224 EHOPALOCERA MALAY AN A. 



rounded with a single slender tail-like appendage at apex of lower median nervtile ; costal nervure strongly 

 arched and extending to near apex, first subcostal nervule emitted at about one-fourth before the end of 

 cell • first and second median ncrvulcs with an apparently common origin at end of cell, third from about 

 centre of cell. Palpi porrect, second joint broadly squamose, third joint long and slender. Antennas with 

 a well-formed apical club which is excavated beneath. 



This genus is widely distributed: from Continental India, it extends throughout the 

 Malayan Archipelago, and has been generally found among the islands of the Southern Seas. 

 At present only three species can be here enumerated. 



1. Catochrysops strabo. (Tab. XXI., tig. 8 <? , 14 5 .) 



Ihsperia Strabo, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 287, n. 101 (1793). 

 Polyonwiatiis Strabo, Godt. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 656, n. 134 (18281. 

 Lijcana Kandarpa, Horsf. Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 82, n. 17 (1829). 



Catochrysops Strabo, Boisd. Voy. Astr. Lep. p. 88 (1832) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 91, t. 37, f. 2, 2a (1881). 

 Lampides Strabo, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 165, n. 14 (1869); Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 667, u. 12; Wood- 

 Mas. & de Nic. J. A. S. B. vol. l. p. 234, n. 32 (1881) ; ibid., p. 248, n. 53 (1881). 

 Cupido Strabo, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 106, n. 3; SueU, Tijd. Ent. xxi. p. 18, n. 82 (1878). 

 Lycana Strabo, Snell. Tijd. Ent. xis. p. 152, n. 46 (1876). 



Male. Wings above pale lavender-blue, the outer margins narrowly dark fuscous, the fringe pale 

 fuscous, with the tips greyish-white ; posterior wings with a large black marginal spot between the second 

 and third median nervules, a narrow transverse black streak bordered with greyish at anal angle, the 

 abdominal margin bluish-grey, the tail-like appendage black with the apex white. Wings beneath very 

 pale greyish-brown, with the following linear greyish-white fascite arranged in pairs : — anterior with two 

 disco-cellular at end of cell, two extending from fourth subcostal nervule to middle median nervule, 

 beneath which, contiguous to their inner margin, are two extending to inner margin, and a marginal 

 and two submarginal somewhat waved linear fascifc of the same colour ; posterior wings with two at end 

 of cell, two very irregularly waved and broken crossing wing beyond middle, and marginal and waved 

 submarginal fascia;, two small greyish margined spots near base, one in cell and one beneath median 

 nervure, a large l)lack marginal spot, containing a few scattered greenish scales and inwardly and broadly 

 margined with ochraceous between second and third median nervules, some transverse black spots also 

 inwardly margined with ochraceous at anal angle, and with two blackish spots margined with greyish 

 beneath the costal nervure. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. Wings above pale brownish ; anterior wings with the disk more or less bright violaceous- 

 blue, beyond wliich tliere are indications of a double submarginal series of waved and broken greyish linear 

 fascife, becoming quite obsolete towards apex ; posterior wings with a distinct double submarginal series 

 of waved and broken greyish linear fasciae, with a large marginal black spot inwardly and very broadly 

 margined with ochraceous situate between the second and third median nervules, and a series of more of 

 less distinct dark marginal spots. Wings beneath as in male. 



Exp. wings, 3 and 5 , 2C to 32 millim. 



Had.— Continental India ; N.W. Himalaya (Hocking— coll. Moore). — Ceylon (Thwaites- coll. Dist.). — 

 Andaman Islands (Wood-Mas. & de Nic.).— Nicobar Islands ; Nankowri, Trinkut, Kamorta, Takoin (Wood- 

 Mas. & de Nic). — Burma ; Moulmein (Brit. Mus.). — Malay Peninsula ; Penang, Province Wellesley (coll. 

 Dist.).- Pcrak (Townsend— coll. Godm. & Salv.) ; Malacca (Biggs— coll. Dist.) ; Singapore (Kerr — coll. 

 Dist.).— Java ; Batavia (Snell.).— Celebes (Snell. & coll. Dist.).— Philippine Islands; Mindanao (Challenger 

 Exp. — Brit. Mus.). — Siam; Nahconchaisee (Druce). — Formosa (Brit. Mus.). 



