324 LYC'jENID.B. 



and abdomen white. $ . Upperside : white, the bases of the 

 wings and in some specimens the hind wing posteriorly shot with 

 iridescent blue. Fore \ving : costa, apex and termen broadly black : 

 the discocellulars marked with a very short, fine black line that 

 extends down from the black on the costal margin. Hind wing : 

 costa and apex broadly black ; termen below vein 6 with a regular 

 subterminal series of black spots in the interspaces, enclosed within 

 an inner lunular and an outer straight slender anticiliary black 

 line ; the veins, except vein 5 in the middle, slenderly black. Cilia 

 of both fore and hind wings white. Underside : ground-colour and 

 markings similar to those of the tf . Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen as in the c? . 



Dry-season brood. J $ . Differs very slightly from the wet- 

 season brood. In the c? there is a small patch of white on the 

 upperside of the fore wing beyond the cell and on the upperside 

 of the hind wing on the anterior portion of the disc ; the extent 

 of this patch varies on the fore wing from a mere touch of white 

 just beyond the cell to a large discal area of white which is diffuse 

 with ill-defined margins. In the $ the blue iridescence at the 

 base of the wings on the npperside is in some specunens consider- 

 ably restricted, in others entirely absent. On the underside in 

 both sexes the ground-colour is paler and in form and position 

 the markings are much less prominent, though entirely like those 

 of the wet-season brood. 



Kvp. J $ 32-35 mm. (1-28-1-36"). 



Hob. Peninsular India, except in the desert tracts ; Ceylon ; 

 Assam ; Burma ; the Andamans ; extending into the Malayan 

 Subregion as far as Java. 



"Var. lavendularis, Moore, has the costal and terminal margins 

 of both fore and hind wings more narrowly bordered with black 

 than in typical puspa, but seems otherwise indistinguishable. 



692. Cyaniris lilacea, Hampson, Proc. NiU/iri N. H. Soc. 1887, p. 14. 

 Cyaniris puspa, vur. lilacea, Hampson, J. A. S. B. 1888, p. 356. 

 Cyaniris crissa, de N., J. A. S. B. 1894, p. 31, pi. 2, fig. 12. 



<5 . Upperside : shining purplish-black. Fore wing : costa nar- 

 rowly and evenly for three-fourths of its length from base, apex 

 broadly and terminal margin decreasing! y jet-black ; cilia black. 

 Hind wing : costa and apex broadly, termen narrowly, bordered 

 with black ; a subterminal series of small round black spots that 

 merge anteriorly into the black at apex ; cilia black, tipped with 

 white. Underside : opaque chalk-white. Fore wing : the fol- 

 lowing black markings : a broad short bar on the discocellulars ; 

 a discal transverse series of prominent spots in interspaces 1 to 6 r 

 the spot iii interspace 1 elongate, in 2 and 3 oval and placed 

 obliquely on the wing, in 4 elongate and pointing obliquely out- 

 wards, in 5 and 6 rounded, the spot in interspace 6 shifted a little 

 inwards ; beyond these discal markings is a transverse series of 

 slender black lunules, followed by a subterminal series of minute 



