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indistinguishable from L. elpis, Godart (except that it is entirely 

 without submarginal markings on the upperside of the hindwing, these 

 being always present in L. elpis)* in which opinion Mr. W. L. 

 Distant concurs, as in Rhop, Malay., p. 227, he treats the species as 

 a " variety " only of L. elpis. The Ceylon species therefore which 

 Mr. Moore identified and described, but failed to figure, in Lep. 

 Ceylon, as L. pseudelpis, being undoubtedly distinct, requires a name. 

 It is nearest to L. deodus, Felder (= i. pura, Moore), from Assam, 

 Burma, Sumatra, Nias, and the Philippine Isles (colL de Niceville), 

 differing in the male on the upperside in the azure-blue colour 

 being slightly darker, and in both sexes on the underside of 

 the forewing in the arrangement of the discal white strigge, in 

 L. lacteata numbers two and three together form a Y, in L, deodus 

 all four are parallel, the first from the base is long, the second 

 is very short, the third is again long, and the fourth is short, 

 thouah twice as lone' as the second. The inner and middle of the 

 three marginal lines differ also, in L. ladeata they are highly 

 lunulated, in L. deodus they are straight. L. malaccanus, Rober,t 

 from Perak (Malacca) and the Philippines, appears to be an allied 

 species, though more probably it is a synonj'-m of L. celeno, Cramer = 

 L, cdianus, Fabricius, aiidorum^ but is apparently distinct from 

 L. lacteata in having the subanal black spot on the underside of the 

 hindwing very broadly (instead of narrowly) circled with ferruginous , 

 and the marginal lines on the underside of both wings are straighter. 

 L. osiasj Rober,! from the Philippine Islands, is also another 

 apparently closely allied species, but it has the inner of the three 

 marginal lines on the underside of the hindwing much further removed 

 from the margin, and all the discal strigaa of both wings much more 

 attenuated. 



L. lacteata appears to be a rare species. I possess two pairs only 

 from Ceylon. 



* Perhapa l. pseudelpis, Butler, equals L. kondulana, Felder, that species certainly 

 occurring in the Malay Peninsula. 



t Iris, vol. i, p. 57, pi. iv, fig. 3, male (1888). 



X Iris, vol. i, p. 56, pi. v, fig. 17, male {1888), = Lycmna amphyssina, Staudinger, I.e., 

 vol. ii, pp- 100 and 164, pi. i, fig- 4, female (1889). 



