iO LEPinOPTEBA INDICA. 



vein, 11 with its base well separated from 10, but touching vein 12 above its middle, 

 12 being bent towards it, wing longer than in Edales, costa less arched, outer margin 

 less rounded. Ilindwing with vein 3 from a little before lower end of cell, 7 from well 

 before its upper end, costa slightly arched, apex and outer margin rounded ; a 

 filamentous tail. Genitalia very special, and differ much from that of Edales, more 

 inclined to Pleheid than to any other form. 

 Type, cnejus, Fabricius. 



EUCHRYSOPS CNEJUS. 



Plate 649, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, <J (Wet-season Brood), 2c, ^ , 2d, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



HesTperla cnejus, Pabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 430 (1798). 



Polyommatus cnejus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 657 (1823). 



Lyctena cnejus, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 83 (1829). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 773, 



Herrich-Schaffer, Ex. Schmett. ii. fig. 120, ? (1869). 

 Lamjpidcs cnejus, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 165 (1869). Semper, Journ. Mus. Godef. xiv. 



p. 158 (1879). 

 Citpido cnejus, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 348. 

 Catochrysops cnejus, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 92 (1881). Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 605. 



Moore, id. 1882, p. 246. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 225, pi. 21, fig. 2, (J (1884), and 



p. 456, pi. 44, fig. 15, 9 (1806). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 358. de Niceville, 



Butt, of India, iii. p. 178 (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 529. Watson, Journ. Bo. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 34. Betham, id. 1891, p. 179. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 297. 



Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 661. Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 381. 



de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, p. 488. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 48. Bingham (part), 



Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 415 (1907). 

 Eucfirysops cnejus, Butler, Soc. Ent. xxxiii. p. 1 (1900). 

 Catochrysojjs cneius, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 133. 

 Lycsena pandia, Kollar, Hugel's Kaschmir, iv. (2), p. 418 (1848). 

 Lycsena patala, Kollar, I.e. p. 419. 



Lampides patala, Butler, Trans. Linn Soc. Zool. Lond. 1877, p. 547. 

 Gaiochrysops patala, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 148. Swinhoe, id. 1885, p. 131, and 1886, 



p. 426. 

 Lycxna samoa, Herrich-Schaffer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxx. p. 37, pi. 4, fig. 18, $ , also p. 138 (1869). 

 Catochrysops tlieseus, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 131, pi. 9, fig. 8, (J. de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, iii. p. 180 (1890). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, $, 2a, ?, 2b, $). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside violet-blue. Forewinci with the outer marginal line 

 black, inwardly edged with brownish, which is broadest at the apex. Ilindwing with 

 the marginal line black, two sub-terminal black spots in interspaces 1 and 2, with 

 white outer and orange inner edges, the latter the larger. Cilia whitish, grey at its 

 base ; tail black, tipped with white. Underside grey, markings pale brown edged with 

 white. Furewing with a lunular mark at the end of the cell, a discal line of short 



