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760. Catochrysops pandava, Horsfield (Lycsena), Cat. Lep. Mus. 

 E. 2. C. 1829, p. 84 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 92, pi. 37, 

 figs. 1,1 a, Ib, rf $ , larva & pupa ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, 

 p. 183, pi. 27, fig. 187, 2 wet-season form. 



Catochrysops nicola, Sicinhoe, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 132 ; de N. Butt. 

 Ind. iii, 1890, p. 185. 



Wet-season brood. c? Upperside : lavender-blue. Fore wing : 

 costa narrowly, terminal margin more broadly fuscous brown, the 

 latter with in addition an antieiliary black line ; cilia light brown 

 transversely traversed close to but not at their bases by a dark 

 brown line. Hind wing: costa narrowly fuscous brown; a sub- 

 terminal series of black spots outwardly edged by a white line ; 

 the spot in interspace 2 the largest and inwardly crowned more or 

 less broadly with ochraceous yellow; an antieiliary black line 

 and the cilia as on the fore wing. Underside : greyish brown. 

 Fore and hind wings : the following transverse darker brown 

 markings on each wing, the markings edged on the inner and 

 outer sides with white lines a short bar across the discocellulars, 

 a discal catenulated band, the posterior two elongate spots of 

 which on the fore wing are en echelon, while the band on the hind 

 wing is bisinuate and is capped anteriorly near the costa by a 

 round black spot encircled with white ; the above are followed by 

 maculated inner and outer subterminal bands, which on the hind 

 wing are curved and more or less interrupted on the tornal area 

 by a comparatively large round black spot in interspace 2 and a 

 smaller similar spot in interspace 1, both spots inwardly crowned 

 with ochraceous ; the white edgings on the inner side to both sub- 

 terminal bands on the hind wing are more or less lunular. In 

 addition on the same wing there is a subbasal curved row of 

 four white-encircled spots, of which the anterior two and the spot 

 on the dorsum are black, the other dark brown. Antennae 

 black, shafts ringed with white ; head, thorax and abdomen brown, 

 the head and thorax clothed with bluish hairs ; beneath : palpi, 

 thorax and abdomen whitish. $ . Upperside : brown. Fore wing : 

 shot with blue from base outwards for a little over half its length 

 down its middle, this blue irroration not extended to the costal 

 margin ; a slender antieiliary black line. Hind wing : a touch of 

 blue iridescence near base ; terminal markings much as on the fore 

 wing but the subterminal spots larger and not extended beyond 

 interspace 6 ; in addition postdiscally there is a lightening of the 

 shade of the ground-colour, between which paler area and the 

 subterminal spots the ground-colour assumes the form of a post- 

 discal, short, transverse lunular band. Underside as in the <5 , the 

 markings slightly larger and more clearly denned. Antennas, head, 

 thorax and abdomen as in the S but slightly paler. 



Dry-season brood. c? ? . Very similar to the same sexes of the 

 wet-season brood, but can be recognized by the following 

 differences : Upperside : tf Ground-colour slightly duller ; sub- 

 terminal spots on the hind wing less clearly defined. $ . The blue 

 shot area extended outwards on the fore wing for three-fourths of 



