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spot in interspace 2 larger. Antennae black, the shafts more 

 obscurely speckled with white than in boclius ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen brown, thorax and abdomen above bluish ; beneath : 

 palpi, thorax and abdomen white. $ . Upperside : very similar 

 to that of L. bochus $ , but in the fore wing the blue colour 

 extends right up to the costa in its basal half, the outer margin 

 of the blue area starting from the dorsum at three-fourths of its 

 length from the base, runs parallel to the termen up to vein 3, 

 thence obliquely inwards to the middle of the costa. Hind wing : 

 similar to the hind wing of L. bochus, but the blue tint paler. 

 Underside : ground-colour more brownish ; markings on both fore 

 and hind wings precisely similar to those of the <5 . 



Exp. <j $ 30-37 mm. (1-18-1-44"). 



Hob. Ceylon. 



753. Lampides lacteata, de N. Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1895, p. 36, 



pi. S, tigs. 25, 26, J $ . 



Lampides pseudelpis, Moore (nee Butler), Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 95 ; 

 de N. (nee Butler) Butt. 2nd. iii, 1890, p. 165. 



J $ . Closely resembles L. elpis, Godart, of which form I think 

 it may be an occasional variation. I have only seen the type pair 

 and a pair in my own collection, the $ from Nalanda and the $ 

 from Kandy, collected by Mr. E. E. Green and kindly sent to me. 

 Mr. de j^iceville in describing the form also said : " L. lacteata seems 

 to be a rare species. I possess two pairs only from Ceylon." 



tf . Upperside : a uniform pale purplish blue slightly paler 

 than in L. elpis. Fore and hind wings : very slender black anti- 

 ciliary lines. Tore wing: narrowly fuscous at apex ; hind wing : 

 a very slender terminal white thread before the auticiliary black 

 line and a small black subterminal spot in interspace 1 edged 

 inwardly with white, above which is a very obscure, short, trans- 

 verse fuscous line. Cilia of both wings brown, with on the hind 

 wing a white line at the base ; tail black tipped with white. 

 Underside : pale uniform greyish brown ; discal and inner markings 

 on both fore and hind wings almost identical with those of true 

 elpis, and precisely similar to those in many varieties from Sikhim 

 and Assam, of that form. Terminal markings on both wings 

 differ only in the two transverse subterminal white lines ivhich 

 are lunular and not straight. On the hind wing these lines are 

 not however, nearly so prominently made up of lunules as in 

 L. subdita, the form next described. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen as in L. elpis. $ . Still more closely resembles the 

 same sex of elpis, but the ground-colour on the upperside is nearly 

 white suffused with purplish blue towards the base of the wings 

 and the black area on the apex and terminal margin is very broad. 

 On the underside the markings are as in its own <J . 



Exp. <$ $ 34-39 mm. (1-36-1-55"). 



Hab. Ceylon. 



In the pair sent me by Mr. Green and mentioned above, the 

 tint of blue on the upperside is precisely the same as that in the 



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