2 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



CATAPfflCILMA ELEGANS. 



Plate 706, figs. 1, (J, la, 9 > lb, (J, Ic, larva and pupa. 



Hypochrysops elegans, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 350, pi. 32, fig. 12, 9 • 



Caiapoecihaa elegans, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 548. Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 98, 

 pi. 39, figs. 3, 3a, i (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 235, pi. 22, fig. 17, $ (1884), 

 Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 282, pi. 96, ? (nee ^), (1888). Wood-Mason and de Niceville, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 368, pi. 15, fig. 6, $ . Hampson, id. 1888, p. 358. de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, iii. p. 421, pi. 29, fig. 228, ? (1890) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 386. 

 Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 641. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 305. H. H. Druce, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 612. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, 

 p. 389, pi. 5, figs. 8, 8a, larva and pupa. Watson, id. 1897, p. 667. Mackinnon and 

 de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 388. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 49. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violet-blue. Forewing with a black costal line 

 and narrow black costal band, with a series of black lunular spots on the outer margin, 

 anal spot black, the black spots in the next two interspaces prominent, the anal spot 

 and the next one edged on both sides with glistening silvery scales, the other with pale 

 bluish-white. Cilia of both wings white with black spots at all the vein ends. 

 Underside pale greyish-chocolate, markings darker, chocolate-brown, ornamented with 

 brilliant metallic scales, which are blue-green in some lights, silvery-white in others. 

 Forewing with several sub-basal spots, a medial transverse band, commencing in a 

 curved double form of irregular spots more or less conjoined, which end on the median 

 vein outside the cell with a thick streak below the middle of their ends, the streak 

 narrowing hindwards to a point in the pale hinder marginal space. A sub-marginal broken 

 band, commencing singly from the costa in a similar form, with a thick streak below it, 

 like the middle streak and parallel with it ; a series of sub-marginal ringed spots. Hind- 

 wing with the inner portion suffused with dark chocolate-brown, a number of larger 

 sub-basal spots, two -bars closing the cell, followed closely by three lines of lunular 

 marks and two below the cell bars, a series of small sub-marginal spots, a black anal 

 spot and another in the first interspace. All these markings very difficult to describe. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white, the club with an orange tip ; head and body above 

 and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside pale violet. Forewing with broad costal and outer marginal 

 ]>lack borders, narrowing somewhat on the costa towards the base. Hindwing with 

 the costal space broadly blackish, veins blacki.sh, outer margin with blackish spots, a 

 white anteciliary line, terminal line black. Cilia of both wings violet, with white tips. 



Expanse of wings, t ? l-nr to lx% inches. 



Larva, feeds on " kindal " (Terminalia paniculata), is onisciform, flattened, head 

 and tail segments looking very similar ; head completely concealed ; it is roughish in 



