138 LEPIBOPTEBA INDICA. 



third median nervule much arched throughout its length ; second median arising 

 immediately before the lower end of the cell ; first median arising nearer the lower 

 end of the cell than the base of the wing, arising about twice as far from the second 

 as the second does from the third ; sub-median nervule straight ; internal nervure 

 short, bowed outwardly close to its base. Antennae about half the length of the costa 

 of the foi'ewing, with a lengthened rather slender club ; eyes naked ; palpi naked, 

 porrected forwards, the third joint not rising above the level of the top of the head ; 

 thorax small ; abdomen not nearly reaching to the anal angle of the hindwing. 



Female. Wings broader than in the male. Foreioings, inner margin, instead of 

 being bowed out as in the male, is emarginate in the middle, and has no tufts of hair 

 attached to its edge and turned under and forwards as in the male. Hindwing, costa 

 regularly and evenly arched throughout its length ; costal nervule long, ending at the 

 apex of the wing, in the male it is short, and the first sub-costal nervule ends at the 

 apex ; no androconal patch of modified scales in the sub-costal interspace. Otherwise 

 as in the male. 



Type, C. cleobis, Godart. 



This genus is allied to Camena, Hewitson ( = Pratapa, Moore), but differs in its 

 male secondary sexual characters. In the forewing it has two (instead of one) tufts of 

 hair attached to the inner margin, which is a unique feature in the LycEenidse as far as 

 I am aware ; and the androconal patch on the hindwing is very much smaller, being 

 confined to the middle of one interspace, instead of extending into several interspaces 

 as in C. ctesia, Hewitson (the type of Camena), and C. deva, Moore (the type of 

 Pratapa, Moore). The hindwing is also more bowed forwards in the middle, forming 

 there an obtuse angle, and is more produced in the anal region from the lobe to the 

 second median nervule than in those species, (de Niceville.) 



CREON CLEOBIS. 



Plate 730, figs. 1, (J , la, J , lb, <J, Ic, larva and pupa. 



Polyommatus cleobis, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 634 (1823). 



lolaus cleobis, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 43, pl. 18, figs. 8, 9, ^ ; 10, 5 (1865). 



Pratapa cleobis, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 188.5, p. 49. 



Camena (Pratapa) cleobis, Hampson, Journ As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 360. 



Camena cleobis, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 343 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1891, p. 49. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 302. 

 Creon cleobis, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 181. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. 



1896, p. 385, pl. 5, fig. 1, la, larva and pupa. Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 386. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brilliant blue, sometimes dark sky-blue, but varying 

 somewhat in shade of colour. Forewing with more than the apical third and the outer 

 third of the cell black, the remaining short basal portion of the costa narrowly black. 



