400 



have taken at Karwar in June is hardly distinguishable from that 

 of Catochrysops pandava, Horsfield ; it is, however, covered with 

 minute hairs and is generally of an olive-green colour and 

 without the reddish suffusion so generally noticed in G. pandava. 

 The pupa is indistinguishable from that of C. pandava. The 

 larva feeds on Xylia dolabrifornis, and also on the flowers of 

 Butea frondosa." 



Race nicobaricus, W.-M. & de N. A slightly differentiated 

 insular race. Differs from the typical form in the tf, by the 

 greater extension on the upperside of the metallic blue colour on 

 the fore wing, the outer margin of which instead of curving 

 round close to the apex of the cell extends well beyond it and 

 almost up to the costal margin anteriorly ; on the hind wing the 

 narrow black margin of the typical form is replaced by a margin 

 that is comparatively broad at the tornal angle, but diminishes in 

 width anteriorly ; along the dorsum it is restricted to the basal 

 half of interspace 1. $ . Upperside: differs from typical bochus $ in 

 the smaller areas of blue on both fore and hind wings, that colour 

 is also generally paler and more purplish. Underside: in both 

 sexes and the antenna, head, thorax and abdomen as in the 

 typical form. 



Exp. rf $ 30-32 mm. (M8-1-27"). 



Hob. The Central Group of the Nicobar Islands ; also Great 

 Nicobar. 



De Niceville gives also the Andamans, but all the specimens I 

 have seen from there have been typical bochus. 



752. Lampides coruscans, Moore, A. M. N. H. (4) xx, 1877, p. 341 ; 

 id. Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 96, pi. 36, figs. 9, 9 a, 9 b, <J $ ; de N. 

 Butt. 2nd. iii, 1890, p. 163. 



cJ . Upperside : cobalt-blue, shining and metallic, with in certain 

 lights a purplish, in others a greenish tint. Fore wing : slightly 

 and very narrowly fuscous at apex, with a very slender terminal 

 black line ; cilia brownish black. Hind wing : a subterminal 

 series of transverse small black spots in the interspaces, in most 

 specimens very slenderly edged paler, in some edged similarly 

 with silvery white; an anticiliary slender black line as on the 

 fore wing; cilia greyish brown, their basal halves white; fila- 

 mentous tail at apex of vein 2 black tipped with white. Underside : 

 pale greyish-brown. Fore and hind wings : transversely crossed 

 by the following slender white fasciaB or lines : Fore wing : the 

 arrangement of the lines almost as in L. bochus, i. e. a discocellular 

 pair, the outer one continued to vein 1, an upper discal pair 

 (more broken than in bochus), the inner one continued to vein 1 ; 

 of the terminal markings the subterminal pair of transverse lines 

 are highly lunular, the inner one sometimes broadly diffuse. 

 Hind wing : markings as in L. bochus but more prominent, the 

 subterminal pair of lines highly lunular ; the subterminal black 



