298 Colonel Charles Swinhoe on 
Genus LampripEs, Hiibn. 
254. Lampides elpis (Godart), Enc. Méth., ix., p. 654 
(1823). 
255. Lamupides alexis (Stoll), (nec Scopoli), Suppl. Cram. 
Pap. Exot.;y-,'pl.'38; £:°8, 3¢ 3} (1790). ; 
Hesperia adrianus, Fabr., Ent. Syst., itl., 1., p. 280 
(1798). 
Genus Catocurysors, Boisd. 
256. Catochrysops strabo (Fabr.), Ent. Syst., ii1., i., 287, 
101 (1793). 
Common. 
257. Catochrysops lithargyria (Moore), Ann. Mag. N. H. 
(4), xx., p. 840 (1877). 
Shillong. Six males and three females; the peculiar 
shade of blue coloration in both sexes makes it very dis- 
tinct. I have also received it from Palawan, N. Borneo. 
258. Catochrysops cnejus (Fabr.), Ent. Syst., Suppl., 
p. 430 (1798). 
Common. 
259. Catochrysops contracta (Butler), P. Z.8., 1880, p. 
406; pl.-89)f. 13 <a 
Shillong. Two or three examples. This may be, as 
suggested by de Nicéville, a dwarfed form of the pre- 
ceding, but it is always of a more brilliant blue coloration. 
It is curious that the allied form, C. pandava, so widely 
spread throughout the Indo-Malayan Region, has never 
been recorded from the Khasias. 
Genus Tarucus, Moore. 
260. Tarucus plinius (Fabr.), Ent. Syst., ili., 1., 284, 92 
(1793). 
Although I received, I believe, all the Lycenide (ex- 
cept a few rare examples sent to Mr. de Nicéville) that 
Mr. Hamilton’s collectors brought in for a period of 
nearly two years, I received only a few specimens of this 
species, and none of any other species of this genus, 
