CUPIDO. 85 



much resembling this in shape and markings, are found in the 

 East Indies. Some of these, such as L. tzlianus, Fabric! is 

 (which some authors treat as the type of Lampides, considering 

 L. bceticus as generically distinct), are of a very pale blue, 

 almost white. 



GENUS CUPIDO. 



CupidO) Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. (i) pp. 153, 209 (1801). 

 Everes, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 69 (1815); Moore, 

 Lepid. Ceylon, i. p. 85 (1881). 



The type of this genus is a small blue Butterfly, with a 

 slender tail on the hind-wings, and spotted, not streaked, on the 

 under surface. The only species which Schrank described at 

 unusual length under Cupido was C. puer, which subsequently 

 proved to include two species, C. argiades and C. alsus, placed 

 together as male and female. The large space given to C puer, 

 in conjunction with the name, is sufficient to establish the 

 male (C. argiades) as the indubitable type of Cupido. 



THE SMALL TAILED BLUE. CUPIDO ARGIADES. 

 (Plate XLV. Figs. 4-6.) 



Papilio argiades, Pallas, Reise, i. p. 172, no. 66 (1771). 

 Papilio tiresias, Von Rottemburg, Naturforscher, vi. p. 23, 



no. 10 (1775); Esper, Schmett, i. (r) p. 337, pi. 34, figs. 



i, 2 (1777) 

 Cupido puer, $. Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. (i) p. 215, no. 1374 



(1801). 

 Var. Papilio polysperchon, Bergstrasser, Nomenclator, ii. pi. 44, 



fig 5 - 3~5 ('779); Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. i. (2) p. 61 



(1808), 

 Papilio tiresias, var. Esper, /. c. i. (i) p. 384, pi. 49, fig. 2 



(1777); Hiibner, /. c. figs. 319-321 (1803?) 



