LAMPIDIN^. 55 



of forewing ; club long, gradual, acute at apex ; palpi porrect, fringed with stiff hairs in 

 front ; third joint long, naked ; body robust. 

 Type, hengalensis, Moore. 



LYC^KESTHES EMOLUS. 



Plate 652, figs. 1, $ , U, ? , lb, ^ . 



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



Lycsenesthes emolus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 128 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. 1891, p. 45, and 1897, p. 660. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 296. Elwes, id. p. 622. 



Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 374. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. 



India, Butt. ii. p. 373 (1907). 

 Lycsenesthes hengalensis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 773, pi. 41, fig. 2, ^. Distant, Pihop. 



Malayana, p. 458, pi. 44, fig. 9, (J (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark, dull, purple-blue, base of wings suffused with 

 dark dull blue scales ; terminal line on both wings black, expanding slightly at the 

 apex of the forewing ; sub-terminal, indistinct, black spots in interspaces 1, 2 and 3 on 

 the hindwing, the upper one the smallest. Cilia brown. Underside pale brown, with 

 a slight purplish tint, markings slightly darker than the colour of the wing, formed by 

 their whitish edgings. Forewing with a bar at the end of the cell, a discal sinuous and 

 outwardly curved band of short bars joined together, rather close to the margin, followed 

 by a sub-terminal complete band of small lunular marks joined together, this band 

 having the whitish edging only on its outer side. Hindwing with sub-basal band of 

 three bar-shaped spots, with a minute blackish spot below them on the abdominal 

 margin, a bar at the end of the cell, a discal, outwardly curved complete band of short 

 bars joined together, terminal black band inwardly edged with whitish, a series of sub- 

 terminal darker and somewhat angulated spots, inwardly edged by whitish lunules, 

 closely followed by a similar smaller series, a sub-terminal black spot, capped with dull 

 orange in interspace 3. Antennae black, speckled with white ; head and body purplish- 

 brown above, whitish beneath. Cilia grey, with a black basal band above, brown 

 beneath. 



Female. Upperside pale brownish, of a violet tint. Forewing with the base, 

 costa and outer margins broadly suffused with dark brown, the hinder margin 

 narrowly brown, terminal line black. Hindioing with some brown suffusion at the 

 base, and with a brown, narrow outer marginal suffusion, terminal line black, 

 inwardly edged by a white line, a series of indistinct, sub-terminal blackish triangular 

 spots, inwardly edged with pale lunules. Underside like the male, ground colour some- 

 what paler. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1-j^ inches. 



