Eyes of moderate size, naked ; head small, clothed with scales and hairs ; hairs on 

 both face and head inclined forwards, frons flattish, moderately narrow, very slightly 

 tapering wider to meet the palpi ; palpi long, upturned, densely scaled and with 

 longish hairs ; end segment long, smooth, slightly depressed ; antennae slender, termi- 

 nating in a slightly spatulate club. Forew'mg, rather narrow, costa slightly arched, 

 outer margin fully arched. Hindwing long, rather narrow, with outer margin very 

 strongly arched ; tail fine. Neuration. Forewing, vein 2 from before the middle of 

 the cell, 3 from before the lower angle, 4 from the angle, 5 from about the middle of 

 the discocellulars, 6 from the upper angle, 7 from before upper end of cell, 8 absent, 

 9 from middle of 7, 10 from the cell, 11 anastomosing shortly with 12. Hind- 

 wing, vein 2 from beyond the middle of the cell, 3 and 4 from the lower angle, 5 from 

 the middle of the discocellulars, 7 from well behind the upper angle of the cell ; fore- 

 legs of male long and slender, tarsus incomplete, as generally obtains in the Lyceenidfe ; 

 tarsus in female apparently normal, mid pair of moderate length ; hindlegs no longer 

 than the mid, tibiae with one pair of spurs. 



Type, E. argiades, Pallas. 



EVERES ARGIADES. 

 Plate 636, figs. 2 <J , 2a, ? , 2b, ^ . 



Papilio argiades, Pallas, Reise, i. App. p. 472 (1771). 



Lycaena argiades, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 887. Lang, Butt, of Europe, p. 101, pi. 22, 



fig- 5, ^ ? (1884). Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 41-5. Pryer, Rhop. Niphon. p. 17, pi. 4, 



fig. 23 A, ^, 23 B, 9 (1888). 

 Everes argiades, de Niceville (part), Butt, of India, iii. p. 137, pi. 26, fig. 180, ^ (1890). Bingham 



(part), Fauna of Brit. India Butt. ii. p. 378, pi. 19, figs. 141, 142, (J ? (1907). Leslie and 



Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 674. Chapman, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 373, 



pi. 19, figs. 1, 2 (genitalia). 

 Papilio polysperchon, Bergstrasser, Nomencl. ii. p. 72, pi. 44, figs. 3 to 5 (1779). Ochsenheimer, 



Schmett. Eur. i. (2), p. 61 (1808). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violet-blue. Forewing with a black slender costal 

 line. Hindwing with a blackish narrow costal space ; both wings with black terminal 

 line, and a series of indistinct blackish sub-terminal spots on the hindwing ; tails black 

 tipped with white. Underside greyish- white, spots black. Forewing with some sparse 

 pale blue scaling at the base, a slender black lunular mark at the end of the cell, a line 

 of six discal spots, the lower linear, a seventh spot inwards below the costa. Hindwing 

 with basal and abdominal portions sparsely irrorated with pale blue scales, three sub- 

 basal spots, a discal whorl of eight spots, the first sub-costal near the apex, the second 

 below it, on the inner side, the third outwards and in a well inturned curve with the 



