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the black eye-spots of the underside of the hindwings of the type much smaller and 

 narrower than in the specimen from Java, and that the space between them is decorated 

 with blue atoms. The form described as T. longinus, Auct., can therefore perhaps be 

 reckoned as a variety of T. cippus, Fabr. 



" For Pratapa {Cumena) cippus, de Niceville (Butt, of India, iii. p. 340), which, as 

 such, Fabricius never knew, I give the name of P. argentea. 



" Hesperia longinus* Fabr. Suppl. Ent. Syst. p. 430. 



"The type is missing. The description agrees fully with the description of 

 H. cippus, with the exception that longinus should have only one small tail to the 

 hindwing. No such Indian Lycsenid is known to me, and if there is no such a 

 specimen, longinus has, without doubt, been described from a defective specimen of 

 cippus." 



PRATAPA DEVA. 



Plate 730, figs. 4, (J , 4a, 9 > 4b, ^ , 4c, larva and pupa. 

 Amblypodia deva, Moore, Cat. Lap. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 46 (1857). 

 Tolaus deva, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lap. p. 42, pi. 18, figs. 4, 5, ^ ; 3, ? (1865). 

 Pratapa deva, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 108 (1881), and vol. iii. p. 531, pi. 210, fig. 2, ^, 2a, ? 



(1887). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 128. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1897, p. 665. 

 Camena deva, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 341 (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, 



p. 530. Swinhoe, id. 1893, p. 302. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1896, p. 384, pi. 5, f. 2, 2a. Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 385, pi. 5, fig. 16a, 16b, 



larva ; 16c, 16d, pupa. 

 Pratapa lila, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 529, pi. 49, fig. 9, ,J . 

 Camena lila, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 342 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blue, with a mauve tint. Forewing with the median, 

 the basal part of vein 3 and the sub-medians black, the apical black baud very broad, 

 occupying more than a third of the wing, its inner margin rounded, narrowing 

 gradually on the outer margin, the band near the hinder angle being fairly broad, on 

 the costa it rapidly narrows, the basal third quite narrow. Hindwing with the costa 

 broadly black, bulging hindwards below the glandular patch of scales ; a narrow outer 

 marginal black band ; some blackish suffusion along the abdominal area, the fold grey ; 

 the marginal band ending in black spots in the three anal interspaces ; tails black, tipped 

 with white. Cilia black, with pale tips. Underside cream colour ; a series of very thin 

 discal, disconnected, brown linear marks across both wings, generally obsolescent on the 

 forewing, curving round to the abdominal margin a little above the anal angle on the 

 hindwing, the tuft of hairs attached to that portion of the inner margin of the forewing 

 which is strongly bowed outwardly, is black, and very long and thick. Hindwing with 



* Referred to on p. 105. 



