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The butterfly, in both sexes, is as a rule — although there are smaller specimens — 

 much larger than L. Pseudelpis Butl., (Kondulana Felder) with which it has 

 in common the marking of white lines on the underside. The colour of blue 

 on the upperside of the c? is, moreover, less glassy than in that species, and 

 somewhat greenish; while there is a distinct marking along the outer margin 

 of the primaries, which is absent in the Pseudelpis. In the 9 the black or 

 dark grey along the costal margin of the primaries continues much further, often 

 as far as the base of the wing. I have not observed any seasonal variations 

 here, either. 



The larva, according to Bingham, has been found in British India upon 

 the flowers and seeds of the cultivated cardamon, and upon Koempfoeria Pan- 

 DURATA. He describes it as " very similar to that of L. Celeno Cram. (Alexis 

 Stoll?), but of a pink hue, with well-defined stripes of red dorsally and laterally." 

 The pupa has been found " inside the fruit, or in the cluster of dead flowers 

 above the fruit," it is „smooth, and of a dull yellowish brown, marked with 

 interrupted bands of a darker brown. In shape it is similar to that of L. 

 Celeno Cram." 



II. Cunilda Sn. (PI. XXI, a, b). 



Snellen, Tijdschr. v. Entovi., XXXIX, bid. gi,//. \, fig i\ 



(i8g6) Lycaena Cunilda. 



This species is described and reproduced by Snellen in the article quoted, 

 from a Javan specimen from the collection of Staudinger ; later on I captured 

 a pair in the Prayangan mountains in coitu. 



W. J. A c? from the vicinity of the Wijnkoopsbay or Pelabouan Ratou 

 on the south coast (±150); a pair from the Prayangan mts. and 3 c? without 

 further indication of place of capture. 



C. J.? 



E. J.? 



Snellen notes in regard to this species, that in the colour of the upper- 

 side it is related to L. Suidas Felder, but in the marking upon the underside 

 to L Elpis Gdt. 



His further description runs as follows : Upperside of the wings of c? purple- 

 blue, darker than in Elpis, and, especially on the primaries, the outer margin 

 also for a third of its length darker, but without the black outer margin to the 

 primaries peculiar to Suidas and Elpis. Upon the secondaries there is along 

 the black fringe line, from the wing tip to vein 4, a row of faintly arched 

 dull black stripes, which are edged outwards with white, towards the base 



