378 



Ke >/ to tlte forms of E 



A. Upperside : ground-colour purplish-blue or blue, 



rarely iu $ brown ........................ E. <iryiades, p. 378. 



B. Upperside : ground-colour fuscous black. 



a. Underside : transverse discal band on both 



fore and hind wings macular, spots not con- 



tinuous or touching .................... E. kala, p. 380. 



b. Underside : transverse discal band on both 



fore and hind wings macular but continuous 



though interrupted in the middle ........ E. potanini, p. 379. 



735. Everes argiades (PI. XIX. figs. 141, 142, 3 $ \Pallas (Papilio), 

 Iteise, i, 1771, App. p. 472; Elwes (Lycreua), P. Z. K. 1881, 

 p. 887 ; Lanq (Lycaena), Butt. Eur. 1884, p. 101, pi. 22, fig. 5, 

 rf 2 ; de JV. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 137, pi. 26, fig. 180 <J. 



Hesperia parrhasius, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, 1793, p. 289 ; Moore 

 (Lycsena), Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. \, 1857, p. 22, pi. 1 a, fig. 3, 

 3 id. (Everes) Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 85, pi. 36, fig. 7. 



Lycrena dipora, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 506, pi. 31, fig. 8 <$ ; 

 Doherty (Everes), J. A. S. B. 1886, p. 132. 



A very variable form especially in the colouring on the upper- 

 side in the 5 . 3 . Upperside : violet of lighter or darker shade. 

 Fore wing : a terminal edging of brown of varving width and an 

 obscure anti ciliary black line ; costa gener- 

 ally with a very narrow line of brown ; 

 cilia brown at base, white outwardly. 

 Hind wing : costal margin more or less 

 broadly brown, this brown edging con- 

 tinued in some specimens down the termen 

 to the tornal angle, in others only for a 

 Fig. 84. short distance or not at all ; subterminal 



Everes argiades. black spots in the posterior three or four 



interspaces, the one in interspace 2 largest, 



the two in interspace 1 minute, sometimes geminate; generally 

 the spots are outwardly edged very narrowly with white ; finally, 

 an anticiliary slender black line much more prominent than on 

 the fore wing ; tail black tipped with white. Underside : white 

 to brownish grey, the markings sometimes prominent, very often 

 pale and faint, those constituting the discal bands on both fore and 

 hind wings round and black, or transverse, linear and pale brownish. 

 Tore wing : a short transverse line on the discocellulars ; a trans- 

 verse discal row of spots followed by an inner and an outer sub- 

 terminal maculate band which may be slender and well marked or 

 with the inner band broad and each spot composing it diffuse ; finally, 

 an anticiliary very slender black line Hind wing : a transverse 

 subbasal series of two sometimes three black spots ; a slender short 

 brownish line on the discocellulars ; a transverse, discal, bisinuate 

 series of black spots followed by a somewhat obscure postdiscal 

 transverse series of black or pale brownish lunules, a subterminal 

 series of black spots and a slender auticiliary black line ; the sub- 



