( iclay ) 
schuppen”’ more or less of the Celastrinid type whilst in 
apollonius it is further provided with another scale peculiar to 
the male sex, viz. one that is of quite unusual length; it is 
Indian club shaped, having a very long and fine stem with 
an elongated finely tapered club, the apical end tapering 
to a point much more rapidly; the term plumule suits this 
elegant scale admirably, it covers very largely all the wing 
below the upper margin of the cell, extending up to vein 7, 
and is especially abundant in the cell and on the fold; it is 
almost white, being just tinged with milky bluish, and is 
probably accountable for much, though not quite all, the 
whiteness of the special areas of the primaries of the male; 
it is very finely ribbed. The “ blasenschuppen”’ proper are 
very closely similar to those obtaining in Lampides elpis, 
scallop-shaped with straight sides and a squarish base, the 
apex being evenly but highly convex, and having ordinarily 
ten rows of prominent reticulations, though I have in one 
or two cases counted as many as twelve on the one side. 
Very many of these scales are bright blue, others are less 
blue and some have no colouring at all; but when viewed 
under transmitted light there is absolutely no colour at all 
visible in some, others are yellowish shading distally into pink, 
or becoming colourless and transparent, others again are 
wholly straw yellow. As might be expected there follows 
some modification of the ordinary wing scales in the parts 
affected. The costal cable is large and composed.of long 
narrowish scales of almost equal width, with apices very 
deeply bifid; mixed with these are many similar scales but 
deeply trifid, underneath which is a layer of broadish oblong 
ones with scalloped apices; all these are brown. In the 
subcostal area similar scales occur with others that are deeply 
trifid and quadrifid in their apices, and are of a deep indigo 
blue tint in part, generally for the apical half; mixed with 
these are some of the brilliant blue scales of the same pattern 
that obtains on the median and other areas covered by the 
plumules; they are longish, rather broad, tapering slightly 
wider to the apex which is highly and evenly rounded, the 
whole surface being finely ribbed; this pattern is constant 
for the blue scales which are sparingly present under the 
