GO LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? IfV inches. 



Larva, hardly distinguishable from that of Catochrysops pandava, Horsfield, it 

 is, however, covered with minute hairs, and is generally of an olive-green colour, and 

 without the reddish suffusion so generally noticed in C. 2jandava ; feeds on Xylia 

 dolabriformis and also on the flowers of Butea frondosa. 



Pupa, indistinguishable from that of G. pandava (Davidson, Bell and Aitken). 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Ceylon, Andamans, the Malayan sub-region to Australia. 



Distribution. — All peninsular India except the desert tracts ; Elwes records it 

 from the Naga and Karen Hills, Watson from Mysore, the Chin Hills, and Chin Lushai, 

 Betham from the Central Provinces, Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussuri, de Ehe- 

 Philipe from Lucknow, Hampson from the Nilgiris, Manders from the Shan States, 

 Davidson, Bell and Aitken from Karwar ; we have taken many examples in Bombay. 



JAMIDES NICOBARICUS. 



Plate 653, figs. 1, ^, la, J, lb, $. 



Lampides ^lato, var. nicoharicus, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 234-. 

 Jamides bochus race nicoharicus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 158, pi. 27, fig. 186, ^ (1890). 

 Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 398 (1907). 



Imago. — Male, very like the sex of /. bochus on both sides, but on the upper 

 side the blue area of the forewing is more extensive, there being no costal black baud ; 

 on the hindwing the anal augle has some blackish on it, which in some examples is 

 somewhat extended up the abdominal margin. 



Female, like the typical form of female. 



Expanse of wings, ,? ? lyV inches. 



Habitat. — Nicobar Islands. 



JAMIDES CORUSCANS. 



Plate 653, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, $ , 2b, ^ . 



Lanqmlcs coruscans, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 341 ; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 96, pi. 36, 

 figs. 9, 9b, (J, 9a, ? (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 163 (1890). Manders, Journ. 

 Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1904, p. 78. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 400, and 

 p. 398, woodcut, fig. C. (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside shining metallic cobalt-blue. Forewing with the costal 

 and terminal line black, the latter edged inwardly by a fine pale bluish line, followed 

 by a little Ijlackish suffusion containing some indistinct blackish suffused spots. 

 Hindwing with the costal area greyish, terminal line black, edged inwardly by a distinct 

 white line, followed by sub-terminal black spots, commencing with the largest in the 



