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approximate at base : vein 8 absent, 9 from middle of 7, 10 and 11 

 from apical half of subcostal ; vein 11 anastomosed with 12, forming 

 merely an oblique bar between 12 and the subcostal vein. Hind 

 wing : oval ; costa, termeu and dorsuin form a continuous curve, 

 apex and tornal angle not well marked ; cell less than half length of 

 wing, narrow ; middle and lower discocellulars obsolescent ; veins 

 3 and 4 from lower apex of cell ; vein 8 arched at base, extended 

 very close along the costal margin to apex. Antennae a little 

 longer than half length of fore wing, club elongate, gradual but 

 distinct ; palpi subporrect, third joint very long, naked ; eyes 

 naked. 



734. Talicada nyseus (PI. XIX, fig. 140 2 ), Guerin (Polyommatus), 

 Delesserfs Souv. d\m Voy. dans Inde, 1843, p. 78, pi. 22, figs. 1, la; 

 Butler (Scolitantides), P. Z. S. 1881, p. 607 ; Moore. Lep. Ceyl. i, 

 1881, p. 97, pi. 39, figs. 1, la, Ib, d 1 , larva & pupa ;' de N. Butt. 

 Ind. iii, 1890, p. 135, pi. 26, fig. 179 $ ; Davidson, Bell 8? Aitken, 

 Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1896, p. 375, pi. 4, figs. 1, la, larva & 

 pupa. 



S $ Upperside : black or brownish black, in fresh specimens 

 in certain lights with a dull purplish flush. Fore wing : uniform, 

 with a very slender thread-like edging of white to the costa. Hind 

 wing : a large conspicuous orange-red patch on the posterior 

 terminal half of the wing between the dorsum and vein 7 ; 

 this patch does not extend quite to the termen but leaves a 

 narrow edging of the black ground-colour which is produced inwards 

 in short conical projections in interspaces 2 to 5. Cilia of both 

 fore and hind wings chequered with black and \vhite alternately. 

 Underside : silvery white. Fore wing : a quadrate spot on the 

 discocellulars, a broad transverse discal band and the terminal third 

 of the wing jet-black ; the discal band is irregular, dislocated on 

 vein 3, the posterior portion shifted inwards and joined on to the 

 black area on the posterior terminal third of the wing by projections 

 of black on the dorsum, along veins 3 and between veins 4 and 5 

 the black area on terminal third of the wing encloses a transverse 

 postdiscal series of small round and a subterminal transversely 

 linear series of spots of the white ground-colour. Hind wing : 

 two spots near base, a subbasal transverse series of three spots, a 

 medial similar series of four somewhat elongate spots and a 

 transverse short postdiscal bar between veins 4 and 6, jet-black ; 

 terminal third of the wing above vein 7 jet-black, below that vein 

 deep orange-red, the whole area (both the black and the red) 

 medially traversed by a transverse curved series of round spots of 

 the white ground-colour and margined outwardly by a series of 

 transverse, very short and very slender lines of the same in the 

 interspaces ; anticiliary line black. Cilia of both fore and hind 

 wings chequered as on the upperside ; a short filamentous tail at 

 apex of vein 2 black, tipped white. Antenna?, head, thorax and 



