CATOCHEYSOPS. 415 



G. nicola, Swinhoe, the type of which, a $ , is now in the British 

 Museum has (and I consider quite rightly) been placed in the 

 Museum arrangement by Dr. Butler as a form intermediate 

 between the wet-season and dry-season forms of C. pandava. In 

 describing it Col. Swinhoe says that on the upperside the " Hind 

 wing with five marginal largish black spots surrounded by 

 yellowish." The type-specimen certainly does not agree with 

 this. In point of fact all the markings are only paler and a little 

 more diffuse than in an ordinary wet-season specimen. 



761. Catochrysops cnejus, Fabr. (Hesperia) Ent. Syst. Suppl. 1798, 



p. 430 ; Horsfield (Lycoma), Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. 1829, p. 83 ; 



Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 92 ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, 



p. 178. 

 Lampides contracta, Butler, P. Z. 8. 1880, p. 406, pi. 39, fig. 3 ; 



de N. (Catochrysops) Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 181. 

 Catochrysops ella, Butler, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 606 ; de N. Butt. Ind. 



iii, 1890, p. 180. 

 Catochrysops hapalina, Butler, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 148, pi. 24, figs. 2, 



3, rf $ ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii. 1890, p. 182. 

 Catochrvsops theseus, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 131, pi. 9, fig. 8 <$: 



de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 180. 



c?. Upperside: pale purplish suffused with a bluish shade, 

 apparent only in certain lights. Pore wing: a slender black 

 auticiliary line edged on the inner side narrowly with fuscous dark 

 brown, broader at apex than at the tornal angle. Hind wing : a 

 subterminal black spot in interspace 1 and another similar spot in 

 interspace 2, the two spots subequal in size, edged on the outer side 

 by a white thread and on the inner side with ochraceous, more 

 prominent in the spot in interspace 2; a slender anticiliary black 

 line with an inner narrow margin of diffuse fuscous brown. Cilia 

 of both fore and hind wings pale ; tail at apex of vein 2 of the hind 

 wing black tipped with white. Underside : silver-grey, in some 

 with a pale yellowish, in others with a faint brown tint. Fore and 

 hind wings : each with the following brown spots edged slenderly 

 on either side with white: a transverse elongate spot on the 

 discocellulars ; a transverse discal series of spots straight on the 

 fore, bisinuate on the hind wing, on the latter wing capped 

 near the costa by a prominent white-encircled round black spot ; 

 an inner and an outer subterrainal transverse series of spots, of 

 which the inner subterminal series on the hind wing is lunular, 

 the outer rounded, the white edging to both series being also 

 lunular ; both wings have very slender anticiliary black lines, and 

 the hind wing in addition a transverse curved subbasal series of 

 generally three often four white-encircled spots of which the spot 

 nearest the costa is prominent and black, the others brown. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown, paler on the last, 

 the shafts of the antenna speckled with white, the thorax with a 

 little purplish pubescence ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and 

 abdomen white. $ . Upperside : dark brown. Fore wing r 

 a postero-medial somewhat triangular area from the base outwards 



