CASTALIUS. 431 



Andamans. Dated specimens from Sikhim and Shillong in 

 Assam, taken in February and April respectively, have the median 

 white band that crosses the wings on the upperside extraordinarily 

 broad, while on the underside the terminal markings on the fore 

 and the discal and terminal markings on the hind wing are rusty 

 brown and much blurred. 



771. Castalius manluena, Felder (Lycaena), Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 

 xii, 1862, p. 484; Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 537 ; Doherty, J. A. 

 S. B. 1889, p. 134, pi. 10, fig. 8 rf ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, 

 p. 200. 



" Female. Wings very shortly tailed, fuscous brown on both 

 sides ; a common, discal, sinuate fascia and marginal spots white. 

 Underside with a white vitta at the base of the costa of the fore 

 wing and a common external white fascia inwardly sinuate, 

 outwardly undulate. 



" A female much smaller than L. (= C.) roxus, Godart, which 

 appears to be the nearest allied species. The white spots on the 

 margin arranged in rows on the upperside and the absence of the 

 short w'hite band at the base of the costa on the underside of 

 the hind wing, are the only satisfactory distinguishing features of 

 the new species." (Felder, I. c.) 



" Male. Upperside, both wings black, with a broad white 

 discal baud, extending on the fore wing from the hind margin to 

 above the lower discoidal nervule, just entering the cell, at the 

 end of which it is strongly indented from above ; prolonged out- 

 wardly between the second and third median nervules ; on the 

 hind wing it is broad, strongly produced outwardly, acutely 

 indented inwardly. Hind iving : a slender marginal white line, 

 broken at the veins ; tips of tail white. Underside. Fore iving : 

 ground-colour white, base dark with a longitudinal line close 

 to the costa; a black mass extending obliquely from the base of 

 the hind (inner) margin to the middle of the costa where it joins 

 a broad black subapical area, which extends thence to the second 

 median nervule, thence it is connected (slightly) with the broad 

 submarginal dark band and with an outer discal dark area lying 

 between the 2nd median nervule (vein 4) and the hind margin. 

 Bind wing : with a basal black mass embouched with white and a 

 discal band, irregular but unbroken, crossing the wing, and a 

 submarginal line of wide, joined black lunules uniting at the apex 

 with the discal baud. Allied to C. roxus, Godt." (Doherty.) 



" Exp. $ 1-05 inches. 



" Hab. Nicobars : Kondul ; Ikuya, Little Nicobar." (Doherty.) 



