HYPOLYCmmN^. 145 



Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 350 (1893). Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 385. 

 lolaiis contractus. Leech, Entom. xxiii. p. 39 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brilliant ultramarine-blue. Forewing nearly all 

 brownish-black, the marginal bands being very broad, the blue colour, limited by the 

 median vein and the basal half of its first branch, and hindwards by the sub-median 

 vein, the outer margin of the blue area rounded, and a little of the blue runs into the 

 base of the cell. Hindwing also nearly all brownish-black, the costa, base, and 

 abdominal area being very broadly blackish, the outer marginal black band narrow, 

 thus leaving only a small space in the middle disc blue ; with black sub-terminal spots 

 on the blue in interspaces 1 to 4 ; anal lobe ochreous ,• tails black, tipped wnth 

 white. Cilia of both wings black, with some small white dots at the root of the tails 

 and above them. Underside grey, with a little gloss ; both wings with fine brown, 

 rather sinuous transverse discal line, hardly curved on either wing, its lower portion 

 on the hindwing curving abruptly inwards to the abdominal margin ; indications of a 

 sub-marginal fascia and another close to the margin, more or less obsolete on the 

 forewing ; the sexual tuft of thick hairs on the hinder margin of the forewing black ; a 

 black anal spot on the hindwing, another in the first interspace, both capped with 

 orange, an anteciliary white thread on the lower half. Antennae black, ringed with 

 white, club with a red tip ; frons white, with a black spot in its middle ; head and body 

 above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside black. Forewing with the basal and discal area pale blue 

 with some blackish irrorations at its base. Hindwing with the disc more or less pale 

 blue, sparsely suffused with blackish with some black sub-marginal spots; anal lobe 

 bright ochreous. Underside as in the male, the ground colour whiter, the markings, 

 especially on the forewing, more prominent. 



Expanse of wings, $ l^ to 1^^, $ ly^o *» lyu inches. 



Habitat. — Himalayas, Burma, Assam, China. 



Distribution. — We have both sexes from Simla, and males from the Khasia Hills, 

 the type male is labelled " India." Moore records it from the Kangra Valley, Mackinnon 

 and de Niceville from Masuri, Elwes from Eastern Pegu, de Niceville says Ellis took 

 it at Chumba, Graham Young at Kulu, Lang at Naini Tal, 6,000 feet elevation, and 

 Knyvett at Darjiling. 



PRATAPA ICETOIDES. 

 Plate 731, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, $. 

 Camena icetoides, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 636, pi. 44, fig. 3, <J . 



Male. Like C. icetas, Hew., but wants the short transverse bars at end of cell in 

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