310 LYCjEKIDJE. 



obliquely on the disc. Hind wing: apex and disc irregularly 

 white ; on the posterior half the ground-colour a shade darker 

 than on the anterior half. Underside : ground-colour and markings 

 similar to those of specimens of the wet-season brood, but the 

 markings very much paler and fainter ; in specimens taken in the 

 middle of the dry-season in exceptionally dry localities these mark- 

 ings are altogether absent. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen 

 on the upperside paler than in the wet-season brood. 



Exp. d $ 16-28 mm. (0-61-1-12*). 



Hob. India : Eastern Himalayas ; Bengal : Malda, Calcutta, 

 Orissa ; Southern and South-western India, but not recorded from 

 Bombay; Ceylon; Assam; Burma; Tenasserim; the Andamans ; 

 extending to the Malay Peninsula. 



This form is subject to much seasonal variation. The type in 

 the British Museum is a specimen intermediate between the wet- 

 and the dry-season broods, in which the disc of the fore wing on 

 the upperside is much paler, with a small spot of white in the 

 middle. The Pithecops dharma of Moore has the same spot, larger, 

 but no white on the upperside of the hind wing ; while 1\ gaura, 

 Moore = the dry-season form. 



Genus SPALGIS. 



Lucia, pt., Westivood in Dblday., Westw. 8f Hewitsoris Gen. Di. Lep. 



ii, 1852, p. 501. 

 Spalgis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 137; de N. Butt. 2nd. iii, 1890, p. 54. 



Type, S. epius, Westw., from India. 



Range. The Indo-Malayan Eegion. 



d" $ . Fore wing : costa slightly arched ; apex well-marked, not 

 rounded ; termen convex ; tornus bluntly angulate ; dorsum 

 straight : cell about half length of wing ; vein 3 from before lower 

 apex of cell; 5 from junction of middle and lower discocellulars, 

 these latter subequal ; veins 6 and 7 closely approximate, from 

 upper apex of cell, upper discocellular therefore absent ; vein 8 

 absent ; vein 9 from apex of basal third of 7 ; 10 and 1 1 free, 

 from apical third of subcostal. Hind wing: costa somewhat 

 straight ; apex, termen and tornus roundly arched ; cell about half 

 length of wing ; upper discocellular very oblique, middle and 

 lower vertical ; veins 3 and 4 from lower apex of cell ; 5 from 

 middle of cell : 7 from a little before upper apex of cell. Antennae 

 about half length of fore wing, club long and gradual ; palpi 

 subporrect, third joint short, about one-third the length of the 

 second. Legs short, of the usual Lycaenid form. 



Key to tlie forms of Spalgis. 



a. J $ . Upperside : brown ; fore wing with a 



quadrate white spot beyond cell, small in J , 



larger and somewhat diffuse in $ S. epius, p. 311. 



b. S $ Upperside : dark brown ; fore wiug with- 



out a quadrate white spot beyond cell in <3 , [p. 311. 



typically a slight pale patch in $ S. cjnus, race nubilus, 



