LYCAINIDA CAMENA. 34! 
brown, an apical brown spot irrorated with white. UNDERSIDE, doth wings glossy prey, with a 
brown spot at the end of the cell, crossed beyond the middle by a band of dark brown 
spots bordered with white, with a band of brown (scarcely visible on the forewing) near the 
outer margin. Aindwing with a submarginal band of brown spots, the two apical [anal] 
spots crowned with orange.” (ezitson, 1. c.) FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, forew?mng differs from the 
male in the absence of the two black spots. Otherwise as in the male. 
The males of this beautiful species are very common in Sikkim, where it occurs in 
June and October. As far as I am aware, it occurs nowhere else, though Mr. Elwes records it 
from the Jaintia Hills) Myr. Hewitson describes the markings of the upperside as dark brown. 
They are really very deep black, and the forewirg presents the appearance of a blue area 
marked in the middle with a large round black spot, and another oblong one on the middle of 
the inner margin. I have never seen a female. 
The figure shows both sides of a male specimen from Sikkim in my collection. 
895. Camona deva, Moore. 
Amblypodia deva, Moore, Hcrsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C., vol. i, p. 46, n. 74 (1857); 
Tolaus deva, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn, Lep., p. 42, n. 8. pl. xviii, figs. 4, 5, male; 3, /emale (1865); Pratafa deva, 
Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 108 (1881); vol. iii, p. 531, pl. ccx, figs. 2, male; 2a, female (1887); id., 
Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 128, n. 139 (1886). 
Hasirar: Canara, Ceylon (4/oore), Kapkot, Kumaon, 4,000 feet (Doherty), Dehra Dun, 
Malda, Sikkim, Burma, Nias Island. 
EXPANSE: @, 1°25 to 1°50; 9, 1°40 to 1°60 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘MALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing with the discoidal cell and posterior 
base brilliant deep blue intersected by the dark median and submedian nervures, costal margin 
and anterior half of the wing to beyond the posterior angle dark brown. Hindwing with 
the middle from the base brilliant deep blue, a broad anterior and narrow exterior margin 
of dark brown, along the exterior margin are disposed some blackish marks, a black spot 
at the anal angle, surrounded with whitish, abdominal margin pale brown; /az/s two, brown 3 
cilia whitish. UNDERSIDE, 60th wings cream-colour, with a series of interrupted marks disposed 
in an undulating line across the wings, and terminating in a zig-zag manner abdominally on 
the hindwing. AHindwing, anal angle with a black spot, bordered anteriorly with red, and 
another of the same a short distance off on the exterior margin. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, 40th 
wings paler blue, and with lighter brown margins.” (AZoore, 1. c. in Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C.) 
Mr. Doherty notes that a female taken by him in Kumaon ‘‘resembles a specimen from 
Sikkim [terai] in the Indian Museum, being much darker than those from Canara and the plains 
of Bengal, the blue on the forewing covering only the lower half of the base of the cell, paler 
blue from the hind margin to just above the second median nervule, broken by black veins, 
the margin broad and black. Hindwing bluish as in P. [=C.] deva, but powdered with grey 
scales, and interrupted by black veins, and by a submarginal line of joined dark lunules, 
the costal border widely dark. Owing to my ignorance of the male, I am unwilling to 
describe the species as new,” As regards the Sikkim specimen referred to above, I do not at 
allthink that it represents one sex of a new species, it is simply a melanoid varietal form 
only. As in the case of C. cleobis, Godart, females in this genus appear to vary a good deal 
in the extent of the black coloration on the upperside. 
The distribution of this species is probably much more extensive than the localities given 
above would appear to indicate. It occurs at three distant points on the Himalayas, and 
two even more distant spots in the plains of India, and in Ceylon. It may be expected to 
turn up in all intermediate localities. In Sikkim it is very rare, Mr. Otto Méller possesses 
one male and four females, one of the latter was taken in November, and the one from the 
Terai referred to above in August. In Ceylon it has been taken at Balangada, Bamagalla, 
Goonambil in July, and at Wattigama in February, by Mr. Mackwood. A specimen of this 
species in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, has been identified as the next 
species by Mr. Moore, but is a true C. deva. 
