184 LYCANIDA, CATOCHRYSOPS. 
these spots inwardly margined with reddish-ochraceous, which colour is also slightly continued 
between the third and second median nervules ; five black spots surrounded with greyish-white, 
situated two between the costal [and subcostal] nervures, one in the cell, one between the bases of 
the first median nervule and the submedian nervure, and one (smaller) near the base of the ab- 
dominal margin. ody and Zegs more or less concolorous with the wings.” (Déstant, |. c.) 
‘* FEMALE agrees in size and in the markings of the UPPERSIDE of doth wings generally with C. 
cnejus, Fabricius ; a slight difference is afforded by the interior anal ocellus of the Aindwing, 
which here consists of two narrow, oblong, confluent spots, without rufous lunule, but bounded 
interiorly by an emarginate white line ; the wedge-shaped marks along the inner border are 
replaced by a transverse series of lunules. UNDERSIDE, doth wings yellowish-gray, with a very 
faint shade of brown ; in the number and disposition of the markings it also resembles C. 
cnejus, but it possesses a distinguishing peculiarity in the brilliancy of the white marginal strigz 
and in the greater breadth and deeper shade of the brown bands producing a striking contrast 
of colours: on the disc of both wings stands a short transverse stigma ; behind this follows a 
broad catenulated band, regular in the forewing, with a few inflexions at the inner margin, 
but interrupted and irregularly curved in the hindwing; the marginal white strige, three in 
number, are strongly pronounced ; the most exterior passes without undulations, in contact 
with the brown marginal. thread, through, both wings ; the two anterior strigee are waving in 
the forewing and flexuose in the hindwing, embracing two series of catenulated bands, com- 
posed of oblong spots in the former, and of angular ones in the latter. Mzxvdwine has the 
posterior margin adorned with two anal ocelli ; the largest being placed exterior of the caudal 
appendage, and the other in the space towards the anal angle ; an obscure black dot stands 
between them and another at the extreme angle of the wing ; the exterior ocellus is covered 
internally by a very broad rufous arc, slightly notched at each side ; a rufous streak is continued to 
the inner margin, being of a more saturated tint above the interior ocellus ; a small exterior lunule 
of golden irrorations, adorns the large ocellus, and the small ocellus has on the margin an in- 
terrupted golden ring ; there are five black spots encircled with white on the anterior portion of 
the hindwing ; two of these, of a more saturated tint, stand in contact with the costa, the re- 
maining form a transverse basal row, the penultimate spot being rather obsolete. The /az/ is 
slender and tipt with white ; the azfenne brown with white ringsand tip ; the ¢iorax and body 
are brown above and gray underneath, the former being covered with a bluish down and the 
latter annulated with white.” (Hovrs/field, 1. c.) 
The figure shows both sides of a female specimen of the wet-season form from Bangalore 
in my collection. 
Dry-seasan form. (PLATE XXVII, Fic. 188 @). 
DESCRIPTION: ‘** MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings violet-blue. Cilia dusky. Forewing wilh 
the outer margin narrowly black. Hindwing with a marginal series of dusky oval spots, the third 
from the anal angle larger, black and round ; an anteciliary black line ; tail dusky with a 
white tip. UNDERSIDE, both wings grey. Cilia grey spotted with dusky. Forewing with a 
white-bordered brownish spot closing the cell, a curved discal series of joined similar spots, 
two series of marginal lunules, a black anteciliary line. A/zzdweng with four subbasal dusky 
spots surrounded with white ; a much curved discal series, the upper spot on the costa usually 
the most prominent, and a spot closing the cell; marginal lunules much as in the forewing, but 
more prominent ; a small black spot faintly crowned with orange in the first median inter- 
space, and three very minute anal ones beyond it, all four sometimes absent. In some speci- 
mens the discal series of spots on the forewing are much elongated towards the middle of the 
wing, and in all the specimens I have seen, except two from Sikkim, the spots on the disc and 
the one glosing the cell of the hindwing have coalesced, forming an irregular brown patch in 
the middle of the wing, which patch sometimes reaches and includes the subbasal spots. FEMALE. 
UPpPERSIDE, doth wings shining iridescent violet-blue. /ovewng with the apex widely and the 
outer margin decreasingly black. Azxdwing with the costal margin dusky, Otherwise as in the 
male.” 
