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Lampides coruscans. 



Male. Upperside brilliant glistening cobalt-blue : fore wing 

 with very narrow black speckle-bordered marginal band : 

 liind wing with narrow black marginal line and speckled black 

 spots. Cilia black, with whitish outer edge on fore wing and 

 inner white line on hind wing. Female grejish blue : fore 

 wing with black outer band, which is confined to the apex 

 and outer margin : hind wing with blackish anterior border 

 and submarginal dentate band enclosing marginal row of black 

 spots. Underside pale leaden-grey : fore wing with two 

 narrow white transverse discal lines, a short upper intermediate 

 streak, a short outer line, a double marginal row of white 

 dentate marks with blackish intermeduite space, and marginal 

 line : hind wing with several interrupted narrow white trans- 

 verse lines, a submarginal prominent double dentate line with 

 black intermediate space, and marginal line ; a large subanal 

 ochreous-bordered black spot. 



Exp. ly^^, inch. 



Hah. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood and F. Moore. 



Allied to L. pluto, hut of a less glittering colour and with- 

 out the broad black band in the male. 



Lampides prominens. 



Male. Upperside violet-blue, with very naiTOW indistinct 

 brown marginal line. 



Female paler, the basal part brilliant greyish blue : fore 

 wing with the costal border and outer margin broadly black : 

 hind wing with the costal border broadly black, and a mar- 

 ginal row of black spots enclosed by a lunular line. Under- 

 side pale greyish brown, crossed by five prominent dark- 

 bordered white, slightly waved bands, an intermediate short 

 band at end of the cell, and two marginal blackish- interspaced 

 bands, the inner one sinuous : hind wing crossed by six 

 broken white bands ; two marginal blackish-interspaced sinu- 

 ous bands ; a large subanal and small anal black spot, both 

 silvery-speckled and ochreous-bordered. Allied to L. beroe, 

 Feld. 



Exp. ly^o inch. 



Bab. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood and F. Moore. 



Polyommaius lavendularis. 



Male. Upperside dark lavender-blue, with an extremely 

 narrow black outer marginal border. 

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