PLEBEINm. 37 



ALLIED CHINESE SPECIES. 



Orfhomiella sinensis, Chilades (?) sinenses, Elwes, Pi-oc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 446. Leech, Butt, of 

 China, etc. ii. p. 339, pi. 31, fig. 19, ? (1893). Habitat, Chang Yang. 



Genus ED ALES, nov. 



CatocJirysnps, Moore (part), Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 90, 1881. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 223 (1884). 

 de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 175 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 410, 

 (1907). 



Eyes naked. Forewing, cell half as long as the wing, vein 7 from well before 

 upper end of cell, 8 absent, 9 from middle of 7, 11 free from 12. Wing comparatively 

 short, costa arched, apex moderately acute, outer margin convex, hinder angle obtuse, 

 hinder margin straight. Hindwing, cell short, less than half the length of the wing ; 

 vein 3 emitted a little before lower end of cell, 7 a little before the upper end ; costa 

 slightly arched, apex and outer margin rounded, hinder angle well marked, hinder 

 margin slightly convex, a filamentous tail ; genitalia distinctly Plebeid. 



Type, pandava, Horsfield. 



EDALES PANDAVA. 



Plate 649, figs. 1, (J , la, ?, lb, $ (Wet-season Brood), Ic, (J, Id, 9 (Dry-season Brood), le (larva 

 and pupa). 



LycBena pandava, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 84 (1829). 



Catochrysops pandava, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 92, pi. 37, figs. 1, ^, la, 9, lb, larva and pupa 



(1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 22.5, pi. 21, fig. 17, $ (1884). de Niceville, Journ. As. 



Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 47 ; id. Butt, of India, iii. p. 183, pi. 27, fig. 187, ? (Wet-season Form), 



p. 184, pi. 27, fig. 188, ? (Dry-season Form) (1890) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 386. 



Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 627. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 46. 



Betham, id. p. 179. Watson, id. 1897, p. 661. Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 381. 



de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, p. 488. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 413 (1907). 

 Catochrysops nicola, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 132. 

 Catochrysops bengalia, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 47. 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, ?). 



Imago.— Male. Upperside lavender-blue, costal line of forewing and outer 

 marginal line of both wings black. Hindwing with a sub-terminal series of black spots 

 with a thin white line between them, and the terminal black line, the spot at the end 

 of interspace 2 large, inwardly crowTied more or less broadly with pale ochreous-yellow ; 

 tails black with white tips. Underside brownish-grey ; markings of the ground colour 



