LYCENID. CATAPCECILMA. 421 
neuration generally are very like that of Zamfides ; the wings below are spangled with silver, 
much as in Adzletus (Hypochrysops, part, Felder).” (Butler, 1. c.) 
“ FOREWING, subtriangular ; cos/al margin ouly slightly convex, afex obtusely rounded, 
outer margin moderately convex and scalloped, zzer margin slightly concavely sinuate ; 
costal nervure short, terminating on the costa nearly opposite the end of the cell ; first sud- 
costal nervule emitted near the middle of the cell, second about midway between the bases of 
the first and third, ¢kzrd emitted close to the end of the cell and continued to the apex 3 
second medéan nervule emitted about one-fifth before the end of the cell, fs¢ median a little 
beyond the middle. HINDWING, irregularly subovate 3 costal margin convex at the base 
and then nearly straight to the apex, which is rounded, fosteréor margin very slightly scal- 
loped, with three slender ¢az/s situated respectively at the apices of the second and first 
median nervules and of the submedian nervure; cosfal mwervure extending to about the apex 
of the wing ; szdbcostal nervules bifurcating about one-third before the end of the cell, ¢érd and 
second median nervules emitted close together near the end of the cell. Palpz moderately 
long, much compressed, second joint projecting more than half beyond the head and longly 
hirsute beneath; apical joint slender, but well-formed. Antenne with a gradually-formed 
but well-developed apical club.” yes hairy. (D¢stané, 1. c.) 
The neuration of Catapeci/ma agrees very closely with that of Moraga, Moore, but the 
male never has secondary sexual characters as are found in most of the species of the latter 
genus. In the forewing the middle disco-cellular nervule is upright, shorter than the lower, 
the latter slightly concave and slightly inwardly oblique. Inthe hindwing the upper disco- 
cellular nervule is slightly concave and a little outwardly oblique, the lower the same length 
as the upper, straight and upright ; the second and third median nervules have a common origin 
at the lower end of the discoidal cell; the internal nervure is very short, shorter even than 
in Rathinda, Moore. The tails are exactly as in Rathinda and Horaga. 
Two species only are certainly known up to the present time ; one, C. elegans, Druce, has a 
wide range in India, occurring also in Ceylon, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Nias Island, and 
Borneo ; the other, C. delzcatum, de Nicéville, has hitherto been found in Sikkim only. <A third 
species has been recorded from Malacca, but, as it is described and figured as having two tails 
only, it may belong to another genus. The two Indian species possess three very slender 
tails to the hindwing, the middle one about twice as long as the others. All the species 
are very beautifully marked with silvery-green or metallic-violet bands and spots on the 
underside of both wings. 
Eey to the Indian species of Catapcocilma. 
A. Male, upperside dark violet-blue ; underside, both sexes with rufous bands marked with glittering 
and metallic violet colour. 
967. C. ELEGANS, India, Ceylon, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Nias Island, Borneo. 
B. Male, upperside smoky purplish-black ; underside, both sexes striated throughout with chrome-yellow 
and black, and with scattered silvery-green spots. 
968. C. DELICATUM, Sikkim. 
967. Catapcecilma elegans, Druce. (PLATE XXIX, Fic. 228 9). 
Hypochrysops elegans, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 350, n. 1, pl. xxxil, fig. 12, female; Catape- 
cilma elegans, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 548, n. 1 (1877) ; id., Moore, 
Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 98, pl. xxxix, figs. 3, 3a, male (1881) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 235, n. 1, pl. xxii, fig. 
17, male (1884); id., Staudinger, Ex. Schmett., p. 282, pl. xcvi, female (mec male) (1888) ; Catapacilma 
elegans, Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 368, n. 129, pl. xv, fig. 6, »zale (1886). 
Hasirat : Masuri, Sikkim, Orissa, South India, Ceylon, Assam, Burma, Malay Peninsula, 
Nias Island, Borneo. 
EXPANSE: 6, 11 to1'43 9, roto 1°4 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : ‘MALE. UPPERSIDE, Jo/h wings dark violet-blue, with the costal and 
outer margins somewhat narrowly dark fuscous. éndwing with an inner greyish marginal 
