218 LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Hampson from the Nilgiris, by Watson from Mysore ; 

 in our collection from Trevandrum, Poona, the Annamali and Pulni Hills, and in the 

 B. M. also from Kolar. 



LYC^NOPSIS LIMBATA. 



Plate 623, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, <J . 



Polyommatug limhalus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 139. 



Gyaniris limhatus, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 356. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 109 (1890). Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 373. 

 Cyaniris limhata, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 33. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, 



Butt. ii. p. 329 (1907). 

 Lycsenopsis limhata, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 447 (text fig. 85). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purplish-blue ; costal line of forewing and 

 terminal line of both wings black. Underside greyish-white, with a slight blue tint ; 

 markings pale brown, much as in L. j^uspa, but smaller and more slender ; the 

 discal line of linear marks on the forewing more " regular ; the spot nearest the 

 costa well inwards. Hindwing with the three sub-basal black spots as usual, but in 

 a line with each other, and another black spot on the abdominal margin nearer 

 the base ; a linear mark at the end of the cell ; the discal row of markings ending with 

 a rather large black spot near the costa ; both wings with a sub-terminal lunular line, 

 a fine black marginal line, and between them a series of spots, the last three nearest 

 the anal angle being black. 



Female much paler, with some blue iridescence. Forewing with the costal band 

 broad ; the outer marginal band narrower. Hindwing with the costal and marginal 

 bands broadly brownish-black in some examples, in others it is paler and diffused, and 

 the outer margin contains a blackish sub-terminal lunular line, a black marginal line, 

 and black spots between them. Underside as in the male. Antennae black, ringed 

 with white ; head and body black above, greyish beneath ; head and thorax clothed 

 with lung bluish hairs above. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ ly^ inches. 



Habitat. — Southern India, Behar, Bengal, Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Hampson records it from the Nilgiris, Watson from Mysore, 

 Davidson from Karwar, de Niceville from the Parisnath Hills and Travancore ; we 

 have it from Ceylon, Coorg, and Trevandrum. 



LYCiENOPSIS MARGINATA. 



Plate 624, figs. 1, <J, la, ?, lb, $ (Wet-season Brood), Ic, $, Id, ? , le, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



Cyaniris marginata, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 70, pi. i. fig. 9, ^ . Moore, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 523, pi. 48, fig. 6, ^ . Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 134. 



