416 LYC-SNLDJE. 



for about two-thirds the length of the wing blue and a slender jet- 

 black anticiliary line. Hind wing : posteriorly from about the 

 level of the middle of the cell slightly suffused with blue from base 

 outwards for about two-thirds the length of the wing ; a transverse, 

 postdiscal, incomplete series of sagittate white spots pointing 

 inwards, followed by a subterininal transverse series of round spots, 

 the anterior three dark brown encircled with bluish white, the 

 tornal two jet-black, subequal, larger than the others, edged 

 inwardly with bright ochraceous, outwardly by very slender white 

 lines ; finally, a jet-black slender anticiliary line. Cilia of both 

 fore and hind wings conspicuously white. Underside : ground- 

 colour and markings as in the <5 , the tornal two black spots touched 

 outwardly with metallic bluish-green scaling. Antennae, head, 

 thorax and abdomen similar to those of the $ , the shafts of the 

 antennae conspicuously ringed with white. 

 Exp. d $ 26-33 mm. (1-03-1-33"). 



Hob. Throughout our limits except at very high elevations. 

 Widely distributed in the Malayan Subregion ; extending to 

 Australia and the South Sea Islands. 



Larva. " Of the usual Lycaenid shape .... the head small, black, 

 shining, retractile. Colour of body pale green with darker green or 

 reddish dorsal and subdorsal lines, the latter coalesced into a broad 

 band between the eleventh and last segments. The entire surface 

 of the body covered with minute white tubercles, there are also a 

 few scattered white hairs. The segmental constrictions shallow. 

 Spiracles black. Extensile organs on the twelfth segment small. 

 The larva is broader than high in its higher part, increasing in 

 -width to fourth segment, from thence to the flattened anal segment 

 of about uniform width. Bred by me in Calcutta on Phaseolus tri- 

 lobus,Lmn. Mr. W. C. Taylor reports that the larva feeds in 

 Orissa on Dolidios catjang, Eoxb. Dr. A. Forel identifies the 

 ant in Calcutta as Camponotus rubripes (= sylvaticus, Fabr.), 

 subspecies compressus, Fabr." (de Niceville.) 



Pupa. "Very pale green, the abdominal segments somewhat 

 opaque ; of the usual Lycaeuid shape, no distinctive structure or 

 markings. Head-case square, thorax slightly humped, slightly 

 constricted before the first abdominal segment, a dark dorsal line 

 extending the whole length ; spiracles black; entire surface smooth 

 not hairy." (de Niceville.) 



After examination of the types and of the series of specimens 

 in the British Museum of the following, I agree with de Niceville 

 that they are all either climatic or local unstable varieties of 

 <}. cnejus. One of these, C. theseus, Swinhoe, is clearly an aberration. 

 Vars. ella and contracta, Butler, are dwarfed forms with pale 

 markings and ground-colour on the underside. Var. Tiapalina, 

 Butler, differs chiefly from the typical form in the transverse 

 macular discal band on the underside of the fore wing, the spots 

 composing which are placed obliquely to one another, not end to 

 end as in typical cnejus. C. theseus, Swinhoe, is, as mentioned 

 above, an aberration, the bands on the underside are not macular 

 but continuous and somewhat strongly marked. 



