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plant. Mr. W. C. Taylor informs me that it feeds in Orissa on a plant named Dolichos 
catjang, Roxburgh, which is also one of the food-plants of C. cmejus, Fabricius. 
Little need be said regarding the distribution of this common species, as it seems to 
occur almost everywhere from the lower and outer ranges of the Himalayas to Ceylon and 
Singapore, and in the Andaman and Nicobar Isles. Throughout its Indian range C. strabo 
appears to be very constant in coloration and markings if the next species is considered to 
be distinct. Mr. W. H. Irvine writes to me that at Bholahat, Malda, he once took C. strabo 
coupled with C. cejus, Fabricius. 
744. Catochrysops lithargyria, Moore. 
Lampides lithareyria, Moore, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fourth series, vol. xx, p. 340 (1877) ; idem, 
id., Lep. Cey., vol. x, p. gt (1881); id., Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xvi, p- 
336, n. 73 (1885) ; id., Elwes and de Nicéville, Journ, A. S. B., vol: lv, pt. 2, p. 420, n. 97 (1886). 
Hapirat: Ceylon (Moore); near Assam (Butler); Tavoy (Elwes and de Nicéville) 5 
Andaman Isles; Philippines. 
EXPANSE: ¢@, 1'2 to 1°5 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ® MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings greyish silvery-blue, with a very nar- 
row marginal black border. Hndwing with two triangular spots from the anal angle. Cz/za 
white, with dusky marginal inner line. UNDERSIDE, doth wings white. Forewing with a broad 
greyish-brown spot at the end of the cell, a transverse discal maculated band with a contiguous 
spot atthe upper end, a narrower submarginal band, and very indistinct marginal Iunules. 
Hindwing with two prominent black costal spots, two greyish-brown subbasal spots, a 
broad spot at the end of the cell, a curved diseal macular band, a marginal series of lunular 
spots enclosed by a broad dentate band, the penultimate spot being black and bordered above 
with ochreous.” 
** Allied to Z. kandarpfa, Horsfield [=C. stvabo, Fabricius ], also from Ceylon, but of 
an entirely different colour above and beneath, and the markings of the underside all much 
broader. Also allied to Z. [=C.] flatissa, Herrich-Schiffer, from Australia.” (Jfoore, |. c, 
in Ann and Mag. of Nat. Hist.) Herr Georg Semper no doubt correctly states that the last- 
named species is also a synonym of C. strabo. 
‘«Ts this really a species distinct from C, stvabo, Fabricius? It only differs in the shade 
of colour of the upperside, C. stvabo being ‘lilac-blue,’ €. dthargyria ‘greyish silvery-blue.’ 
The two always appear to occur together, and the female of the latter species is even now 
pndescribed.” (Elwes and de Nicéville, |. c.) 
I have but little to say regarding this species, the specific distinctness of which is, in my 
opinion, very questionable. Besides the localities given for it above, the Indian Museum, 
Calcutta, has two specimens from Sibsagar in Upper Assam, one from Mergui taken by Dr. J. 
Anderson in December, and one from the Andaman Isles. I possess a single example from the 
Philippines sent me by Herr Semper. 
745. Catochrysops ecnejus, Fabricius. 
Hesperia cnejus, Fabricius, Ent Syst., Suppl., p. 430, n. 100-101 (1798) ; Polyommatus cnejxs, Godart, 
Enc. Méth., vol. ix, p 657, n. 135 (1823) 5 Lycena cnejus, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C., p. 83, n. 18 (1829) 5 
id., Moore, Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 773; id., Herrich-Schaffer, Ex. Schmett., vol. ii, fig. 120, 
Jemale (1869) ; Lampides cnejus, Butler, Cat. Fab. Lep B. M., p. 165, n. 13 (1869); id., Semper, Journ. 
Mus. Godef., vol. xiv, p. 158, n. 61 (1879) ; Cupido cnejus, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 348, n.7 5 
Catochrysops cneyus, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 92 (1881) ; id., Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, p- 605, 
n. 35; id., Moore, l. c., 1882, p. 246; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 225, m. 2, pl. xxi, fig. 2, sale (1884) ; 
p. 456, n. 2, pl. xliv, fig. 15, female (1886) ; C. cneius, Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 133, n. 170 
(1886); Lycena pandia, Kollar, Hiigel’s Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt. 2, p. 418, n. 2 (1848); L. patala, id., 1. c., 
p. 419, n. 4; Lampides patala, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 547, Mn. x 
(1877) ; Catochrysops patala, id., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 148, n. 143 id., Swinhoe, l. c., 1885, p. 131, 
n. 533; idem, id., l. c., 1886, p. 426, n. 38; Lyce@na samoa, Herrich-Schaffer, Stett. Ent. Zeit., vol. xxx, p. 374 
n. 30, pl. iv, fig. 18, female ; also page 138 (1869). 
HapiraT: Throughout India, Ceylon, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Nias, Andaman and 
Nicobar Isles, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Philippines, China, Australia, South Sea Islands, 
