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This widely distributed species seems little affected by modifying agencies, as it appears 

 quite constant in form and colour, though the figure given by Mr. Moore as of a Ceylonese 

 female specimen* is certainly brighter and dissimilar to any examples that have passed 

 through my hands. The same author has also described, under the name of C. lithargjiria, a 

 closely allied form or species from Ceylon, which I have also received from that island, but at 

 present from no other locality. 



2. Catochrysops cnejus. (Tab. XXI., fig. 2 <? .) 



Hesperia Cnej-us, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Siippl. p. 430 (17U8). 



Pohjonimatus Cnejus, Goclt. Enc. Moth. ix. p. G57, n. 135 (lf^23). 



LycMia Cm-jus, Horsf. Cat. Lep. E.I. C. p. 83, n. 18 (1829); HeiT.-Scliall'. btctt. Eut. Zeit. 18U'J, t. 1, f. 18; 



Ex. Schmett. ii. f. 120 (1869). 

 Lycana Patala, Koll. Hiig. Kaschm. iv. 2, p. 419 (1848). 

 Lycmna Samoa, Herr.-ScLilfl'. Stett. Eut. Zeit. 18C9, p. 73, n. 30. 

 Lampides Cnejus, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 165, n. 13 (1869) ; Wood-Mas. & de Nic. J. A. 8,B. vol. l. p. 235, 



u. 36 (1881). 

 Cupido Cnejus, Druce, Proc. Zool. See. 1873, p. 848, n. 7. 



Catochrysops Cnejus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 92 (1881); Biitl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 605, n. 15. 

 Lampides patala, Butl. Trans. Liun. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 547, ii. 1 (1877). 



Male. Closely allied to G. straho, but more violaceous above, with the bases of the wings bluish, and 

 the posterior wings with two marginal black spots inwardly bordered with ochraceous situate on each side 

 of the lower median nervule. Wings beneath also closely resembling those of C. straho, but the ground 

 colour slightly darker, the markings narrower, and the colour between the greyish linear fascia distinctly 

 darker and pale brownish ; anterior wings with an almost continuous series from foiu-th subcostal nervule 

 to inner margin, and not broken at middle median nervule as in C. straho ; posterior wings also differing 

 from that species in having a third black spot margined with greyish in cell, a fourth smaller and less 

 distinct on abdominal margin and in having two large black spots containing a few scattered greenish 

 scales inwardly margined with ochraceous at anal angle, separated by the third median nervule. 



Female. I have not seen this sex. Mr. Moore describes (but not figures) it as follows : — "violet- 

 brown, with the lower basal and discal areas pale blue ; hind wings with a bluish white-bordered black row 

 of marginal spots, and an inner row of white lunules, the two anal spots red-bordered." t 



Exp. wings, <y , 28 to 30 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India ; Kurrachee (Swinhoe — Brit. Mus.) ; N.W. Himalaya (Hocking — coll. Moore). 

 — Xicobar Islands; Kamorta (W^ood-Mas. & de Nic). — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; 

 Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.). — Java (coll. Horsf.). — Borneo (Druce) ; Sandakan (Pryer — coll. Dist.). 



This does not appear to be an abundant species in the Malay Peninsula, as a single 

 specimen captured by myself in Province Wellesley is the only example I have seen from 

 that habitat, with the exception of tliat contained in the collection made by Capt. Pinwill in 

 Malacca. 



3. Catochrysops pandava. (Tab. XXL, fig. 17 <? .) 



Lyccma Pandava, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I. C. p. 84, n. 19 (1829). 

 Catochrysops Pandava, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 92, t. 37, f. 1, la, h (1881). 



Male. Wings above bright lavender-blue ; anterior wings with the outer margin fuscous ; posterior 

 wings with the costal margin fuscous, outer margin with a series of blackish spots placed between the 



* Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. t. 37, f. 2a. t Ibid. vol. i. p. 92. 



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