156 LYCENIDA. JAMIDES. 
DESCRIPTION: “MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings deep shining violet-purple, the outer 
margins narrowly black. UNDERSIDE, doth wings pale brown. Forewing tinged with ochreous 
on the inner margin extending into the disc, bearing the following blackish markings out- 
wardly defined with white:—a quadrate spot across the middle of the cell with a small 
spot above it on the costa, a similar but larger one closing the cell, a discal curved chain of 
six spots (which is shifted inwards at the penultimate spot from the inner margin), and a 
double stbmarginal series of lunules. Ainvdwing marked with some indistinct spots at the 
base, then four subbasal ones extending across the wing, another closing the cell, and a much 
curved and irregular discal series ; submarginal lunules as in the forewing, but bearing three 
black spots towards the anal angle, the outermost one largest and prominent, the others small ; 
the usual anteciliary black line. Ci/a pale brown, on the hindwing marked with dark 
brown at the ends of the nervules, No tail.” 
«* Nearest to the tailless VW. dana, de Nicéville, which also occurs at Ootacamund, but 
differing on the upperside in being of a different colour (deep violet-purple instead of light 
bluish-purple), and on the underside in having the markings throughout darker and more 
conspicuous, and the ground-colour also darker. The forewing is also narrower and more 
produced at the apex.” (de Nicéville, 1. c.) ‘* Male fairly common from 2,000 to 4,000 feet 
[in the Nilgiris], female unknown. The wet-season form has dusky markings on the underside 
similar to those of WV. macrophthalma, Felder, but more variable in extent.” (Hampson, |. c.) 
This species has now been known some three or four years, but it has only been found 
im the Nilgiris and the Dehra Dun, and its female is still unknown. It isa very distinct and 
well-marked species. Mr. G, F. Hampson has taken it in considerable numbers on the 
southern slopes of the Nilgiris, and Mr. P. W. Mackinnon has sent me a single male taken in 
the Dehra Dun, Western Himalayas, on 29th August, 1888, and he informs me that he has 
only one other specimen. : 
The second subgroup has the first subcostal nervule of the forewing connected to the costal 
nervure by a short spur, a character which occurs in two Indian genera only, /amzdes, Hiibner, 
and Lampides, Hiibner. Both these genera have a short filiform tail from the apex of the 
first median nervule of the hindwing. Ican find no structural character whatever by which 
to separate them, but they are abundantly distinct in facies, the males of Jamides rivalling the 
magnificent South-American J/orfhos in the brilliance of the steel blue or purple coloration of 
the upperside, the forewing with a broad outer black border ; the females are of quite a dull blue 
on the upperside ;_ while in Zawfdes the differences between the sexes are not nearly so great, 
the females have a rather broader black border on the upperside than the males ; the coloration 
of the upperside in one group of this genus is pale milky bluish-white, in the other azure- 
blue with a slight metallic lustre. Both genera are furnished with narrow more or less con- 
tinuous white bands on the underside, the hindwing with the usual black spot on the margin 
in the first median interspace crowned with orange ; the basal area of the forewing unmarked. 
The two genera occur almost throughout the Indo-Malayan region, and /Jamiédes has been 
recorded from Australia, The males have no secondary sexual characters. 
Genus 119.-_JAMIDES, Hiibner. (PLate XXVII). 
Yamides, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 71 (1816); id., Moore, Lep. Cey,, vol. iy p. 86 (1881); id., 
Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 222 (1884). 
‘“« FOREWING, elongate, triangular ; costa slightly arched at the base, afex very [slightly] 
acute, exterior margin slightly oblique and convex, posterior margin long ; costal mervure bent 
upwards near its end to the costa, extending to half length of the margin ; first subcostal nervule 
short, emitted at nearly one-half before the end of the cell and slightly touching the costal ner- 
vure at its angle ; second subcostal at one-third before the end of the cell ; ¢4z7d subcostal close 
to the end ; fourth subcostal at nearly one-half from the third and terminating at the apex ; fi/th 
subcostal from the end of the cell ; d¢sco-cellular nervules slightly waved, radial [Jower discoida} 
nervule from their middle ; discocda/ celd broad, long, extending to more than half the wing; second 
median nervule emitted at one-sixth before the end of the cell, /i7sf median at nearly one-half 
