LAMPIDIN^. 47 



cell short, vein 3 from before lower end of cell, 7 from beyond the middle ; wing 

 elongate, pear-shaped ; costa slightly arched, apex rounded, outer margin slightly 

 convex, hinder angle well marked, hinder margin slightly convex. 

 Type, strabo, Fabricius. 



CATOCHRYSOPS STRABO. 

 Plate 650, figs. 3, <J , 3a, ?, 3b, ? (Wet-season Brood), 3c, $, 3d, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



Hesperia strabo, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (1), p. 287 (1793). 



Polyommatus straho, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 656 (1823). 



Catochrysops siraho, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Lap. i. p. 88 (1832). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 91, 



pi. 37, figs. 2, ^, 2a, 9 (1881), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 246. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, 



p. 224, pi. 21, fig. 8, (J, 14, 9 (1884). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 358. 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 177 (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 529. 



Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 34, and 1891, p. 45, and 1897, p. 661. 



de Niceville, id. 1890, p. 386. Betham, id. 1891, p. 179. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 297. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 377. Mackinnon 



and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 380. Nurse, id. 1899, p. 512. de Ehe-Philipe, id. 1902, p. 488. 



Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 48. Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. 



p. 411, pi. 19, fig. 143, ^ (1907). 

 Lampides strabo, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 165 (1869). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 627. 

 Ctipido straho, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 106. 

 Lycsena strabo, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xix. p. 152 (1876). 



Lycxna handarpa, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 82 (1829). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 773. 

 Lampides handarpa. Semper, Journ. Mus. Godef. xiv. p. 158 (1879). 

 Lycsena asoha, Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. (2), p. 419 (1848). 

 Lycxna didda, Kollar, I.e. p. 420. 

 Lycxna platissa, Herrich-Schafier, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxx. p. 74, pl. 4, fig. 20, ? (1869); id. Ex. 



Schmett. ii. fig. 122, ? (1869). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 3, $, 3a, ?, 3b, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, pale violet-blue, shining ; terminal line on both wings 

 black, edged inwardly on the hindwing by a fine white line ; a short blackish bar at the 

 anal angle, followed by a round black spot in interspace 2, with a little white on its 

 inner side. Cilia white, with a grey medial line. Underside, pale dull grey, markings 

 darker grey edged with white. Forewing, with a bar at the end of the cell, a small 

 round sub-costal spot in interspace 10, a discal band of conjoined spots from veins 1 to 

 7, dislocated below vein 3, where the upper end of the lower portion is shifted a little 

 inward.s. Hindwing with a black sub-basal spot and a medial sub-costal black spot ; a 

 curved bar at the end of the cell, an outwardly curved discal series of six spots, the 

 first three from the top nearly in a line, the second and third conjoined, the fifth 

 inwards, the sixth outwards and lunular and three lunular spots in a row between it 



