136 LYCAINID/:. EVERES. 
the year round. Flight slow; flits about low shrubs and settles on the ground” (Atchison) ; 
“Kandy and Galle, common” ( Wade), “Common on the Nilgiris, especially on the lower 
slopes” (G. 7. Hampson). Mr. Butler records this species from Hydrabad, Sind, collected 
by Colonel Swinhoe. It is found in Orissa, Ganjam, Bangalore, the Pulni Hills, Calicut, the 
Wynaad, Rutnagherry, Canara, and Travancore, and doubtless throughout South India in suit- 
able localities in addition to Assam and Upper Burma. 
T. nyseus is a fairly constant species ; in some specimens the red patch on the upperside 
of the hindwing is broader than in others, and on the underside the black markings vary some- 
what in size, and in the hindwing several of the black spots are often wanting in both sexes. Its 
isolated appearance in Upper Burma and Assam (Shillong, Manipur and the Naga Hills) 
appears to me to be not a little remarkable. It was first discovered in the Nilgiri hills. 
The figure shews both sides of a femaie specimen in my collection captured at Shillong. 
Genus 117.-EVERES, Hiibner. ( PLare XXVI). 
Everes, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 69 (1816) ; id., Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 85 (1881) ; id., Distant, 
Rhop. Malay., p. 221 (1884) ; id , Scudder, Butt. East, United States and Canada, p. 905 (1889) 
‘* FOREWING, elongate, triangular ; costa slightly arched at the base, apex rounded, exterior 
murzin lightly oblique and convex, fosterior margin long ; costal nervure short, bent slightly 
upwards before reaching the costa, and not extending to half length of the margin ; frs¢ 
subcostal nervule ascending and anastomosed to the costal nervure near its end ; second sub- 
costal at one-third before the end of the cell ; 42a subcostal at one-sixth before its end ; 
fourth subcostal from one-half length of the third and terminating at the apex ; fifth subcostal 
[zpper discotdal] from the end of the discoidal cell ; désco-cel/ular nervules slightly oblique ; radial 
[lower discoidal] nervule from their middle; second median nervule emitted at one-sixth 
before the end of the cell, /rs¢ median at one-half before its end ; submedian nervure slightly 
recurved. HINDWING, oval, with a slender /ai/ from the end of the first median nervule ; 
costal nervure extending to near the apex, arched at the base ; «per disco-cellular nervule 
oblique, ower disco-cellular erect, discoidal nervule from their middle ; dscoidal cell short ; 
second median nervule emitted before the end of the cell, firs¢ median at one-half before 
its end; sadmedian and internal nervures straight. BopDy small, short; fa/fi slender, 
porrect, second joint pointed at its end and clothed with longish scales at its base beneath, 
third joint long, slender ; J/egs slender; avztenne with a slender grooved club. Type, 
E. amyntas, Fabricius,” =argiades, Pallas. (Moore, 1, c.) 
In Zveres the costal nervure, especially in the male, is very short, and anastomoses with 
the first subcostal nervule for some little distance ; the second subcostal is emitted rather 
nearer to the base of the first than to that of the upper discoidal nervule ; the third subcostal 
originates nearer to the base of the upper discoidal than to the apex of the wing ; there is no 
upper disco-cellular nervule, the middle disco-cellular is straight, outwardly oblique, the 
lower disco-cellular also straight, but inwardly oblique, 
“ LarvA (Z£. argiades, var. coretas, Ochsenheimer) pale green, with a darker dorsal stripe, 
dark lateral streaks, and light brown and white spots. Feeds on trefoil and other Leguminose. 
(Zang, Butt. of Eur., p. 102 (1884). 
‘* LARVA elliptical in form, flatter and more elongated than in Cyanir7s, Dalman, with 
a flatter terminal segment, of a greenish colour, with a dark dorsal stripe and many oblique 
lateral lines. They feed on a variety of Zeguminose ; in Europe they have been found on 
Lotus, Anthyllis, Medicago, Trifolium, Pisum, and Onobrychis, and even on Rhamnus ; in 
North America it feeds on Lespedeza, Phaseolus, Desmodium, Galactia, Trifolium, and 
Astragalus. PUPA longer and slenderer than in Cyaniris, being nearly four times longer than 
broad, the abdomen but slightly more elevated than the thorax, and the whole body covered 
with long distant hairs by which they may readily be distinguished ; in colour they resemble 
the caterpillars, or are darker and spotted with black.” (Scudder, 1. c.) 
This genus, as far as I know, contains but five distinct species, one of which, £. exiguzes, 
Distant, was described from a single female example taken at Singapore ; another, 2. fala, 
