1066 LYCANIDA, LAMPIDES; 
no. 4 instead of ending on the third, reaches the second median nervule, and no. 3 
on reaching the third median nervule, is suddenly deflected towards no. 2, into which 
it runs: so that the lower part of no. 2 looks like the lower stroke of a Y, of which 
its own upper part and No. 3 are the upper arms. This arrangement of nos. 2and 3 
somewhat resembles that in many specimens of Z. @/ianus; so that Z. pseudelpis seems 
intermediate between Z. e/pis and LZ. elianus, although on the upperside it cannot be distin- 
guished from some forms of thé former. 
737- Lampides subdita, Moore. 
ZL. subdita, Moore, Journ, Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 41 (1886)— 
HaBiIvrat : Mergui, December and March. 
Expanse: $f, 2, 1'0 to 1°4 inches. . 
DkSCRIPTION : “ MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings entirely pale glossy purpurascent lavender- 
blue as in L. pseude/pis, Butler, and without any marginal border.* UNDERSIDE, oth wings 
darker brown, the white lines all conspicuously narrower. Forewing with the discal -lines 
almost straight, continuous, the middle line entire from end to end, whereas in Z. pseudel pis, 
they are disposed irregularly, and the upper portions are in a curved series ; the area between 
the two marginal lunular lines is also blacker. indzwing with the basal and discal lines also, 
more linearly disposed, beyond which are five very prominent black dentate submarginal spots 
bordered by the white lunules, the marginal spots also are black, the subanal black spot is only 
half the size, and its red bordering area much larger and of an oval shape. FEMALE. UPPER- 
SIDE. doth wings paler greyish-blue. Forewing witha broad brown exterior band. Hindzwing: 
with brown anterior border, and a prominent row of black-centred white spots bordered with 
brown. UNDERSIDE, doth wings as in the male.” 
“Numerous specimens, all alike both on the upper and underside.” (A/oore, 1. c.) 
A very good and distinct species, which may at once be known on the underside of both 
wings by the two inner submarginal lines enclosing a series of fuscous spots, the innermost line 
highly lunular on the hindwing ; and the subanal orange patch relatively to the other species 
of the genus of immense size. These distinctive characters are correlated with a very unusual 
arrangement of the four transverse discal strize on the underside of the forewing which is 
quite unlike that of any other species of the group. Nos. 1 and 2 are short parallel lines arising 
at some distance from the costa and lying one on each side of the disco-cellular nervules, and 
having acommon posterior segment from the second median nervule to the inner margin ; 
this appears as the lower stroke of a Y, of which stria nos. 1 and 2 are the upper arms : 
sometimes no. 1 is continued uninterruptedly to the inner margin, and no. 2 is then short: 
no. 3 arising, not on, but near the costa, traverses the wing to the inner margin, being however 
dislocated sometimes more or less at the second median nervule: no. 4 is parallel to the 
upper part of no. 3, ending at the second median nervule. Altogether this is one of the most 
distinct species of the group. 
Another species of the Z. e/fzs group has been described as belowt from Malacca. It 
is based on a single female in the collection of Dr. O. Staudinger. The markings of the 
underside are precisely similar to those of Z. e/pzs, Godart ; but the upperside differs from all 
the specimens of that species I have seen in having the blue coloration very much restricted, 
confined to the basal half of the forewing, and to an even smaller area in the hindwing. 
* This in incorrect, it has quite as distinct an outer black border as has LZ pseude/fis. 
+ Lampides abdul, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 456, n. 6, pl. xliv, fig. 22, female (1886). HasiraT: Malacca. 
Expanse: Female, 1'2 inches. DESCRIPTION : ** FEMALE. UpPERSIDE, 60th wings pale cerulean-blue. Forewing 
with the costal and outer margins—the last very broadly—pale brownish, the outer margin with some indis- 
tinct greyish fascia. Hindwing shaded with pale brownish as on the forewing, but the outer margin broader, 
with some black spots with bluish margins at the anal angle. UNbersive, doth wings pale greyish-brown, 
Forewing with two greyish-white fascia crossing the wing at the end of the cell commencing at the subcostat 
nervure, followed by two shorter fascia commencing near the lower subcostal nervule and terminating 
on the third and second median nervules respectively, and two submarginal and a marginal fascia of the 
same colour. A/indwing crossed by greyish fasciz, a black marginal spot inwardly margined with ochraceous 
between the second and first median nervules, and a small patch of greenish scales preceded by ochraceous 
at the anal angle. Body and /egs more or less concolorous with the wings.”’ (Distant, |. c.) 
