224 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Bengal, 1888, p. 356. de NiceviUe, Butt, of India, iii. p. 95 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. 

 Hist. See. 1890, p. 34. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 318 (1907). 

 Lycsenopsis ahasa, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 458 (text fig. 100). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside white. Forewing witli the costal and outer marginal 

 bands broadly black, broadest at the apex ; the marginal band stopping abruptly before 

 the hinder angle ; the base of the wing suffused with blackish with blue iridescence 

 which extends up the wing and covers the lower half of the costal band. Hindwing 

 with base and two-thirds of the costal space suffused with blackish and blue iridescence ; 

 marginal line black, slender ; a series of black dots on its inner side. Underside white, 

 markings black. Forewing with a fine line at the end of the cell, a post-discal row of 

 short linear marks in regular order, rather close to the margin, ending with an inner 

 spot below the costa. Hindwing with the three sub-basal spots in a line, a discal, 

 curved row of spots, commencing with a sub-costal spot a little beyond the middle, a 

 dot below it ; four spots in a curve in the middle of the wing, and two detached spots 

 below the lowest spot ; a sub-terminal row of spots and a slender terminal line. 



Female, like the male, but without any blue reflections on the upperside. Cilia 

 white. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body black above, white beneath. 



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Habitat. — Southern India, Ceylon, extending to Java. 



Distribution. — Eecorded by Hampson from the Nilgiris, by Watson from Mysore, 

 by de Niceville from Shevaroy, Anamally and Pulni Hills ; in our collection from North 

 Canara, Trevandrum, Travancore, Madras, Kandy and Trincomali ; in the B. M. 

 Horsefield's type from Java, and others from the same locality. 



LYCJINOPSIS SINGALENSIS. 



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Lycsena singalensis, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xviii. p. 282 (1868). 



Polyommatus singalensis, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 342. 



Cyaniris singalensis, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 76, pi. 35, figs. 1, la, ^ (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, iii. p. 108 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, ii. p. 333 (1907). 

 Lycsenopsis singalensis. Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 468 (text fig. 113). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purplish-blue ; outer marginal line of both wings 

 black. Underside greyish silvery-white with a very slight blue tint, markings brown. 

 Forewing with a linear mark at the end of the cell ; a post-discal row of short linear 

 outwardly oblique marks, the lowest not oblique, all of them in an even row, ending in 

 two small spots curving inwards below the costa. Hindwing with the three sub-costal 

 black spots in a line, the fourth inner spot near the abdominal margin a mere dot, 

 sometimes absent, a discal whorl of spots, the upper one and the two lower ones 



