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southward across India to the Malay Archipelago and Australia; in the last countries in the smaller and 

 darker form futli KolL, in which the red band of the hindwing above is quite or nearly absent. — Larva 

 almost without markings, green with black head, which is usually kept concealed; from the 3rd ring a 

 dark dorsal line, besides it short transverse stripes on the segments; on Heliotropium strigosum; attended 

 by the ant Phidole quadrispinosa. Pupa pale green, clotlied with thin but rather long hairs. The butter- 

 flies appear in the spring and again late in the summer and autumn; the}' occur in arid districts with 

 scanty vegetation; they fly close to ground and are for that reason not easy to catch. 



C. laius (78 a). Quite unlike the preceding species; above recalhng Zizera argia, but both wings near 

 the margin Mith a row of ocelli which, onl}' in the cJ, are often concealed under the blue-violet .sheen 

 of the upperside, while they are always present like a row of beads in the often nearly quite sooty black $. 

 Underside very characteristic; the ocelli of the submarginal row are here not simple round dots, but 

 are transverse-ovate or bean- or even heart-shaped. The butterflies appear in two very different forms. 

 The first-described form, of the dry season, has the anal area of the hindwing beneath darkened by a 

 dense brown cloud. The name laius Cr. must remain for this form, and the names cajus F., kandura Moore laius. 

 brahmina Fldr. and altera (the last erroneously employed for our figure of the underside, (J 78 a, 5th 

 figure) must sink as sj'jiomyus. The rainy-season form (named laius 79 a) has the ground-colour lighter; 

 the anal cloud on the hindwing is absent and the ocelli therefore are distinct. This form is varunana varunanu. 

 Moore. Both broods do not alternate regularly; the varunana flies all through the summer (rainy season) 

 in a number of broods until it becomes replaced in the winter (dry season) by a further series of broods 

 of the ,,generatio altera" (kandura-iorm or true laius). On Palearctic territory only in Kashmir; 

 I did not meet with it in Palearctic China, Leecii also does not mention it. But as I found it in South 

 China to be one of the commonest butterflies, it may possibly occur in East Asia on Palearctic soil 

 as a rarety. — Larva pale green, of the colour of the food-plant, with black head and dark dorsal line, 

 clothed with minute pale hairs which are placed on very small dust-like whitish granules ; the incissions between 

 the segments not deep, the reversible organ of the 12th ring short; the back of the larva without any 

 markings; on Aurantiaceae; the guard of ants consists in India of Camponotus rubripes compressus F. 

 Pupa green, spotted with brownish on both sides of the back. The butterflies are exceedingly common 

 throughout South Asia, with the exception of the Malay Archipelago, occurring more in destricts with 

 abundant vegetation. They rest always with the wings half open on grass-halms, dwarf bamboo or low 

 shrubs, and fly only a few yards when disturbed. 



C. phiala Gr.-Gmch. (77 k). Smaller than laius, but larger than trochylus. ^ above blue-violet, phiala. 

 $ dark. Underside pale grey, an elongate black discocellular spot on both wings; close beyond this spot 

 a chain of gray ocelli placed close together, and further ocelli at the distal margin and in the basal half 

 of the hindwing. — In the Pamir, in May, flies particularly on places covered with Alhagi camelorum. 

 It is doubthal whether the species is correctly placed in this genus. 



33. Genus: Everes Hbn. 



Similar to the following genus, but more delicate and slenderer, the al^domen longer, the forewing 

 broad, the hindwing tailed. The costal vein quite short, especially in the (^, for a short distance united 

 with the first subcostal branch. A well-defined genus, which is distributed over a large proportion of 

 the Old World. The larva onisciform as usual in Lycaenids, with a glandular organ on segment 10 for 

 attracting ants; on Papilionaceae. The butterflies occur in several broods, which differ from one another. 



E. argiades Pall. {— tiresias Rett., amyntas Schiff.) (78 a). (^ above violet-blue, $ blackish; beneath argiades. 

 both wings a pure clear light grey, almost white. A discocellular bar, a submarginal row of dots and 

 a row of ocelli before the outer third of both wings. Before the anal area of the hindwing there are, 

 on a red-yellow ground, two larger black spots, which bear sometimes metallic scales Throughout Europe 

 excepting the northern districts and the Iberian peninsula, also in Anterior Asia. The spring-form, poUj- 

 polysperchon Bergstr. (= tiresias Hbn., alcetas Hffgg.) (78 b) is considerably smaller. In ab. coretas 0. sperchon. 

 the anal red is absent from the hindwing beneath. The same is the case in decolorata Stgr., but this aecolorata. 

 form is much larger and has a glossy grey-blue upperside; it is the summer-form of the Danubian 

 countries, the corresponding spring-form lieing vernalis Grund. The ab. myrmidon Engram. appears to rnyrmidon. 

 belong to polysperchon; the anal red is also here reduced; characteristic is a blue- white submarginal band 

 on the hindwing. — Also decolor Stgr. is a form of polysperchon, its ^ being glossy blue-green instead of decolor. 

 violet-blue; from Marghellan. — In East Asia (East Siberia, .Japan, China, Corea) argiades appears in 

 more intensely coloured and spotted forms; the underside is almost pure silvery white, the rows of dots 



