruscans is a very distinct species, and is probably con- 

 fined to the island of Ceylon. It is very deep rich blue on the up- 

 perside in the male approaching my L. bocMdes in that respect; on 

 the underside of both wings in both sexes the second and third white 

 lines from the outer margin are highly zigzaged, which character in 

 Indian species is only found in L. subdita, Moore, a species which 

 in other respects is abundantly distinct. 



With regard to L. kondulana, Felder, all my remarks on page 175 

 of my book refer to L. kankena, Felder. L. kondulana is what I 

 mistook for L. coruscans; my remarks on pages 163 and 164 refer, 

 therefore, to L. kondulana. The male is rich blue on the upperside, 

 and the species may be known from L. elpis, Godart, by this colour 



