RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 227 



Male. Wings above bright shining aznre-bhie, through which the ]ialo markings beneath are faintly 

 visible ; anterior wings with the costal margin narrowly and the outer margin more broadly fuscous ; 

 fringe fuscous, the extreme tips paler ; posterior wings with the costal area pale fuscous ; posterior margin 

 with a very pale fuscous and slightly waved submarginal linear fascia and a marginal row of fuscous spots 

 placed between the nervules, and outwardly followed by a whitish line, the spot at anal angle linear and 

 transverse, extreme outer margin fuscous, and fringe as on anterior wings. Wings lieneath greyisii-brown, 

 crossed by the following series of whitish linear fascia; arranged in i)airs ; anterior wings with two 

 commencing near upper end of cell and terminating on submedian nervure, outwardly followed l)y two 

 commencing a little beneath costa and terminating the inner one on middle median nervule and the outer 

 one on upper median nervule, and two submarginal and one marginal ; posterior wings with the disk 

 crossed by three pairs more or less broken, and two waved submarginal and one marginal, these last 

 broken between second and third median nervules by a large black marginal spot inwardly bordered with 

 ochraceous, a linear spot at anal angle as above also slightly inwardly margined with ochraceous ; extreme 

 outer margin of wings fuscous ; body above more or less concolorous with wings, lateral margins of 

 abdomen greyish-brown, with the segmental incisures greyish -white ; body beneath greyish-white; legs 

 fuscous, more or less annulated with greyish, femora beneath wholly greyish. 



Female. Wings above paler than in the male, with the costal and outer margin (especially at apex) 

 of anterior wings broadly fuscous ; the posterior wings with the outer marginal fascioe and spots larger and 

 more distinct. Wings beneath as in male, but with the ochraceous bordering of the anal and subanal spots 

 larger and more diffused. 



Exp. wings, <? 30 to 34 milhm. ; 2 29 to 35 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India; Sikkim (de Niceville).— Ceylon (Thwaites— coll. Dist.).— Andaman Islands 

 (Wood-Mas. & de Nic). — Tenasserim ; Ahsoun, Meetan (Limborg — coll. Moore).— Malay Peninsula; Perak 

 (Townsend— coll. Godm. & Salv.) ; Malacca (Biggs— coll. Dist.).— Java (coll. Horsf.) ; Batavia (Snellen).— 

 Borneo; Sandakan (Pryer — coll. Dist.). 



Var. pseudelpis. (Tab. XX., fig. 27 <? , and 28 2 .) 



Lamjndespseudeljiis, Butler, Trans. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 547, n. 9, t. G8, f. 7, 8 (1878) ; Moore, 

 Lap. Ceyl. i. p. 95 (1881). 



I cannot look upon this proposed species as exhibiting anything but a varietal charactei- or 

 form of L. elpis. The figures I here give are copied from those of Mr. Butler, which I think 

 are in some respects inexact, as the female should exhibit a fuscous costal margin, whilst the 

 ground colour of the wings is too green in hue. I have formed this opinion from specimens 

 which I have received since the figures were copied, and I add Mr. Butler's description, which 

 lends reasonableness to the view : — 



" Nearly allied to L. eljns, which it resembles above ; below, however, with the white transverse 

 bands narrower, irregular and broken up, the ground colour more distinctly bluish opaline, and the large 

 submarginal black spot of secondaries less broadly encircled by ochreous." 



Exp. wings, " 1 inch 6 lines." 



Hab.— Ceylon (Moore).— Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus. ; Biggs— coll. Dist.).— Java ; 

 Bantam (Forbes — coll. Dist.). 



Mr. de Niceville has observed this species in Sikkim, and found that "on the wing it 

 presents a very curious appearance on account of its alternately opening and shutting its wings, 

 the contrast between the brilliant metallic-blue of the upper surface and the dark dull under- 

 side being very great." * 



* Jouru. Asiat. Soc. Bengl. vol. l. p. 52. 



