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greenish at the base, with a broad dark brown border twice as wide at apex as towards the 
external angle. Aindwing with a black marginal line and a submarginal series of six 
ocelloid spots, less distinct in the male than in the female, the first indistinct, the three 
following brown with white borders, the fifth large, black, with the border white externally 
and orange internally, anal spot bifid, black with white border ; ¢az/ black tipped with white. 
UNDERSIDE, both wings brownish-grey, with the spots arranged as in C. cnejus, but broader, 
less prominent ; the submarginal spots relieved internally by a rather broad brown border, 
beyond which is a diffused discal white streak or band; the black ocelli towards the anal 
angle vary in extensity, and sometimes are almost wholly lost, as in the male before me. 
FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings lilac, greenish at the base, with a blackish marginal line 
and indistinct ocelloid submarginal spots. Aczdwing as in the male, but the submarginal 
series of six ocelloid spots more distinct than in the male, the first indistinct. UNDERSIDE, 
both wingsasin the male. Cz/ia white throughout in both sexes.” (Auzéler, 1. c. in Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond., 1881). From. C. Aapalina, Butler, it is at once distinguished by “ its brighter 
colouring above and smoky-grey underside.” (Bztler, 1. c. in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1886). 
** C. ella is a brilliantly blue species, with a broad black border to the forewing in the 
male ; it can readily be recognised from its vague resemblance to some of the species of /amzdes 
(7. plato [=/. bochus, Cramer] for instance); it is not quite so brilliantly coloured, though 
brighter than any other Catochrysops.” (Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., sixth series, 
vol. i, p. 145 (1888). 
I have rearranged the sentences of the original description, which is difficult to follow 
as it stands, the writer having mixed up the opposite sexes. In Colonel Swinhoe’s collection 
are twenty-two specimens supposed to belong to this species, but they do not agree with 
the description of it. Mr. Butler says “ male witha broad dark brown border twice as 
wide at apex as towards the external angle.” This is quite inexplicable to me, the males of 
every species of this genus have a narrow outer black margin of equal width throughout to 
the forewing on the upperside, and I can only surmise that he has described two female speci- 
mens as male and female, unless Colonel Swinhoe’s specimens are wrongly identified, or Mr, 
Butler had a butterfly before him when he wrote entirely different from every known species in 
the genus. Again, hindwing of the male on the upperside with ‘a submarginal series of six 
ocelloid spots.” I can find no male Catochrysops exhibiting this feature, but the spots are more 
or less present in all females. ‘Then, on the underside the spots are said to be broader than in 
C. cnejus. As C. ella is considerably smaller than typical C. czejus the spots would naturally be 
smaller too. I cannot identify:the species by the description, and can only surmise that it is 
a dwafted form of C. cwejus occurring in the arid region of Sind and the Punjab. Colonel 
Swinhoe’s specimens are from the Hubb river in Biluchistan, Karachi, Mhow, Madras, 
Bisnuggur in Guzerat, and Hyderabad in Sind. They show the greatest variation, and, if all 
these species of Catochrysops allied to cwejus are to be kept distinct, certainly represent several 
more of such species. 
748. Catochrysops contracta, Butler. 
Lampides contracta, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 406, n. 10, pl. xxxix, fig. 3, male 3 Catochrysops 
contracta? Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 606, n. 16; id., Swinhoe, l. c., 1884, p. 506, n. 20. 
Hasitat: Kandahar, Kutch (Buéler) ; Karachi, Madras (Swinhoe). 
EXxpaNnse: ¢, ‘92; 2, ‘83 of an inch. 
DESCRIPTION : ‘MALE, UPppersIDpE, glossy lilac, the Jody dark grey, with the head 
and sides of abdomen white, antenne black annulated with white. Both wings with a slender 
black marginal line, cz/éa white ; base of wings bluish ; costal border of /forewzng pale 
bluish from the base to the end of the cell. Aéndwing witha brownish costal border ; two 
black spots, the inner one bifid, above the tail, succeeded by a slender white line ; ¢ad/ black 
tipped with white. UNDERSIDE, doth wings very pale whitey-brown, with a white-bordered pale 
brown elongated spot at the end of each cell, followed by a discal series of similar spots, interrupt- 
edin the hindwing ; a marginal series of white and brown ocelloid spots of the usual form. 
