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sub-costal, vein 11 joins 12, and they do not again separate as they do in other Everids. 

 Costa arched, apex rounded, outer margin convex, hinder angle obtuse, hinder margin 

 sinuate. Hindwing oval, costa, outer margin and hinder angle in a continuous curve, 

 cell short, narrow, middle and lower discocellulars obsolescent, veins 3 and 4 from 

 lower end of cell, 8 arched at base, extending very close to costal margin to apex. • 

 Antennae more than half the length of the costa of forewing ; club long, gradual ; palpi 

 sub-porrect, third joint very long, naked. 



TALICADA NYSEUS. 



Plate 639, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, $ , 3c (larva and pupa). 



Polyommaius nyseus, Guerin, Delessert's Souv. Voy. dans I'lnde, p. 78, pi. 22, figs. 1, la (IS-tS). 



ScoUiantides nyseus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 607. 



Talicada nyseus, Moore, Lap. Ceylon, i. p. 97, pi. 39, figs. 1, la (imago), lb (larva and pupa), 

 (1881). Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 133. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 358. 

 de NiceviUe, Butt, of India, iii. p. 135 (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 528. 

 Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 35. Watson, id. 1894, p. 45. Aitken and Comber, 

 id. 1903, p. 47. de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1906, p. 230. Davidson, BeU and Aitken, id. 1896, 

 p. 375, pi. 4, figs. 1, la (larva and pupa). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 376, 

 pi. 19, fig. 140, 9 (1907). 



Lycsena nyseus, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 271, pi. 94, $ (1888). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black. Cilia of both wings spotted with white. 

 Fureiving with costal line very finely white. Hindwing with a conspicuous orange-red 

 patch occupying more than the lower third of the wing, extending from the abdominal 

 margin to vein 6, its inner side then angled and continued along the vein to the outer 

 margin, its inner edge is uneven, and the black colour runs down the abdominal margin 

 narrowly to the anal angle, and the patch is bordered outwardly by a black line on the 

 outer margin. Underside greyish-white. Forewing with a black bar at the end of 

 the cell, the outer part of the wing deep black, covering much more than a third of 

 the wing, its inner edge curved from the costa to its middle, then nearly straight to 

 the hinder margin ; inside the black portion are two rows of prominent white spots, 

 and an anteciliary broken white line of short linear marks. Hindwing with a black 

 basal spot, one below it on the abdominal margin, a larger spot below the costal third, a 

 small one below this, a large linear sub-costal mark beyond the middle, a bar at end of 

 cell, a small spot below it in the lower disc, and one opposite on the abdominal 

 margin beyond its middle ; apex of the wing with a black triangular patch with two 

 white spots in it, a broad orange-red band on the outer margin, which is narrower than 

 the apical patch, and has a series of prominent white spots across its middle, a black 

 marginal line, with a fine broken white line on its inner side. Cilia of both wings 



