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B. — Underside of hind wing: no contiunous line 

 borderiog the terminal row of spots. Size: 0*8" 

 to 1'2" . . . . . . . . , , . . ananda. 



The two first species are found everywhere, in the Plains and in the hills, 

 in the jungles and in the dry, waste places of India, being rarer, however, 

 in the jungle tracts. Ananda is a hill species, plentiful in Kanara. The 

 males of the first species are pale purple to violet-blue on the upperside ; 

 of the second dark violet ; ananda is deep-purple with the spots showing 

 through from the underside ; the females of the first two are blackish-brown 

 with white discal markings, both wings shot with blue towards the base, 

 to a greater extent in theophrastus, than in the other ; female ananda is 

 suffused over the whitish disc with brown and is also shot with blue towards 

 base. 



The larvse and pupee are quite normal and are greedily attended by ants, 

 generally of the genus Oremastogaster; so much are these insects necessary 

 to the comfort of theophrastus and ananda, indeed, that the genus of the 

 foodplant seems to be of little importance as long as the ants are there. 

 Plinius has been bred on flowers of Albizzia and Sesbania ; the other two on 

 Rhamnacee [Zizyphus) and other plants, such as Mistletoe, Jasmine, &c. 



15. Genus — Castalius. 



A. — Hind wing, underside : outer margin with 

 a lunulate black line and no regular row of 

 black spots inside it. Size: I'l" to 1'35" .. decidia. {Fl. G, figs. 



47 d,47« $.) 

 B. — Hind wing, underside : outer margin with no 



lunulate black line but a regular row of black 

 spots instead of it. 



a. Hind wing, underside : with a single row of 

 black spots inside the marginal one. Size : 



1-1" to 1-25" .. .. :. .. .. ethion. 



b. Hind wing, underside : with three rows of 

 black spots inside marginal row. Size : 1"1" 



to 1-36" . . . . . . . . , . rosimon. {PL G, Jiffs. 



46 c? , 46a $ .) 



These butterflies are really not separable from Tarucus. All but rosimon 

 are hill insects, decidia being, however, found sparingly in the Plains. 

 The males are like the females in colouration as a rule ; ethion male diff'er- 

 ing from its female by having a blue edging to the broad black border, 

 differing also from botlx sexes of decidia in this. Both species differ from 

 rosimon by the broader, more even-edged black border to wings and by not 

 being shot with blue at the base. 



The larvspi of all are normal ; so are the pup^e ; they are all attended by 

 ants. The foodplants of the species is generally some species of Zizyphus 

 of the family Rhamnacece. 



16. Genus — Lampides. 



Only one species. Size : 1-25" to 1-40" .. .. bceticus. {PL G, figs. 



48 c? , 48« $ .) 



A widely distributed insect, found throughout the Old "World. Male : 

 violet-blue above with a minutely frosted appearance ; female upperside, 

 brown with, sometimes, bluish sprinkling towards bases of wings. Under- 

 side pale greyish or brownish ochreous with bands. 



- Larva and pupa normal. Foodplant : Leguminosem of many kinds ; the 

 flowers being eaten. Larva is attended by ants. 



