LYCANID. LAMPIDES. 163 
_ “QLarva dull pale green, tinged with red on dorsal ‘area; three reddish narrow dorsal 
stripes [one dorsal, two lateral]; spiracles minute, black; head small, brown, retracted 
beneath the second segment; length when full-fed ‘55 of an inch, Feeds in Ceylon on 
the fruit of the cardamom, Zie/éaria cardamomum, Pura smooth, pale dull yellowish- 
brown, marbled and spotted with dark brown, spots coalescing into three irregular dorsal 
stripes.’ (2. 2. Green in litt.) As the cardamom only grows, I believe, in South India 
and Ceylon, the larva of Z. e/4/s must have other food-plants throughout its wide range where 
the cardamom is not found. Mr. Green found only one larva, and says that he did not notice 
that it was furnished with the special organs affected by ants. 
Z. edpis is usually a much rarer species than Z. e/¢anus ; but both occur about equally. 
commonly in Sikkim, which may, perhaps, be exceptional in this respect. It has a rather 
more restricted range also than its congener, not occurring at allin the Bombay district ox 
in the Deccan. It presents a curious appearance on the wing, as, on account of its alternately 
completely opening and shutting its wings in flight, the contrast between the _ brilliant 
metallic-blue of the upper surface and the dark dull underside is very striking. Mr. Butler 
notes that “ Indian examples are slightly more azure in tint than those from Java, but do 
not otherwise differ.’ However, as above pointed out, Indian specimens do often differ 
from those described by Dr. Horsfield in the entire absence or presence of the second and 
third marginal strigze en the upperside of the hindwing in the males. 
Mr. Distant has figured (without tails), but not described, what is probally the wet-season 
form of this species in his “ Khopalocera Malayana,” pl, xxi, fig. 24, male, while his figure 25 
seems to represent a male of the dry-season form. 
735. Lampides coruscans, Moore. 
Z.. covuscans, Meore, Ann.and Mag. of Nat, Hist., fourth series, vol. xx, p. 341 (1877); idem, id., Lep. 
Cey., vol. i, p. 96, pl. xxxvi, figs. 9,90, ale ; ga, female (1881). 
Habitat: Ceylon, Chittagong Hill ‘Tracts, Burma, Nicobar Isles, Singapore, 
EXPANSE: ¢@, 9, 1°2 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘‘ MALE. Upprrsipr, doth wings brilliant glistening cobalt-blue. Fore- 
weg with avery narrow black speckle-bordered marginal band. Azxdwexg with a narrow 
black marginal line and speckled black spots. Czéza black, with whitish outer edge on the fore- 
wing, and inner white line on the hindwing. UNDERSIDE, o/h wings pale leaden-grey. 
Forewing with two narrow white transverse discal lines, a short upper intermediate streak, 
ashort outer line, a double marginal row of white dentate maiks with blackish intermediate 
space, and marginal line. MHiadzwizg with several interrupted narrow white transverse 
lines, a submarginal prominent double dentate line with black intermediate space, and 
marginal line ; a large subanal ochreous-bordered black spot. FEMALE. Upprrsipr, doth 
wings greyish-blue. Forewing with a black outer band, which is confined to the apex and 
outer margin. Mindwing witha blackish anterior border, and a submarginal dentate band 
enclosing a marginal row of black spots.” UNDERSIDE, Goth wings like the male. 
* Allied to LZ. pluto [ = /Jamides bochus, Cramer], but of a less glittering colour on the upper- 
side, and without the broad black band in the male.” (J/oore 1 c. in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist.) 
Mr. Moore’s figure of this species shows on the underside of the forewing a short white 
line across the middle of the celJ, a discal line from the subcostal to the submedian nervure, 
another line beyond approaching the costa somewhat more closely than the last, and a 
fourth shorter indistinct subapical line, all these lines parallel to one another. This arrang- 
ment does not agree with any species of the group known to me, T identify this species by 
its deeper coloration more approaching that of /anzides bochus, and by its smaller size, speci- 
mens agreeing with these characters occurring in Ceylon with Z e/pzs, Gocart. The charace 
teristic strie of Z. coruscans are arranged generally as in Z. e/pis, nos. 1 and 2 fromthe base 
arising at a distance from the costa, curving parallel to one another across the disc to the 
inner margin ; nos. 3 and 4 arising on, or close to, the costa and extending to the third median 
nervule, where there is a short fragment reaching the second median nervule, common to 
