zo LYCAENID. CATAPCECILMA, 
966. Horaga albimacnla, W.-M. & de N. (PLATE XXV, Fic. 148). 
* Sithon’ albimacula, Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 249, n. 68 (188r) 5 
Horaga albimacula, de Nicéville, 1. c., vol. lvii, pt. 2, p. 284, pl. xiv, fig. 9, ale (1888). 
HaBirTaT: South Andaman Isles. 
EXPANSE: é&, 1’09 to 1°20 inches, 
DESCRIPTION: ** MALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing brown-black of a vinous tint, with a large 
conspicuous oval white discal spot equal in length to halfthe breadth of the part of the organ 
on which it lies, equally distant from the opposite margins, and so placed that its major axis 
and more pointed anterior end are directed towards the middle of the costa. AHindwing dark 
violet-blue, bordered increasingly from the base of the anterior margin to the apical angle and 
thence decreasingly to the anal angle with fuscous-black, and from the submedian nervure to 
the abdominal margin with greyish-black ; with a fine black anteciliary line and, immediately 
internal to this, a very faint and fine silver-grey line decreasing from the anal angle and 
dwindling to nothing before reaching the apical angle ; with the ci/ia dark brown, evenly 
tipped with silvery-white ; and with the ¢az/s black-brown, the unequal submedian and second 
median shorter ones edged internally with silvery-white cilia, and the longer intermediate 
first median one white-tufted at its inner extremity. UNDERSIDE, of wigs much lighter. 
Forewing with a broad and prominent white band bordered both sides with fuscous of a darker 
shade than the rest of the ground-colour, passing off from the greyish-white basal portion of 
the inner margin across the organ to within a short distance of the costa, increasing in its 
course toa little beyond the first median nervule, and thence decreasing to its anterior 
extremity (which is washed with fuscous), so that its outline, while almost straight internally, 
is bluntly obtuse-angled externally ; and with the outer margin at the inner angle obsoletely 
trilineated ‘with white as in the hindwing. inzdwing with a narrower and less conspicuous 
discal whitish band of uniform width throughout, not sharply defined, but on the contrary 
diffused externally, and bordered internally ‘with a line of fuscous which is darker than the 
ground, sharply bent inwards at right angles to itself to the abdominal margin, and exter- 
nally margined with brassy at its posterior end; with the deep black spot of the small anal 
lobe, a large patch of grey scales between the ends of the submedian nervure and the first 
median nervule, an intense black spot next to and about half the size of this between the 
ends of the first and second median nervules, and a very short and transversely elongated 
or narrow similar but inconspicuous black spot between the ends of the first and second 
median nervules, all internally margined with a discontinuous line of brassy scales which 
extends from the point where the dark discal striga with its brassy edging reaches the 
abdominal margin all along the outer margin of the organs, following the inner contours of the 
above-described spots, up to the second subcostal nervule ; and with the external margin finely 
lineated with three regularly concentric silvery- white lines separated from one another by the 
black anteciliary line and the brown bases of the cilia.” (Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, 1. c.) 
In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, are two males of this species collected by the late 
Mr. A. R. de Roepstorff, and in my own collection are five more males obtained by 
Mr. R. Wimberley, all from the Andaman Isles. This species shares with A. viola, Moore, 
the peculiarity of having no “ male-mark.” The female has yet to be discovered. 
The figure shows both sides of the male type specimen from the South Andaman Isles 
in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. It gives a very poor representation of the 
species, and hardly shews the large well-defined violet discal patch of the hindwing. 
Gonus 160.—CATAP@ICILMA, Butler. (PLare XXIX). 
Catapecilma, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 547 (1877) ; id., Moore, 
Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 97 (1881) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 234 (1884). 
“Allied to Lampides, Hiibner, and Miletus, Hiibner, but differs from both in having three 
tails to the hindwing; the antennz are long, slender and acuminate; the wing-cells and 
