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nervules between which and the narrow black margin is a slightly undulating white line, tail-like 

 appenaa^es* blackish, with their apices white; fringe of both wings fuscous, the tips greyish-white. 

 wLs beneath pale grevish-brown, with the following narrow greyish-white linear fasciae arranged m 

 pairs" and between which the colour is distinctly darker :-anterior wings with two disco-cellular at 

 end of c.ll followed outwardly l)y two crossing wing from near fourth subcostal nervule, which are 

 abruptly broken and deflected inwardly beneath both the middle and lower median nervules, two broad 

 subniai-inal and one narrow marginal; posterior wings with two disco-cellular at end of cell, two 

 crossin.^" win" broken and deflected at the lower subcostal and median nervules, two lunulated and 

 submai^Mnarand one straight marginal, the last coalescing with the outer submarginal and thus 

 enclosing a series of dark spots, a large black marginal spot with a few greenish scales between the 

 second and third median nervules and some smaller spots of the same colour at anal angle ; these spots 

 inwardly margined with reddish-ochraceous, which colour is also slightly continued between the first and 

 second median nervules, five black spots surrounded with greyish-white, situate two between the costal 

 nervure, one in cell, one between the bases of the third median nervule and submedian nervure, and one 

 (smaller) near base of abdominal margin. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. I do not at present know this sex. Mr. Moore has thus described t a female Ceylonese 

 specimen :— " violet-brown, with the lower basal and discal areas glossy lavender-blue ; hind wing with a 

 marginal row of white-bordered black spots, and bluish-white inner lunular line, the penultimate spot 

 red-bordered." 



Exp. wings, <? , 30 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India; N.E. Plimalaya (coll. Dist.).— Ceylon (Thwaites).— Malay Peninsula; 

 Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.).— Java (coll. Horsf.) ; Bantam (coll. Dist.). 



The larva is figured in Moore's ' Lep. Ceyl.,'+ from a drawing of the Bros, de Alwis, 

 and is thus described :§—" Larva onisciform ; greenisli or violet-brown above, with a dorsal 

 darker brown line and white spots, and a yellow lateral line." 



"Pupa violet-brown, thick, head truncate," 



"Feeds on Cijcadacem\\ (Thwaites)." 



Genus LAMPIDES. 



Lampides, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmott. p. 70 (1810) ; Moore, Lcp. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 94 (1881). 



This genus is closely allied to Catochn/snps, and only or principally differs in having the first 

 subcostal nervule of the anterior wings emitted beyond the middle of the cell; the third and fourth 

 subcostal nervules bifurcating about midway between the end of cell and apex of wing. In Lampides, also, 

 the first subcostal nervule is well removed from the costal nervure at its base, and is then suddenly and 

 somewhat broadly connected with that nervure by a transverse spur. 



This is a widely distributed genus, its area probably conterminable with that of Catochnjsops. 

 1. Lampides elpis. (Tab. XXL, fig. 25 <? and 26 2 . 



Poh/o,ni/ialHx F.lids, Godart, Euc. Meth. ix. p. G54, n. 125 (1823). 



Ijicrna Klpis, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I. C. p. 7G, u. 11, t. 1, f. 4 (1828); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. 

 E.LC. p. 24, n. 18 (1857); Snell. Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 152, u. 44 (1876). 



Lampides elpis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 833; Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 95, t. 38, f. 4, 4« (1881) ; Wood- 

 Mas. & de Nic. .]. A. S. B. vol. xlix. p. 230, n. 38 (1880) ; de Nic. ibid. vol. l. p. 52, u. 44 (1881). 



* Mutilated in the specimen figui-o.!. f Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 92. J T. 37, i. lb. § Vol. i. p. 92. 



II Mr. Grant .\lleu ciinsitlers the cycads, " whose inflorescence is the very simplest of all known flowering plants," as a 

 f,'0od example of the existing Gymnosperms, which " may be regarded as living survivors of a great class, once dominant, but 

 now nearly extinct ; and their flowers probably still preserve for us the original type of all blossoms, very shghtly altered by 

 time aiul circumstances" (• The Colours of Flowers,' p. 6). 



