422 LYCANIDZE. CATAPG:CI MA. 
line from beneath the subcostal nervules, and with three transverse greyish submarginal 
streaks near the anal angle divided by the median nervules, Zwd/s fuscous, with their apices 
greyish-white. Cilia of both wings greyish. UNDERSIDE, doth wings greyish-brown. Fore- 
wing with three rufous spots margined with black and silvery crossing the cell; a series of 
silvery spots in the subcostal area, two beyond the cell divided by the lower discoidal nervule, 
two or three beneath the cell (both of these followed by ochraceous and black), an outer and 
irregular discal series of five spots crossing the wing, and a submarginal series in which the 
silvery hue is somewhat less intense ; between the discal and submarginal series of spots 
are some dark fuscous markings. Azndwing with the following rufous spots, margined with 
black and silvery:—two beneath the costal nervure, one (round) about the middle of the 
cell, and one (transverse) at the end of the cell ; two beneath the cell and situated between the 
submedian nervure and the first median nervule, and one (transverse) about the middle of the 
abdominal margin ; on about the basal third of the costal margin are some rufous, black, and 
silvery markings ; two discal series of silvery spots margined with black across the wing, between 
and beyond which are some black spots on a rufous ground-colour, a submarginal series of 
pale silvery spots placed between the nervules, that between the second and first median ner 
vules replaced by a black spot margined with rufous, and the silvery spots at the anal 
angle margined with black ; ¢az/s pale fuscous with their apices greyish-white. Cz/éa of 
both wings silvery grey. Body above and beneath more or less concolorous with the wings. 
FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings pale violet-blue, with the costal and outer margins broadly 
dark fuscous. Azudwing with three pale transverse spots near the anal angle, divided by the 
second and first median nervules, and the inner margin also narrowly silvery at this area. 
UNDERSIDE, Jot wings with the ground-colour much paler than in the male, but with the 
markings similar.” (Distant, 1. c.) 
This species was first described as below® from Borneo. It occurs also at Penang, Perak, 
Malacca, johore and Sungei Ujong in the Malay Peninsula. Mr. Wood-Mason obtained it in 
Cachar in May and June ; it occurs commonly in Sikkim in March, April and October, the 
males much more often seen than the females ; Mr. P. W. Mackinnon has sent me a single female 
taken at Masuri, 3,000 feet, in April; Mr. W. C. Taylor has obtained it in Orissa ; Mr. E. H 
Aitken records it from Bassein, Tanna District, Bombay, in Marchand April; Mr. G. F. Hamp- 
son has found it fairly common on the lower slopes of the Nilgiris from 2,000 to 4,000 feet ; there 
isa single specimen from Cannanore in South India in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; Mr. A. W. 
Morris reports that C. elegans occurs commonly in the Shevaroy Hills in May and August, and 
may be taken on the leaves of the orange trees during the heat of the day, and that it hasa 
curious habit of returning to the same twig from which it has been disturbed ; it occurs at 
Kandy in Ceylon, ‘*common” (Wade); and Mr. W. Doherty obtained it at Mergui and 
Myitta in Upper Tenasserim. 
The figure shews both sides of a female example in my collection from the Shevaroy 
Hills in South India. 
968. Catapoollma delicatum, de N. 
C. delicatum, de Nicéville, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1887, p. 455 ; Catapacilma bubases, de Nicéville (nec 
Hewitson), Journ. A. S. B., vol. liv, pt. 2, p. 118, pl. ii, figs. 11, ale ; 1, female (1885), 
Hapsitat : Sikkim. 
EXPANSE: 6,2, 1'25 inches. 
* Femate. “ Uppersitpe, doth wings greyish-blue. Forewing with the costal margin dark brown. 
Unpersipe, doth wings pale brown. Forewing crossed beyond the cell by a rufous band, with a row of small 
black spots in the middle, and numerous metallic dots from the base to the costal margin. Hindwing with two 
rufous bands, the first, with a row of black spots, below the middle, the second near the outer margin, witha 
metallic streak crossing both the rufous bands ; several metallic spots close to the base,’’ (Deuce, 1. c.) : 
Druce’s ‘‘figure, which is extremely rough, represents the species with three to four tails to the hindwing $ 
but either the fourth [uppermost] has been broken off in all the examples which I have examined, or does not 
really exist.” (Butler, |. c.) 
