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CHILADES PUTLI. 



Plate 639, figs. 2, ^, 2a, ? , 2b, $ . 



Li/csena putli, KoUar, Hugel's Kaschmir, iv. (2), p. 422 (1848). 



Chilades putli, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 77, pi. 35, figs. 4, 4a (1881) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 245. 



Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 507, and 1886, p. 427. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1890, p. 34. Nurse, id. 1899, p. 512. 

 Zizera putli, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 356. 

 Chilades {Lycaena) putli, Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1 890, p. 528. 

 Chilades trochilus, Davidson, Bell and Aitken (nee Freyer), Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 373. 



Aitken and Comber, id. p. 47. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackish-brown, with a slight violaceous tinge, both 

 wings with a marginal darker line. Hindiving with four (sometimes indications of a 

 fifth) black sub-terminal spots in a row on the lower half of the wing, sometimes edged 

 with very indistinct pale ochreous. Cilia white, grey at the base. Underside with 

 the ground colour darker than in trochilus, the markings similarly disposed, but none 

 of them are black, except the four sub-basal spots and the costal spot on the hindwing, 

 all the other spots are of the ground colour of the wings, formed by their white 

 edgings, and there are five and sometimes six sub-terminal black spots with blue 

 metallic scales. Antennse black, ringed with white, head and body black above, white 

 beneath. 



Female. Above and below like the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ xV inch. 



Habitat. — Throughout India and Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Watson records it from Mysore, Nurse froii Kutch, Manders 

 from the Shan States ; we have taken it at Deesa, Karachi, Mhow, Poona and Bombay, 

 and have received it from Campbellpur, Nilgiris and Ceylon ; it is in the B. M. also 

 from Kutch, Ganjam, Berhampore, Tiliu Yaw, Port Darwin and Queensland. 



Genus TALICADA. 



Talicada, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 96 (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 134 (1890). 

 Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 375 (1907). 



Eyes naked. An aberrant form of Everid ; the very unusual (in Lycsenidse) 

 union of two lateral valves of the dorsal armature of ancillary appendages (uncus) 

 characteristic of Everids is here carried so far that there is only a single central spike 

 with lateral parameres (the usual hooks), the whole much resembling the dorsal 

 armature in Erehia (Chapman). Forewing, cell long and narrow, veins 3 and 7 from 

 close to lower and upper ends of the cell ; 3 and 4, and 6 and 7 respectively very 

 closely approximate at base ; 8 absent, 9 from middle of 7, 10 and 11 from apical half of 



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