LYCAINIDAS. EVERES. 139 
Nagpur, Mhow, the Nilgiris, Travancore, Ceylon, and on the Islands of Nankowri and 
Katschall of the Nicobars. I am surprised to find that it does not occur on the Western Ghats, 
In North America 2. avg¢ades appears to be as variable a species as elsewhere and in the 
same way. In Mr. Scudder’s most full description of it at all stages he notes the difference 
in the sizes of the specimens, males varying from 9°5 to 15°25, and females from I0°0 to 
¥5'0 millimetres. He also refers to the variations that obtain in the coloration and markings, 
the female as well being dimorphic. He considers the American insect to be a distinct species 
from the European and Asiatic one, and applies to it the name Z. comyntas, Godart. He 
says that they are considered to be identical by ‘* some careless authors ” (p. 925), but he does 
not point out in what direction the supposed differences between the old and new world forms 
may be looked for. I have quite failed to discover them in the imago. 
As writers on Indian Lepidoptera have hitherto kept Z. farrhasius and EZ. dipora dis- 
tinct, Iappend descriptions of them as foot-notes. I also give a description of the species as 
it appears in Europe by Dr. Lang.* The transformations are described on page 136 antea. 
The figure shows both sides of a male example from Pangi in the Western Himalayas 
deposited in my collection. 
717. Everes kala, n. sp. (PLATE XXVI, Fic, 18r). 
HasitTaT: Khasi Hills. 
EXPANSE: I'0 inch. 
DESCRIPTION: UPPERSIDE, doch wings fuliginous-black, Forewixg witha rather promi- 
nent oval disco-cellular deep black spot. Hindwing with a submarginal series of oval indis- 
tinct black spots, each spot outwardly defined by a fine short white line ; ¢az/ very short, fine, 
black tipped with white. Cz/ia whitish marked with black. UNDERSIDE, oth wings 
plumbeous-grey, a fine anteciliary black line, then a series of small oval dull fuscous spots circled 
by a white line; then a series of larger rather quadrate dull fuscous spots inwardly defined by a 
fine white line. Forvewéng with a very prominent discal series of six rounded deep black spots, 
* Everes parrhasius, Fabricius. Hasitat : Java (Horsfeeld, Moore and Butler) ; Bengal, Ceylon (AZeore) ; 
Mhow (Swixhoe); Nicobar Isles (Wood-Mason and de Nicéuille); Malacca, Singapore (Distant) ; Celebes 
(Snellen) ; Australia (Semper). EXPANSE : Male, v'00 ; female, 1°25 inches. DESCRIPTION : “ Mace, UpPERsIbDE, 
both wings deep violet-blue, with a narrow brown outer marginal band. Hixdwing, the band with black spots slightly 
bordered with white. Unpersipe, éo¢2 wings greyish-white. Forewing with a white-bordered dusky-brown 
disco-cellular lunule, an outer discal lunular line, and two marginal lunular lines. Hindwing with three black 
subbasal and an apical spot, a white-bordered dusky-brown disco-cellular lunule, a discal row of lunules, and a 
marginal lunular line, the latter enclosing two large subanal black spots bordered with ochreous, FEMALE. 
UpPERSIDE, Jot wings violet-brown, the lower basal and discal areas more or less greyish-blue. Hindwing 
with a marginal row of white-bordered black spots, the two spots between the median nervules bordered with 
a red inner lunule.” UNDpeERSIDE, doth wixgs asin the male. (Moore, |. c. in Lep. Cey.) 
Occurs in Ceylon at ‘Colombo, In open and cultivated land"? (Hxéchison). ‘‘ Galle and Kandy. Very 
common ” (Wade). 
Everes dipora, Moore. Lycena difora, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 506, n. 108, pl. xxxi, 
fig. 8, male; Everes dipfora, Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p- 132, n. 158 (1886), HasitaT : Kasauli, 
N.-W. Himalayas; Kashmir (Moore) ; Kumaon (Doherty). EXpaNsE: Male, “92 ofan inch, DESCRIPTION : 
Mate. “ UprersipE, both wings dull violet-blze, exterior margins broadly brown. Cz/#a grey, with a narrow 
medial brown line. Forewing witha disco-cellular spot. Hixdwing with a tail. UNpeERSIDR, both wings 
greyish cream-colour, exterior margins defined by a brown line. Forewivg with a narrow disco-cellular 
streak, and a transverse discal straight series of white-encircled black spots, a submarginal row of pale browa 
spots. Aixdwing with three basal and a thrice-interrupted discal series of eight white-encircled black spots, a 
medially disposed marginal orange-red band, bordered inwardly with brown lunules, outwardly with (two clear, 
the rest ill-defined) black spots, Cita as above.” (Moore, |. c.) :- 
“ \ slight delicate species, from Kasauli; not very common ; generally found near water.” (Note dy Coloned 
A.M. Lang, R. E.) , ; i , 
“« Everywhere [in Kumaon] from 1,000 to 10,000 feet. The red area on the hindwing below is variable. The 
female is dark brown above. The male is indistinguishable from £. farrhasius, Fabricius.” (Doherty, |. c.) 
Colonel Lang has taken it near Naini Tal from 3,500 to 5,500 feet, June and July, and in the valleys above 
Kanikhet at about 5,500 feet in April. 
Lycena argiades, Pallas. Hapirat: Central and Southern Europe (except Britain and Spain), North-West. 
ern Asia, the South of Siberia, and the Amur. (Laag). ExPANSE : ‘80 to 1°12 inches. DEscRIPpTION: ‘“* Mate, 
UppersiDE, 40th wings violet-blue, with a narrow brown hind-marginal border. Forewing without spots. 
Hindwing with a short tail, two or three small brown spots along the. hind margin near the anal angle. 
UnpeErsIDkB, both wings greyish-white, tinged with blue at the base, a faint hind-marginal orange band. 
Forewing has a narrow linear discoidal spot, and a row of seven black spots parallel to the hind margin, 
Hindwing has a row of black spots enclosed by the orange band, and an irregular row running across the 
medial area of the wings, besides two placed near the base. FEMALE. UPppERSIDE, b0th wings brown, 
slightly tinged with violet-blue atthe base. Hixdwing, besides having two or three black spots near the 
anal angle, shows faint traces of an orange band. UNDERSIDE, doth wings as in the male. Cz/ia in both sexes 
white.” (Or, H.C, Lang, Butt, of Eur., p. rot, n. 4, pl. xxii, fig. 5, wale and female (1884). 
