25g iniol'AT.O CERA MA LA YA NA . 



with "i-evish. Posterior wings with two brownish lines at end of cell, followed by a dark fascia as 

 ou anterior win-s, but more or less dislocated at the nervules, especially between the first median nervule 

 and the abdominal margin, and duplex near anal angle; two pale brownish submargmal fascia,, a large 

 oehraceou= patch containing a black spot between the second and third median nervules, and a black spot 

 at anal ande-between these spots is a patch of metallic bluish scales-; extreme margin black, narrowly 

 bordered on each side with whitish ; fringe as on anterior wings. Body above more or less concolorous 

 with wings ; beneath greyish ; legs greyish, broadly annulated with black. Antenna, black, annulated 

 with grej-ish, the apex castaneous. 



Female. Wings above fuliginous-brown ; both wings with the dark discal fascia beneath more or less 

 distinctly visible above ; posterior wings with the anal area pale greyish, traversed by two submarginal 

 fuliginous fascia,, the outermost beyond the second median nervule consisting of three large spots, the 

 thirf at lobe of anal angle : tail-like appendages fuliginous, margined with greyish. Wings beneath as in 

 male, but somewhat paler in hue. 



Exp. wings, ^ , 28 to 36 millim ; 5 , 30 to 38 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India; N.E. Bengal, Sikkim, Khaisa Hills, Cherra Punji (Moore).— Andaman 

 Islands (Wood-Mas. & de Nic.).— Burma (Moore).— Malay Peninsula; Penang, Province Wellesley (coll. 

 Dist.) ; Perak (Townsend— coll. Godm. & Salv.) ; Sungei Ujong (Durnford— coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill— 

 Brit. Mus. ; Biggs— coll. Dist.); Singapore (Wallace— coll. Godm. & Salv.; Kerr— coll. Dist.).— Nias 

 Island (Kheil).— Java (Horsf.).— Borneo (Druce).— Celebes (Snellen) ; Macassar (coll. Hewits.). 



H. erijius is probal)ly distributed throughout the Malay Archipelago, and is in all its 

 recorded habitats a moderately abundant species. I have always received the sexes in unequal 

 proportion, male specimens predominating, and Mr. de Niceville, when collecting in Sikkim, in 

 October, 1880, found the " males very common all through the Terai and up to Chunabatti," 

 but "only one female taken."* It is a species little subject to variation, as is evident from 

 the series from different habitats in my own collection, and, as found in the Andamans, 

 Messrs. Wood-Mason and de Niceville remark, "Absolutely indistinguishable from fresh 

 Sikkim specimens." t 



2. Hypolycaena etolus. (Tab. XX., fig. 23 ^ .) 



l',ij,iUu Kt„lus, Fabricius, Maut. Ins. ii. p. 66, n. 620 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 2C4, u. 20 (1793). 



AmhhjpmUa PUnhis, Horsf. Cat. Lap. E.I. C. p. 115, u. 46 ; Thecla E. I.e. t. 1, f. 9 (1829). 



Mijnna Htnlus, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lap. Mus. E.I. C. vol. i. p. 49, u. 82 (1857); Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lap. 



p. 183, u. 3 (1869). 

 Ihil.oli/catia Klolm, Hewits. 111. Diurn. Lap. t. 22, f. 19, 20 (18G5); Drnce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 351, 



n. 2; P.utl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 549, u. 2 (1877) ; de Nic. .J. A. S. Bang. vol. l. 



pt. 11, p. 59, n. 105 (1881) ; Klicil, Ehop. dcr lusel. Nias, p. 31, u. 98 (1884). 

 I[i//iuli)rini(i Aniasa, Hawits. 111. Diuru. Lap. p. 51, n. 8 (1865). 



Male. Wings above very dark indigo-blue or blackish, base of anterior wings and whole area of posterior 

 wings, excluding apex and two submarginal spots (one between second and third median nervules and one 

 at anal angle) pale bluish, with a greyish tinge ; fringe of posterior wings and tail-like appendages greyish, 

 the last with a faint central bluish line. Wings beneath very pale bluish, with a greyish tinge ; anterior 

 wings with the apical half more or less ocbraceous, and with the following darker oehraceous markings : — 

 two short contiguous lines at end of cell, followed by two transverse fasciffi, the innermost of which is most 

 distinct; posterior wings with the apex and two outer waved and dislocated narrow fasciffi oehraceous, 



* J. A. S. Ben;,', vol. L. jit. ii. p. 52 (1881). j Ibid. vol. xlix. p. 232 (1880). 



