402 LYCVENIDJ5. 



cJ and $ of true elpis ; but on the underside the subterminal 

 pair of lines on both fore and hind wings are as in the type rf 

 and of lacteata. 



754. Lampides subdita, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xxi, 1886, p. 41 ; 

 de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 166. 



<3 . Upperside : very pale purplish or lilac ; the markings of the 

 underside show through by transparency. Fore wing : an anti- 

 ciliary, very slender, fuscous-black line continued along the apical 

 half of the costal margin and also for about the apical third of the 

 dorsal margin. Hind wing : two parallel subterminal transverse 

 fuscous lines in interspace 1 a, single similar lines in interspaces 

 1 and 2 ; in interspace 1 ending in a round black dot anteriorly, in 

 interspace 2 in similar dots anteriorly and posteriorly. Underside : 

 greyish brown of a rather dark shade. Fore wing : crossed by 

 seven transverse delicate white fasciae ; the first from base extends 

 between subcostal vein and vein 1 on the inner side of the disco- 

 cellulars and is interrupted on the median vein ; the second short, 

 just beyond the discocellulars from vein 4 to vein 6 ; the third 

 from just below the costa to vein 1 uninterrupted, almost vertical ; 

 the fourth from just below the costa to vein 4, parallel to vein 3 ; 

 the three beyond these from just below costa to clorsum, the 

 middle one slightly luuular towards the apex in a few specimens ; 

 the two bands of the ground-colour enclosed between the three 

 lines, of a slightly darker shade than the rest. Hind wing: crossed 

 by nine fasciae similar to those on the fore wing ; the first pair 

 from base faintly defined, broken on the subcostal vein ; the second 

 and third pairs extend from costa to dorsum and are more widely 

 separated anteriorly than posteriorly where they are abruptly 

 bent upwards before reaching the dorsum; the fourth or subterminal 

 pair, which are highly lunular, sagittate, enclose between them 

 and between the outer line of the pair and the ninth or terminal 

 white line two series of fuscous-black spots, the spots of the inner 

 series triangular, of the outer series lunate ; these series are 

 interrupted in interspace 2 by a large round deeper black spot 

 crowned inwardly by a broad ochraceous edging, and in interspace 

 1 by a similar but much smaller spot, both these are jet-black 

 touched with metallic bluish-green scaling. Cilia of both fore 

 and hind wings pale greyish brown ; tail black tipped with white. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brownish black, the shafts of 

 the antennae speckled with white, the thorax and base of abdomen 

 bluish ; beneath : palpi and thorax white, abdomen with a medial 

 line of the same colour. $ . Upperside : ground-colour similar to 

 that of the <3 . Fore wing : terminal margin broadly black, the 

 black area commences on the apical third of the costa and gradually 

 narrows to the tornus, its inner margin curved. Hind wing : 

 above the subcostal vein and vein 6 fuscous ; a subterminal series 

 of white black-centred spots edged inwardly by a postdiscal series 

 of lunules and outwardly by an anticiliary black line. Underside : 



