LAMPIDES. 407 



757. Lampides elpis, Godart (Polyommatus), Encycl. Meth. ix, 1823, 

 p. 054 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 833 ; id. Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 95, 

 pi. 38, figs. 4, 4 a, $ ; de N. Butt. 2nd. iii, 1890, p. 161 ; Davidson, 

 Bell $ Aitken, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1896, p. 377. 



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

 1862, p. 481 ; id. (Lycama) Novara Reise, Lep. ii, 1865, p. 270, 

 pi. 34, fig. 37 ?; de N. Butt. 2nd. iii, 1890, p. 174. 



Larapide.s pseudelpis, Sutler, Trans. Linn. Soc., Zool. (2) i, 1879, 

 p. 547, pi. 68, tigs. 8, 9, rf $ . 



Wet-season brood. rf . Upperside : azure-blue deepening in tint 

 towards the apex of the fore wing. Pore wing : a narrow black 

 terminal edging widened towards the apex ; cilia brownish black. 

 Hind wing : costal margin broadly, dorsal margin more narrowly 

 paler than the ground-colour ; a subterminal series of black spots 

 edged outwardly with white, the spot in interspace 2 the largest, 

 oval or round, the others smaller, transversely sublinear ; a 

 clearly defined anticiliary black line ; cilia brown with a white 

 line along their bases, often restricted to the posterior half of the 

 wing. Underside : greyish brown. Fore and hind wings : two 

 subtermiual and a terminal white transverse line succeeded by an 

 anticiliary black line on each wing, the ground-colour enclosed 

 between these lines of a slightly darker shade with the appearance 

 of somewhat maculate transverse bands. On the hind wing near 

 apices of interspaces 1 a, 1 and 2 enclosed between the inner of 

 the two subterminal white lines and the terminal white line are a 

 large round black spot inwardly edged with ochraceous in inter- 

 space 2, two minute black geminate spots in interspace 1 and a 

 similar single spot in interspace 1 a, the latter three spots 

 superposed on a white ground and above the white a narrow 

 transverse short ochraceous line. Fore wing : in addition four 

 obliquely placed, transverse, white parallel fasciae as follows : two, 

 one on either side of the discocellulars extended between the sub- 

 costal vein and the dorsum ; two upper discal lines broken and 

 sinuate, extended from just below the costa, the inner line to vein 3, 

 the outer line to vein 4. Hind wing : crossed by five transverse 

 parallel white fasciae besides the terminal markings already men- 

 tioned, these are all more or less interrupted and broken anteriorly 

 and the inner four abruptly curved upwards posteriorly. Antennae, 

 head, thorax and abdomen dark brown, the shafts of the antennas 

 ringed with white, the thorax and abdomen at base with a little 

 blue pubescence ; beneath : palpi, thorax and abdomen white. 

 5 . Upperside : pale blue with a slight purple tinge. Fore wing : 

 costa increasingly to the apex, termen decreasingly to the tornus 

 heavily edged with black ; at the apex of the wing the black 

 occupies about one-fourth of the wing. Hind wing : markings as 

 in the tf but the subtermiual line of black spots much more 

 clearly defined ; the spots larger, edged prominently on both inner 

 and outer sides with white, which on the inner side is margined by a 

 lunular heavy transverse black line. Underside : precisely as in the <5 . 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen similar to those of the tf . 



