CHILADES. 365 



Very closely allied to Lycmia, from which the two forms that 

 are placed under it are kept separate, more for convenience and 

 because of the character of the wing-markings on the underside 

 and the peculiar range of the forms, than for the slight structural 

 difference which is noted below. 



<$ $ . Venation of the wings and structure of the antennae, 

 palpi and legs as in Lyccena, with the exception that in the hind 

 wing veins 3 and 4 are emitted typically from the lower apex of 

 the cell, and not vein 3 from a little before, 4 from the apex of the 

 cell as in Li/ccena. 



Key to the forms of Chilades. 



a. Upperside : tf purplish blue ; $ brown, with 



more or less of blue suffusion at base of wings. 

 Underside hind wing: <$ without an ochreous 

 patch at tornal area, or ocelli sprinkled with 

 metallic-green scales C. lams, p. 060. 



b. Upperside : J brown, not suffused with blue. 



Underside hind wing : rf with a more or 

 less well-marked ochraceous patch at tornal 

 area, and three black ocelli sprinkled outwardly 

 with metallic-green scales C. frochilus, p. 367. 



728. Chilades laius (PL XIX, fig. 135), Cramer (Papilio), Pap. Exot. 



iv, 1780, p. 62, pi. 319, tigs. D, E ; Moore (Polyommatus), Cat. 



Lep. Mus. E. 1. C. i, 1857, p. 21, pi. 12, figs. 1, 1 a, larva & pupa; 



de N. Butt. 2nd. iii, 1890, p. 89, pi. 26, tigs. 168, 169, J . 

 Chilades varunana, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 77, pi. 35, fig. 3<3 . 

 Polyommatus kandura, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 772, pi. 41, fig. 7 $ ; 



Swinhoe (Zizera), Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 341. 



Wet-season brood. rf . Upperside : bluish purple. Fore wing : 

 base and basal half of costa flushed with pale blue ; costa and 

 termen edged by a slender dark brownish-black even line, beyond 

 which along the termen the cilia are brown at base, white 

 outwardly. Hind wing: costa somewhat broadly dusky black; 

 a slender black conspicuous anticiliary line, beyond which the 

 cilia are white traversed medially by a brown line ; dorsum 

 broadly pale brown, two subterminal pale-bordered black spots in 

 interspace 1, and one similar spot in interspace 2, often ob- 

 solescent and barely indicated. Underside : grey. Fore wing : 

 a transverse broad lunule on the discocellulars and a transverse 

 discal series of six spots dark brown, the lunule and each of the 

 discal spots edged with white ; the posterior four spots of 

 the discal series elongate and each obliquely placed, the anterior 

 two round and curved inwards ; a subterminal series of trans- 

 verse elongate spots with an inner series of lunules dusky brown, 

 both series edged inwardly and outwardly with white ; finally, 

 an anticiliary slender black line. Cilia white, medially traversed 

 by a dark brown line. Hind wing : the following jet-black spots 

 slenderly encircled with white : a transverse subbasal series of 



