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of a different nature to that of emolus. What halliston, Hiibner, is, we do not know ; it 

 is also made a synonym of emolus, but its habitat is doubtful, we therefore omit it. 



LYC^NESTHES LYCJININA. 

 Plate 652, figs. 2, ^, 2a, 9,2b, ^. 



Lycsena lycxnina, Felder, Verb. Zool.-bot, Ges. Wien, xviii. p. 281 (1868). Hewitson, II]. Diura. 



Lep. p. 219, pi. 90, fig.s. 6, 9, ? (1878). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 87, pi. 35, figs. 8, 8a, $ 



(1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 232, pi. 21, fig. 3, $ (1884). Hampson, Journ. As. 



See. Bengal, 1888, p. 357. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 130, pi. 26, fig. 178, $ (1890). 



Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 34, and 1891, p. 45, and 1897, p. 660. Elwes, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 623. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 296. Bingham, Fauna of 



Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 375 (1907). 

 Lycaenesihes lycamhes, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 220, pi. 90, figs. 11, 12, ^ (1878). de Niceville, 



Butt, of India, iii. p. 131 (1890). 

 Lycaenestlies orissica, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 23. 



Imago.— Male. Upperside of a lighter and brighter purple colour than emolus, 

 apex of forewing more acute, the outer margin straighter, the hindwing is more 

 truncate, the anal angle somewhat acute instead of being rounded ; terminal line 

 black, but not expanding at the apex of the forewing, no sub-terminal indistinct 

 blackish spots on the hindwing. Cilia similar. Underside, bands slightly darker than 

 the ground colour, edged with white. Foreiving with a bar at the end of the cell, a 

 discal dislocated band of four conjoined bars, from costa to vein 4, a conjoined bar 

 slightly inwards, in the next interspace, a band of three conjoined bars, from the inner 

 side of the fifth bar, running hindwards from vein 3 to vein 1. Ili/ubcuu/ with a sub- 

 basal, round black spot, ringed with white, below the costa (not always present), a 

 band across the end of the cell, continued to vein 1, a sub-basal spot on the abdominal 

 margin (sometimes nearly black) ringed with white ; a discal, somewhat irregular, 

 outwardly curved band of conjoined bars, with two conjoined bars touching on its 

 inner side from vein 7 to vein 4 ; both wings with terminal brown line and a sub- 

 terminal double series of white lunules, a large black sub-terminal spot iu interspace 

 2 of the hindwing, crowned with orange, the terminal line of this wing inwardly 

 edged by a white line, and the cilia grey with white basal line. 



Female. Upperside much as in the female of emolus, the sub-terminal spots on 

 the hindwing generally more prominent. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? IfV inches. 



Habitat.— India, Burma, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Borneo. 



Distribution. — The type came from Ceylon, we have not been able to examine it, 

 it is not at Tring, and we have not been able to ascertain where it is deposited ; Moore 

 records it from Orissa, Elwes from the Naga Hills, Watson from Mysore and the Chin 



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