•14 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Sub-Family LAMPIDIN^. 



Eyes hairy. Forewing with vein 12 usually bent towards 11, sometimes touching 

 it ; in Jamides joined by a short bar ; in Nacaduha they anastomose for a short dis- 

 tance ; 8 absent. 



The genitalia present much variation, most of the genera have a pistol-shaped 

 sedceagus much like that of Lycaenopsis (Chapman). 



Genus LAMPIDES. 



Lampides, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 70 (1816). 



Poh/ommalus, Moore (nee Latreille), Lap. Ceylon, i. p. 93 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 230 



(1884). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 203 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, 



Butt. ii. p. 432 (1907). 



Eyes hairy. Forewing with cell less than half the length of the wing, veins 

 G and 7 close together, 8 absent, 9 from the middle of 7, 10 and 11 from apical half of 

 sub-costal, 12 bent towards 11, very close, touching it, but not anastomosed, 12 long, 

 ends on costa opposite end of cell ; costa very slightly arched, nearly straight, apex 

 not acute, outer margin convex, hinder angle obtuse, hinder margin straight. Hind- 

 wing with the cell very short, veins 3 and 4 from lower end of cell, 7 from a little 

 before upper end, 8 arched at base, ends on costa before the apex ; costa slightly 

 arched, apex rounded, outer margin rather straight, especially in the female, hinder 

 angle angulate, hinder margin rather long. 



Type, bceticus, Liunseus. 



LAMPIDES BCETICUS. 

 Plate 650, figs. 2, (J , 2a, ? , 2b, ^ . 



Pajnllo hoeiicus, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. xii. vol. i. (2), p. 789 (1767). Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 522 

 (1775) ; Sp. Ins. ii. p. 119 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 69 (1787). Esper, Schmett. i. (1), pi. 27, 

 figs. 3a, b (1778), and jjart ii. pi. 91, fig. 3 (1784). Hubner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 373, 374, ^ , 

 375, 9 (1798-1803). 



Foh/onmatiis hoeticus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 653 (1823). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 93 (1881). 

 Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 31. Distant, Ehop. Malayana, p. 214, fig. 64, neuration of 

 forewing, p. 230, pi. 20, fig. 8, <?, 1, $ (1884). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 204, pi. 27, 

 fig. 190, <J (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 34, and 1891, p. 47, and 1897, 

 p. 662. de Niceville, id. 1890, p. 297. Betham, id. 1891, p. 179. Mackinnon and de Niceville, 

 id. 1898, p. 381. Nurse, id. 1899, p. 512. de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, p. 489. Leslie and Evans, 

 id. 1903, p. 674. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. x-s-i. 1903, p. 48. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. 

 India, Butt. ii. p. 432 (1907). 



