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line shifted inwards and enclosing between it and the terminal 

 white line a black spot in interspace 3, a very large similar spot in in- 

 terspace 2 and a smaller but very irregularly shaped spot in inter- 

 spaces 1 a and 1, all three spots bordered inwardly and laterally 

 with ochraceous ; the terminal white line very broad posteriorly 

 at the tornal angle, with a prominent white spot on each side of 

 the tornal spot in interspace 1 ; finally, a slender black anticiliary 

 line as on the fore wing. Antennae black, the shafts ringed with 

 white ; head, thorax and abdomen dark brown, the thorax with 

 purplish-blue hairs ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen 

 dusky white. . Upperside : pale blue without or with only a 

 very faint purple tint. Fore wing : costa, apex very broadly and 

 termen broadly but decreasingly to the dorsum black ; a subterminal 

 nearly obsolete transverse series of bluish-white lunules, very 

 faintly marked towards the apex ; cilia as in the d 1 . Hind wing : 

 the costal broadly, the dorsal margin more narrowly paler than 

 the ground-colour ; terminal markings as in the J but more 

 clearly defined, the black subterminal spots encircled with white, 

 the white edging bounded inwardly by a transverse series of fuscous- 

 black lunules ; cilia and short filamentous tail as in the c? . Under- 

 side : ground-colour and markings very similar to those in the c? 

 but more clearly defined. 



Exp. rf $ 32-38 mm. (1-25-1-49"). 



Hub. The Nicobars ; Kondul. 



This form is probably only a race of the widely distributed 

 L. elpis, Godart. In the pale ground-colour on the upperside and 

 in the neatness and slenderness of the white line markings on the 

 underside however, it looks tolerably distinct from kankena, 

 Felder, which is the variety of L. elpis found in the ISicobars. 



Genus CATOCHRYSOPS. 



Catochrysops, Eoisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. 1832, p. 87 ; Moore, 

 Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 90; de N. Suit. 2nd.. in, 1890, p. 175. 



Type, C. strabo, Fabr., from Java. 



Range. Indo- and Austro-Malayan Eegions. 



c? $ Fore wing : costa arched ; apex moderately acute but not 

 produced ; termen convex ; tornus obtuse ; dorsum straight ; cell 

 about half length of wing ; upper discocellular in line with sub- 

 costal vein, middle and lower vertical ; vein 7 from well before 

 upper apex of cell ; vein 8 absent ; vein 9 from middle of 7 ; vein 

 10 from apical third of subcostal vein ; vein 11 at base well separated 

 from base of 10; veins 11 and 12 touching ; vein 12 bent towards 

 vein 11. Hind wing: elongate, pear-shaped; costa not much 

 arched ; apex rounded ; termen comparatively slightly convex ; 

 tornus well-marked ; dorsum slightly convex ; cell short, not half 

 length of wing ; vein 3 from before lower apex of cell ; vein 7 at 

 base closer to apex of cell than to base. Antennae slender, about 

 half length of fore wing, club gradual; palpi subporrect, third 



