182 LYCAENIDA. CATOCHRYSOPS. 
findwing with three black spots above the tail at the anal angle, with two outer ones large, 
zoned with orange and varied with metallic golden green, the outermost spot extremely 
small ; two subcostal black spots and a third within the cell. Body below white. FEMALE, 
UPPERSIDE, 40th wings pale brown, with a slender black marginal line followed by a brown 
line. Czita white. Forewing, washed towards base of interno-median area with silvery blue. 
Hindwing with a series of six ocelloid spots close to outer margin—the first indistinct ; the 
first four brown with white borders ; the fifth large, black, with orange inner and white outer 
border ; the sixth bifid, black with bluish inner and white outer border ; ¢az/ black, tipped 
with white. ody browner than in the male. UNDERSIDE slightly browner than in the male ; 
otherwise the same.” 
** Allied to Z.[=C.] cnejus, Fabricius ; but constantly smaller and of an entirely different 
colour, the upperside of the male being altogether blue and the underside whiter ; the 
female is also paler ; the pattern of the underside is very like that of Lycena galba [from 
Beirut, Persia] as figured by Lederer. Mr. Moore has a series of Z. comtracta from Kutch.” 
(Butler, 1. c.) 
“Rare in Kandahar in May, very common in June, not so variable in size as Z. detica, 
Linnzus, and much smaller.” (Roderts, 1. c.) 
“T believe this form to be only a seasonal variety of C. cmejus; but Mr. A. G. Butler, 
whose authority is much to be respected, thinks otherwise. I tried to breed them, but failed.” 
(Swinhoe, 1. c. in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1884, p. 506.) 
“Common in Karachi from May to September. Butler’s type came from Kandahar ; the 
Karachi examples are identical with the Kandahar form.” (Swzxhoe, Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc., 
vol. ii, p. 273, n. 21 (1887). 
In Colonel Swinhoe’s collection are twenty-five specimens he identifies as this species 
from the Hubb River in Biluchistan, Karachi, Hyderabad in Sind, Mhow, and Kadgodi. 
The males show great variation in the shade of coloration of the upperside, some being quite 
blue, others almost as violet-blue as in typical C, czejus. In my opinion it isa variable 
dwarfed form of C. cvejus only, and not entitled to specific rank. 
749. Catochrysops hapalina, Butler. 
C. hafalina, Butler, Proc. Zool, Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 148, n. 15, pl. xxiv, figs. 2, male; 3, female; 
id., Swinhoe, I, c., 1885, p. 131, n. 543 idem, id., I, c., 1886, p. 426, n. 39; id., Butler, Ann. and Mag. 
of Nat, Hist., sixth series, vol. i, p. 145, n. 41 (1888). 
HapitatT: Mhow, September to January ; Campbellpore, September and October ; 
Poona, January to May ; Khairabad, April ; Hurripur, October. 
EXPANSE: ¢, 1°05 3 2, 1°10 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : ‘ MALE. Allied to C. e/a, Butler. UPPERSIDE, both wines pale lilac 
with strong pale golden-brown reflections, which sometimes almost overpower the lilac tint ; 
base of wings blackish and blue; a slender blackish marginal line. C2/éa white. findwing 
with a short and very slender black tail edged with white ; two white-bordered black spots. 
near the anal angle. ody blackish. UNDERSIDE, both wings greyish-white, with faint golden 
tints in certain lights; markings as in C. psata/a, Kollar, but less distinct ; the two anal 
ocelli small, with no metallic scales in the type; the female, however, and such specimens 
of both sexes as are darker and bluer than the type above, have a metallic annulus of green 
on each ocellus; one male taken in January has this annulus of bright gold. FEMALE. 
UPPERSIDE, both wings blackish. Yorewing with the exception of a broad apical patch 
tapering to beyond the middle of the costal border and a broad external border, suffused 
with bluish-lilac, “/zndwzng with the basal three-fifths, excepting towards the costa, of the same 
colour bounded externally by a narrow band of white spots; five submarginal black spots 
with white borders, those of the last two touched at the back with orange and bluish scales z 
otherwise almost exactly as in the male,” 
“This species may readily be distinguished from C. e//a by the whiter tint of the 
underside, and the arrangement of the spots in the transverse series across the disc of the 
