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738. Lampides elianus, Fabricius. 
Hesperia elianus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. 1, p. 280, n. 79 (1793) 3 Polyommatus @lianus, Godart, 
Enc, Méth,, vol. ix, p. 654, n. 123 (1823) ; Lycana elianus, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C., p. 73, n. 9, pl. iv, 
figs. 1, /arva ; 1a, pupa (1828) ; Lampides elianus, Butler, Cat, Fab. Lep. B. M., p. 166, n. 16 (1869) ; 
id., Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. 1, p. 94, pl. xxxviii, figs. 3, male; 3a, female ; 36, larve and pup@ (1881); id., 
Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 228, n. 2, pl. xxi, fig. 18, ade ; pl. xxii, fig. 19, male variety (1884) ; Papilio alexis,* 
Stoll (zec Scopoli), Supplement Cramer's Pap, Ex., vol, v, pl. xxxviii, figs. 3, 3C, made (1790) ; Lycena alexis, 
Horsfield and Moore, Cat, Lep. Mus. E. I. C., vol. i, p. 25, n. 20, pl. i, figs. 1, darva; 1a, pupa (1857) ; idem, id., 
Proc. Zool, Soc. Lond., 1865, p, 773 3 Lampides alexis, id., |. c., 1878, p. 833 3 id., Swinhoe, |, c., 1885, p. 131, 
n. 49; Lamfpides zethus, Hiibner, Verz. bek, Schmett., p. 70, n. 684 (1816) ; Cupido agnata, Druce, Proc, Zool. 
Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 106, n. 4, pl. xvi, figs. 2, 4, male ; 3, female ; Lampides agnata, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc, 
Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 547, n. 8 (1877) ; Lampides elianus, var. a, agnata, Distant, Rhop, 
Malay., p. 228 (1884) ; Lampides conferenda, Butler, Ann, and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xviii, p. 
185, n. 25 (1886) ; Pledeius malaccanus, Rober, Iris, vol, i, p. 57, pl. iv, fig. 3, male (1886). f 
Hapirat: Throughout India at all elevations not exceeding about 5,000 feet except in 
the desert regions of Sind, and also throughout Ceylon, in the Andaman Isles, Assam, Burma, 
Siam, Malay Peninsula, Java, Bantam, Borneo, Timor Laut, Philippines, 
EXPANSE: ¢@, 9, 1°3 to 1°6 inches. 
Dry-season form. 
DESCRIPTION : ** MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings milk-white. Forewing with a narrow 
brown posterior border. Wzdwing surrounded by a delicate black striga, interior to which is 
an obscure interrupted brown band, in which the large ocellate spot at the anal angle distinctly 
shows itself. UNDERSIDE, doth wings grayish-brown, varying in intensity of tint [often of a 
ferruginous or chestnut-brown tint]. In both wings the ground-colour assumes, in some 
individuals, between the transverse strige a deeper tint, so that these appear to be marked 
with broad, transverse, brown bands : but this is by no means uniform : some of our specimens 
have these brown bands very distinct, in others [probably specimens of the wet-season broods] 
equally well-preserved, the ground-colour is uniform, and the white transverse strigze preserve the 
character above described. Forewing with seven, hindwing with nine, transverse white strigz, 
of which three are marginal, extending uniformly through both wings. /orew2ng, the remaining 
Strigze are discoidal [discal], regularly parallel, with a slight inclination to the posterior apical 
[anal] angle, arranged in two pairs, the first, on the disc, short and separated from the costa by 
three dots, disposed as the points of a triangle ; the second extending nearly half across the wing, 
each with a dot at its contact with the costa slightly deviating from the regular course. On 
reaching the middle of the wing these strigze are all abruptly terminated at one of the longitudinal 
nerves, and each pair is continued by a single streak to the posterior margin 3 in consequence 
the strigee appear divided, resembling in some cases two successive figures of the form of 
the letter Y, The posterior portions of the strigze have undefined, spreading edges, and in many 
individuals the whole of the posterior portion of the wing is milky and discoloured. Of 
the three marginal strigze, the interior is broadest and most prominent ; reaching the posterior 
part of the wing, its inner edge expands in a diffuse radiant border, gradually mingling itself 
with the cloudy milky surface ; the intermediate one is undulating, and composed of a con- 
nected series of lunules directed outwards ; the exterior striga is continued, regular, parallel with 
the margin, and exteriorly defined by a narrow black line, beyond which is a grayish cé/ia, 
Hindwing, these marginal strigee preserve the same character, until they are partially inter- 
rupted in the anal region ; the surface of the wing is further marked with six transverse strigze, 
disposed in three pairs, one near the base, a second across the disc, a third intermediate be- 
tween this and the marginal ones ; the basal strigze are delicate and regularly transverse, with a 
slight curve at the interior margin ; the discoidal pair is not continued quite to the exterior 
margin, but has, at its commencement, a short intermediate lineola ; at the interior margin it is 
inflected inwards, so as to form, abruptly, an acute angle ; the third pair extends only half across 
the wing, having a short intermediate lineola at its posterior termination. In the anal region there 
are three ocellated spots ; the largest, situated on the posterior margin just without the caudal 
* I retain the better-known name @/ianus for this species, though a/e.zis is prior in date, 
