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dry-season form of Z. e/ianus as a distinct species as below, calling it Z. confererda,* I also 
give descriptions of Z. agnata, Druce, and L. malaccanus, Rober, which appear to represent 
other varietal forms, and are treated as such by Mr, Distant, 
Larva when full-fed just half an inch in length, of a dull reddish-green colour, thickly 
shagreened with minute white tubercles, scarcely if at all hairy ; the head pale ochreous, 
entirely hidden beneath the second segment, the segments increasing in width to about the 
fifth, the two anal segments slightly decreasing and above flattened, especially the thirteenth ; 
the erectile organs very small ; a dorsal pulsating line somewhat darker than the rest of the 
body, a subdorsal series of pale green oblique streaks, one on each segment on each side from the 
third to the eleventh segment inclusive; no other conspicuous markings. Dr. Forel has 
identified the ant that attends the larva in Calcutta as Camponotus mitis, Smith (=dacchus, 
Smith, =ventralis, Smith). Dr. G. King identifies the plant on which the larva feeds in 
Calcutta as Heynea trijuga, Roxburgh. Pupa of the usual lycanid shape, quite smooth, 
neither hairy nor pitted, pale ochreous-greenish, the upper portions of the abdominal 
segments darker, covered throughout with coarse rounded blackish spots placed irregularly ; a 
dorsal and subdorsal series of similar but larger spots or blotches placed regularly. Head bluntly 
rounded, thorax slightly humped and constricted posteriorly, end of the abdomen rounded. 
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* Lampides conferenda, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xviii, p. 185, n. 25 (1886), 
Hasirat : Deyra Doon, Poona, Calcutta, Sylhet, Assam, Sheemagar, and thirty miles above Mandalay, Upper 
Burma, December. EXpANSE: 1°25 inches. DerscripTion: ‘‘ Hitherto confounded with Z. a/exzs, Stoll, but 
readily to be distinguished from the fact that it is ofa sandy instead of greyish-brown colour on the UNDERSIDE, 
and that the whole of the bands are shifted backwards towards the base, leaving a wide pale band between the 
discal bands and the external border ; the submarginal series of spots ill-defined ; none of the markings distinctly 
white-edged, and the subanal ocellus of the Aindwing very small.” 
. .‘ This is the commonest form of the Z. a/exis group. Though hitherto regarded as a variety of Z. alexis, 
it has as much claim to specific rank as any of the species of the Z. e/fis group,* the differences being precisely 
of the same character as in the variously named forms of that group.” (Bzz/er, |. c.) i 
. This is a very common dry-season form of L. elianus, which, according to Colonel Lang, ‘‘ occurs plentifully 
in September and October on the lower slopes and in the valleys below Naini Tal, from 4,000 feet elevation down- 
wards to 1,000 feet, but it is mixed with others having different tints (brown, ferruginous or castaneous) of the 
underside, and it occurs on exactly the same ground as the previous wet-season broods of typical Z. edianus. 
L. alexis (with LZ. conferenda, which is only one of the many forms which cannot be separated off into definite 
or distinct varieties even) is only the (dry) seasonal form of typical Z. e/ianus.” 
* This is probably aslip for “*Z. elianus group,” as LZ. alexis has nothing to do with L. e/fis, and is, in 
fact, placed by Mr. Moore in his Lep. Cey. as a synonym of LZ. elianus. 
Lampides (Cupido) agnata, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 106, n. 4, pl. xvi, figs. 2, 4, ale 3 3, 
Jemale ; Lampides agnata, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 547, n_ 8 (1877) 5 
L. elianus, var. a, agnata, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 228 (1884). Hasrrat: Malacca ; Singapore ; Nahconch- 
aisee, Siam. ExpansE: Male and female, 15 inches. DrscripTIon : ‘MALE. Uppersib, doth wings bluish- 
white. Forewing with the outer margin slightly dusky. UNDERsIDE, doth wings pale _greyish-brown. 
Forewing crossed beyond the cell with six irregular white bands. AHindwing with eight, the first two close to 
the base ; two black spots near the anal angle surrounded with orange. FEMALE. UppERsIpDE, doth wings 
bluish-white. Forewing with the apical half pale brown, broadest at the costal margin. Hixdwinxg from the 
base to the apex brown, extending to the middle of the cell, outer margin brown, crossed by a band of white 
lunular markings. UNDERSIDE, 40th wings as in the male.” (Drace, |. c.) 
““This proposed species, judging from Mr. Druce’s figures, appears to be a variety of Z. elianus, differing 
from the typical form on the underside of the forewing, by the arrangement of the greyish linear fascie, of 
which the innermost of the first and second pairs appear to be—beneath the cellular area—more irregularly 
deflected and waved.” (Déstant, |. c.) 
Lampides malaccanus, Rober. Plebeius malaccanus, Rober, Isis, vol. i, p. 57, pl. iv, fig. 3, wale (1886). 
HasitatT : Perak, Philippines. ExpaNsE: Male, 1°3 inches. DescripTION : “* MALE. UppersIDE, doth wings 
light blue with a more saturated exterior margin (Malacca), whitish-blue (Philippines); the white markings of the 
underside showing through, slightly on the forewing, more so on the hindwing ; the exterior margin in the blue 
specimens dark brown, on the hindwing with an interrupted white marginal line, anda few dark spots on 
the exterior margin ; in the light specimens the markings of the underside shew through more, and on this 
account on the exterior margin of the forewing there are some dark spots and a dark band, as also on the 
exterior margin of the hindwing is a row of dark light-encircled spots, anda dark undulating band ; the costal 
and inner margins of the hindwing whitish ; the ¢a/Z with a white tip. UNDsRSIDE, doth wings grey-brown 
with white markings, on the exterior margin somewhat darker ; the large black spot between the first and second 
median nervules of the hindwing very broadly encircled with orange and dusted with metallic green ; the small 
black spot at the anal angle dusted with metallic green and encircled with yellow. YAovax clothed with blue 
hairs ; abdomen above grey-brown, below and fectus whitish ; axtenne black, ringed with white below ; falpz 
black above, white below ; degs white ; farsz ringed with black. ” (Rdder, 1. c.) 
__ Judging from the figure, this species has the outer black margin to the forewing on the upperside a little less 
wide than in typical Z. elianus, Fabricius, rather broader than in Z. puva, Moore. On the underside of the 
forewing the characteristic strie are arranged as follows:—No. 1 is continuous from the costa to the inner 
margin ; no. 2 is short, extending from the costa to the median nervure ; no. 3 is long, reaches from the costa 
to the inner margin, and is deflected inwardly somewhat (though not broken) below the median nervure, forming 
a Y with no. 2 stria, this stria forming the left upper arm of the Y ; no. 4 stria is short, extends from the costa 
to the second median nervule. This species may, perhaps, be known by the large size of the black spot broadly 
encircled with orange in the first median interspace of the hindwing on the underside, which, as figured, appears 
to be nearly as large as the ocellus in Z. subdita, Moore. 
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