228 imOPALOCEUA MALAYAN A. 



2. Lampides aelianus. (Tab. XXL, fig. 18 S , ami XXIL, fig. 19 ■? , vur.) 



Hesperia /Elianus, Fabricius, Eut. Syst. iii. 1, p. 280, n. 79 (1793). 



Pohjommatus miunux, GoiU. Enc. Metb. ix. p. 654, n. 123 (1823). 



I.;ii;ma .JSIionus, Horsf. Cat. Lep. E.I. C. p. 73, n. 9 (1828). 



Lumpides .Elianus, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. ICG, n. 10 (18G9); Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 883; Lep. 



Ceyl. vol. i. p. 94, t. 38, f. 3, 3a/; (1881); Wood-Mas. & ile Nic. J. A. S.B. vol. xlis. p. 229, n. 37 



(1880); ibid. vol. l. p. 234, u. 30 (1881). 

 Pitpilio ale.vis, Stoll (nee Scop.) Suppl. Cram. t. 38, f. 3, 3 C (1790). 

 Li/caiia alexis, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. vol. i. p. 25, n. 20 (1857). 



Male. Closelj' allied to L. dpis, but differing principally in the following particulars : — the azure-blue 

 coloration above is paler in hue, and the submarginal fascis and spots to the posterior wings are much 

 fainter and sometimes almost obsolete ; the wings beneath are greyish-brown (varying in depth of hue), 

 and the greyish-white linear fasciae are arranged generally as in C. elpis, but differing in the following 

 respects : — on anterior wings the pair crossing disk near end of cell are more or less regularly continued 

 above cell to near costa, and the outer one terminates near base of iirst median nervule, the next pair 

 commencing near costa are more continuous, the inner one continued to inner margin, the outer terminating 

 at second median nervule. Posterior wings similarly marked as those of C. elpis. 



Female. Above resembling the corresponding sex of C. elpis, but paler in hue, the apex of the 

 anterior wings rather more broadly fuscous, but with the costal margin not, or very obsoletely iufuscated. 

 Markings beneath as in male. 



E.xp. wings, <? and S , 30 to 36 millim. 



H.\B. — Continental India; N.W. Himalaya (Hocking — coll. Moore); Pulni (Piobin. — coll. Dist.). — 

 Ceylon (Thwaites— coll. Dist.).— Andaman Islands (Wood-Mas. & de Nic). — Nicobar Islands ; Kamorta, 

 Trinkut, Nankowri (Wood-Mas. & de Nic.).— Burma ; Moulmein (Moore). — Tenasserim ; Meetau (Limborg— 

 coll. Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Sungei Ujong; Malacca (Biggs — coll. Dist.); Singapore (Kerr — coll, 

 Dist.).— Java (coll. Horsf.) ; Bantam (Forbes- coll. Dist.).— Borneo ; Sandakan (Pryer — coll. Dist.). — Timor 

 Laut (Forbes — Brit. Mus.). 



Var. u. agnata. 



Ciipido aynata, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 106, t. 16, f. 2-4 (1874). 

 Lampides a;imta, Butl. Trans. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 647, n. 8 (1877). 



This proposed species, judging from Mr. Druce's figures, appears to be a variety of L. lelianus, 

 diftering from the typical form on the underside of the anterior wings, by the arrangement of the greyish 

 linear fasciae, of which the innermost of the first and second pau-s appear to be— beneath the cellular 

 area — more irregularly deflected and waved. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.).— Siam; Nahconchaisee (Druce). 



Var. h. 



Resembling typical form of the species, but differing principally in the darker— more plumbeous- 

 ground colour of the wings beneath and in the male above by the narrower (though very variable in this 

 respect) fuscous margin to the anterior wings. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Biggs— coll. Dist.).- Java; Bantam (coll. Dist.).— Borneo; 

 Sandakan (Pryer— coll. Dist.). 



A strong argument— if one were needed— for the varietal character of this species may 

 be found in a cursory glance at the recorded habitats of the forms a and h referred to above, 



