RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 231 



Lampides Batica, Walk. Ent. vol. v. p. 52, n. 42 (1870); Ncwm. Brit. Butt. p. 117, f. 89 (1874). 



Cupido kfticics, Auriv. Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forb. 1879, no. 7, p. 44 ; Suell. Tijd. Eiit. xx. p. 2 (1877) ; ibid. xxi. 



p. 23, n. 90 (1878). 

 Papilio Coluteic, Fuessly, Scbweiz. Ins. p. 31, u. 594, f. 2, 2 (1775). 

 Papilid Phiirwn, Fourer, Ent. Paris, ii. p. 242, n. 25 (1785). 



Male. Wiugs above pale violaceous ; auterior wings with the costal margin narrowly and the outer 

 margin more broadly pale fuscous ; posterior wings with the costal and posterior margins pale fuscous, 

 a large black marginal spot between second and third median nervules, and two contiguous smaller black 

 spots at anal angle. Wings beneath pale brownish-ochraceous, with the following linear brownish fasciie 

 margined with greyish : — anterior wings with two crossing centre and two near end of cell, two (considerably 

 fractured), crossing wing between end of cell and outer margin, commencing near the fourth subcostal 

 nervule and terminating at submedian nervure, two submarginal {the innermost broadest), and the outer 

 margin narrowly pale fuscous ; posterior wiugs crossed from base to beyond middle with about eight linear 

 fasciae as on anterior wiugs (more or less fused and broken), followed by a distinct aud somewhat broad 

 greyish fascia, and with two submarginal linear brownish fascije ; two large marginal spots containing 

 a few scattered greenish scales and inwardly margined with pale reddish ochraceous, separated by the 

 lower median nervule ; outer margin narrowly fuscous ; fringe of both wings pale brownish, the tips 

 greyish-white. Body above more or less concolorous with wings, beneath with legs greyish-white ; legs 

 more or less streaked with brownish. 



Female. Wings above pale brownish ; anterior wings with a discal bluish patch ; posterior wings 

 with two outer greyish submarginal fasciae, the innermost broadest ; black anal angular spots as in male, 

 distinctly margined with greyish ; wings beneath as in male. 



Exp. wings, S and 2 , 30 to 38 millim. 



Hab. — Europe, generally south of the Alps.* — Madeira (Brit. Mus.). — Teneriffe (Brit. Mus.). — 

 St. Helena (Trimen). — Egypt (Lord— Walk.). — Congo (Mabille). — Southern Africa (Trimen).— Damara Land 

 (Aurivillius). — Delagoa Bay (Monteiro — coll. Dist.). — Madagascar (,Trimen). — Mauritius (Trimen). — Ai-abia 

 (Lord — W^alk.). — Candahar (Roberts — Brit. Mus.). — Continental India; Kurraehee (Swinhoe — Brit. Mus.); 

 Pulni (Eobinson — coll. Dist.); Sikkim (de Niceville). — Cej'lon (Thwaites — coll. Dist.). — Malay Peninsula; 

 Penang (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.) ; Sungei Ujong (Biggs — coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Biggs — coll. Dist.). — Sumatra 

 (Snellen). — Java (coll. Horsf.) ; Batavia (Snellen) ; Bantam (coll. Dist.). — Celebes (Snellen). — Ceram (.Brit. 

 Mus.). — Ai-u (Brit. Mus.).- — Duke York Island (Brown — coll. Godm. & Salv.) — Australia; Melbourne 

 (Butler). — Shanghai (Elwes); Hong Kong (Brit. Mus.). — Japan (Elwes). 



In Europe the food-plant of the larva of this widely distributed species is the " bladder 

 senna" {Colutea arborescens), a hardy plant reported to even grow on the ascent to the crater of 

 Vesuvius. In Mauritius Mr. Trimen found the butterfly "almost confined to gardens, where 

 it kept about the cultivated pea." t 



According to Mr. Elwes this insect, although found in Japan and at Shanghai, is not 

 known in Amurland, \ and it seems little affected by local conditions as modifying agencies in 

 colour markings, though M. Mabille writes of the species as found in the Congo district of West 

 Africa: — "II est un peu plus sombre que les individus d'Europe, en mtime temps plus bleu, 

 et ses ailes sont bien plus minces." § 



'-■ This species has occasionally been captured in England, and is not altogether confined to Southern Europe. 



t Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. v. p. 337 (18(J6). This butteifly seems to follow the introduction of agriculture. Dr. Hors- 

 field states that his Javanese specimens were "collected chiefly in the cultivated districts." It is also dependent on the 

 seasonal method of cultivation, for as Mr. Newman observed in England, " it only occurs in our pea-fields now and then, but 

 Its existence must be very precarious, because the egg would, in all probability, perish with the pea-haulm, which is rarely 

 kept through the spiiiig and simimer" (Brit. Butt. p. 118). 



I Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 887. § Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1877, p. 215. 



