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forewing, which are placed end to end in a straight line instead of angle to angle; this 
arrangement brings the last of the series much nearer to the external angle.” 
‘* What Ican only regard as a dwarfed form of this species occurs commonly at Mhow 
in December and January. Colonel Swinhoe, however, goes further than I do, and thinks 
that this and other allied forms are all seasonal varieties of C. cvejus ; he probably means 
C. patala, since C. cnejuts has the spots across the disc of the forewing below arranged 
angle to angle as in C. e/a. Colonel Swinhoe further remarks that this small form (of C. Aapa* 
Zina) is as beautifully coloured as my C. contracta; and observes, ‘Certainly the C. contracta 
from Madras are really very beautifully coloured ; but then, again, the most beautifully colour- 
ed C. cnejus comes from Madras also—a moist part of India where all bluish-coloured butter- 
flies are very beautiful.’ ” 
‘© C. contracta, as far as my knowledge goes, is confined to Kandahar: the markings of the 
underside are different in character from those of either the C. pata/a or C. cnejus groups ; the 
spots of the discal series form a broken line, the upper part regular, the lower irregular. Unless 
such differences are admitted as of specific value, many of the best-established and hitherto 
universally admitted species will have to be united—an action to which few, if any, careful stu- 
dents of the Lepidoptera will give their sanction.” (Butler, 1. ¢,) 
“Common at Mhow in December, but one or two found in October, November and 
January.” (Szwe2hoe.) 
Major Yerbury records it as common on babul-bushes in October” at Campbellpore. 
Mr. Butler records it from Khairabad, 11th April; Campbellpore, 11th September and 21st 
October ; Hurripur, 14th October. 
In Colonel Swinhoe’s collection are twelve specimens he identifies as C. hapalina, from 
Alibagh and Mhow, and eight more which he considers to bea variety of that species from 
Mhow and Poona, The distinctions between this species and C. cvejus are so extremely 
slight that I cannot consider them to be of specific value: all the markings of the underside 
are less defined and duller and the insect is smaller, that is all ; these are differences due to 
a dry climate, and not improbably are of a seasonal nature as well. 
750. Catochrysops pandava, Horsfield. 
Lycena pandava, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co., p. 84, n. 19 (1829); Catochrysops pandava, Moore, Lep. 
Cey., vol. i, p. 92, pl. xxxvii, fig. 1, wale; 1a, female ; 14, larve and pupa (1881) ; id., Distant, Rhop. 
Malay., p. 225, n. 3, pl. xxi, fig. 17, azale (1884); id., de Nicéville, Journ, A. S. B., vol. liv, pt. 2, p. 47, n. 
74 (1885) ; C. dengalia, id., 1. c., n. 75. 
HasitaT: Himalayas, Oudh, Bengal, Assam, Orissa, North Kanara, Bangalore, Pulni 
Hills, Ceylon, Andaman and Nicober Isles, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java, Bantam. 
EXPANSE: ¢@, 2, °9 to 1°3 inches. 
Wet-season form. (PLATE XXVII, Fic. 187 9). 
DESCRIPTION : ‘MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings bright lavender-blue. Forewing with 
the outer margin fuscous. Azzdwing with the costal margin fuscous, the outer margin with a 
series of blackish spots placed between the nervules, between which and the narrow black 
margin is a slightly undulating white line. Zaz/ blackish, with its apex white. Cz//a of both 
wings fuscous, the tips greyish-white. UNDERSIDE, 40th wings pale greyish-brown, with the 
foliowing narrow greyish-white linear fascize arranged in pairs, and between which the colour is 
distinctly darker :—forew?ng with two disco-cellular at the end of the cell, followed outwardly 
by two crossing the wing from near the fourth subcostal nervule, which are abruptly broken and 
deflected inwardly beneath both the second and first median nervules, two broad submarginal and 
one narrow marginal : Azzdwéng with two disco-cellular at end of cell, two crossing wing broken 
and deflected at the lower subcostal and median nervules, two lunulated and submarginal, and 
one straight marginal, the last coalescing with the outer submarginal and thus enclosing a 
series of dark spots, a large black marginal spot with a few greenish scales between the secord 
and first median nervules, and some smaller spots of the same colour at the anal angle ; 
