LYC^NESTHES. TALICADA. 375 



Pupa. " 0-4 of an inch in length, of the usual Lycaenid shape, 

 the tail pointed, the thorax slightly humped arid ending in a some- 

 what sharp ridge line on the back ; it is coloured pale ochraceous 

 and bears a prominent diamond-shaped mark posteriorly. It is 

 smooth throughout, reddish brown sprinkled with minute darker 

 dots." (de 



733. Lycaenesthes lycaenina, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xviii, 



1868, p. 281 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 87, pi. 35, figs. 8, 8a, 

 c? ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 130, pi. 26, fiV. 178 rf ; Davidson, 

 Bell 4- .4iWfc, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1896, p. 374. 



Lvcsenesthes lycambes, Hewitson, III. Di. Lep. 1862-1878, p. 220, 

 pi. 90, figs. 11, 12, rf. 



Lycronesthes orissica, Moore, J. A. S. B. 1884, p. 23. 



Closely resembles L. emolus, Godt. In both sexes however, but 

 especially in the d , the fore wing is distinctly narrower and more 

 acute at apex and the hind wing more acutely angulated at the 

 tornus. In markings on the upperside the two forms are closely 

 alike ; on the underside they differ as follows : $ $ . Ground- 

 colour similar but a shade darker. Fore wing : the transverse 

 discal band dislocated below vein 3 and shifted inwards so that the 

 short band on the discocellulars and the anterior portion of the 

 discal band form the two branches, the lower portion of the discal 

 band the stem, of a rough Y-shaped figure. Hind wing : a large 

 black or dark brown white-encircled spot touching vein 7 near its 

 base (in L. emolus there is never any trace of such spot). The 

 discal and terminal transverse bands with their pale or white 

 edgings much more broken, irregular and confused. Antenna?, 

 head, thorax and abdomen as in the c? $ of emolus, but on the 

 underside the palpi, thorax and abdomen whiter with a slight 

 bluish tint. 



Exp. cJ $ 28-32 mm. (1-1 0-1-26"). 



Hab. Sikhim ; Bengal ; Orissa ; Western and Southern India ; 

 Ceylon ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; extending to Siam ; the 

 Malay Peninsula ; Borneo. 



Genus TALICADA. 



Talicada, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 96 ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 

 1890, p. 134. 



Type, T. iiyseus, Guerin, from India. 



Bange. Western and Southern India ; Ceylon ; Assam ; Upper 

 Burma. 



<5 $ . Fore wing : costa widely arched, more strongly just at 

 base ; apex rounded ; termen convex ; tornus obtuse ; dorsum 

 slightly sinuate ; cell long and narrow, slightly over half length of 

 wing; middle and lower discocellulars attenuated, subequal; veins 

 3 and 7 almost from lower and upper apices of cell respectively ; 

 veins 3 and 4 and veins 6 and 7 respectively very closely 



