404 



the spot in interspace 2 the largest. Antennae black, shafts 

 speckled with white; head, thorax and abdomen pale brown, 

 thorax and base of abdomen bluish white ; beneath : palpi, thorax 

 and abdomen white. $ . Upperside : ground-colour paler and 

 whiter than in the <S , the markings of the underside in some 

 specimens more clearly apparent through transparency than in 

 the c? Fore wing : a very broad black terminal margin broadest 

 at the apex and apical portion of the costa, of which it occupies 

 about a third, posteriorly it narrows slightly to the tornus. Hind 

 wing : as in the 3 but with a postdiscal transverse lunular line 

 and a subterminal row of spots dusky brown. Underside : much 

 as in the c? but the transverse dark brown bands somewhat 

 straighter. 



Exp. rf $ 33-40 mm. (1-33-1-57"). 



Hob. Assam ; Chittagong hill-tracts ; Burma and Tenasserim. 



The above descriptions are taken from specimens of the wet- 

 season brood, but there is not much seasonal variation at any rate 

 in those from Tenasserim, from which locality only I have dated 

 specimens. In specimens taken in Tavoy, in April, the ground- 

 colour on the underside is a deeper brown but nothing like so 

 dark as it is represented on the hind wing of the $ figured by 

 de Mceville. Some specimens are very like the type of L. con- 

 ferenda, Butler, which form I consider is a pale variety of this 

 insect and not of L. celeno. 



756. Lampides celeno, Cramer (Papilio), Pap. Exot. i, 1775, pi. 31, 



tigs. C, D ; Elwes, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 625. 



Hesperia gelianus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, 1793, p. 280 ; Sutler 

 (Lampides), Cat. Fab. Lep. B. M. 1869, p. 166; Moore (Lampides), 

 Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 94, pi. 38, figs. 3, 3a, 3b, d 1 $ , larva & pupa ; 

 de N. (Lampides) Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 167. 



Race kinkurka. 



Lampides kinkurka, Felder (Lycaena), Verh. zool-bot. Ges. Wien, 

 xii, 1862, p. 481 ; id (Lycaena) Novara Iteise, Lep. ii, 1865, 

 p. 273, pi. 34, figs. 24, 25, 3 ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 171. 



Dry-season brood. $ . Upperside : pale bluish white. Fore 

 wing : terminal margin narrowly edged with black that broadens 

 very slightly towards the apex of the wing ; cilia brownish black. 

 Hind wing : uniform, except for an anticiliary black line edged on 

 the inner side somewhat obscurely by a white line within which 

 and touching it is a row of black spots, the anterior spots very 

 faint, the spot in interspace 2 large and well-defined, two geminate 

 spots in interspace 1 and a very small black lunular dot in interspace 

 la ; cilia brown, white at the base in the interspaces. In specimens 

 obtained in the height of the dry season the black edging to the 

 termen of the fore wing is much reduced and the subterminal 

 series of black spots in the hind wing is altogether obsolete. 

 Underside : greyish brown. Fore wing : with seven transverse 

 white fasciae as follows : two short fasciae one each side of the 



