♦a LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Pupa. — Very pale green, the abdominal segments somewhat opaque ; of the usual 

 Lyceenid shape, no distinctive structure or markings. Head-case square, thorax 

 slightly humped, slightly constricted before the first abdominal segment, a dark dorsal 

 line extending the whole length ; spiracles black ; entire surface smooth, not haiiy 

 (de Niceville). 



Habitat. — Throughout India, Ceylon and the Malayan sub-region, extending to 

 Australia. A very common insect. 



Note — The type-specimen of the variety theseus is unique, and as, until more 

 examples are procured, it is impossible to decide by dissection whether it is a good 

 form or not, we leave it here. 



EUCHRYSOPS CONTRACTA. 



Plate 650, figs. 1, (J, la, J, lb, $ (Wet-season Brood), Ic, (J, Id, J (Dry-season Brood). 



Laiiqndes coniracta, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 406, pi. 39, fig. 3, $ . 



Catochrysops coniracta, Butler, I.e. 1881, p. 606. S^vinhoe, id. 1884, p. 506. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. 



Soc. 1893, p. 297. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 181 (1890). Nurse, Journ. Bo. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. 1899, p. 512. 

 Catochrysops ella, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 606, and 1886, p. 365. Swinhoe, id. 1884, p. 506, 



and 1886, p. 426. Swinhoe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 273. de Nioeville, Butt, of 



India, iii. p. 180 (1890). 

 Catochrysops hapalina, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 148, pi. 24, figs. 2, ^,3, J . S^vinhoe, id. 



1885, p. 131, and 1886, p. 426. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 145. de Niceville, Butt. 



of India, iii. p. 182 (189'0). 

 Catochrysops cnejus, Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 415 (1907). 



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



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark grey-blue tinged with lilac ; both wings with a 

 fine outer marginal black line and pure white cilia, with a blackish-brown basal band. 

 Hindwing with a small terminal black spot in interspace 1, and a very minute black 

 dot in the next interspace, not always present, without any white or orange edges ; tail 

 black tipped with white. Underside dark grey, markings disposed as in cnejus, but very 

 obscure, and on the hindwing the black sub-basal and costal spots are indicated by pale 

 spots a little darker than the colour of the wing, and there is a distinct white fascia 

 across the wing, between the discal row of spots and the sub-terminal series ; the anal 

 spots are small and obscure; and the orange and white edgings are very small and faint, 

 and often absent. Antennas black, ringed with white ; head and body blackish-brown 

 above, with some blue scales, white beneath. 



Female. Upperside coloured like the male, but darker. Forewing ydth. the costa 

 broadly blackish, the outer margin with a narrower blackish baud. Hindwing with 

 the costal portion suflused broadly with blackish, the outer marginal band about as 



