398 



B. Underside fore wing : fourth transverse white 

 fascia from base ends on vein 4. 



a. Upperside fore wing: termen distinctly, in 



some specimens comparatively broadly, 

 edged with black ; interspaces near their 

 apices without fuscous fine striolae. 

 '. Upperside hind wing : generally with a 

 more or less complete transverse sub- 

 terminal series of black spots ; underside 

 fore wing : second transverse white fascia 



from base generally unbroken L. elpis, p, 407. 



b'. Upperside hind wing : always without a 

 transverse subterminal series of black 

 spots, except in interspaces 1 a, 1 and 2 ; 

 underside fore wing : second transverse 

 white fascia from base always interrupted 

 at vein 3 L. elpis, var. 



b. Upperside fore wing : termen with an anti- kankena, p. 408. 



ciliary black line and on its inner side fine, 

 inwardly directed, fuscous striolae in each 

 interspace L. kondidana,^. 409. 



Fig. 87. 



a. L. celeiio, underside fore wing. 



b. L. lacteata, ,, ,, 



c. L. coniscans, 



d. L. elpis, ,, 



751. lampides lochus, Cramer (Papilio), Pap. Krot. iv, 1782, p. 210, 

 pi. 391, figs. C, D: Hiibner (Jamides) Vcrz. bek. Schmett. 1816, 

 p. 71 ; Moore (Jamides), Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 86, pi. 36, figs. 8, 

 8 0, c? $ ; de N. (Jamides) Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 157 ; 

 Davidson, Bell $ Aitken, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1896, 

 p. 377. 



Race nicobaricus. 



Lampides plato, var. nicobaricus, W.-M. $de N.. J. A. S. B. 1881, 



p. 234. 

 Jamides bochus, race nicobaricus, de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 158, 



pi. 27, tig. 186 rf . 



S . Upperside, fore wing : velvety jet-black ; base deep blue, 

 beautifully metallic and shining, measured on the dorsum this 

 colour occupies three-fourths of its length from base, its outer 

 margin then curves upwards just past the apex of the cell, enters 

 into the bases of interspaces 10, 11 and 12 and fills the whole of 

 the cell. Hind wing: costal margin above subcostal vein and vein 

 7, and dorsal margin narrowly fuscous black, a medial longitudinal 

 pale streak on the former ; terminal margin narrowly edged with 



