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second interspace, the spots decreasing in size upwards, with a little blackish suffusion 

 between them, the large spot with a lunular mark on its inner side, which is continued 

 in duplicate somewhat indistinctly to the anal angle. Underside pale greyish-brown, 

 markings white. Forewing with two straight lines closing the cell, the inner one 

 continued hindwards to vein 1 ; followed by a discal line from near the costa, where it 

 is duplicated in the shape of a cup, straight down to the hinder margin, the fourth line 

 parallel with it from near the costa to vein 3. Hindv:ing with five transverse lines 

 fairly close together, the first a little distance from the base, all the lines on both wings 

 formed of more or less irregular-shaped lunules, some joined together and some 

 disconnected ; both wings with terminal black line, sub-terminal brown spots each in a 

 white angulated spot, followed by a series of brown lunules with white caps, a large 

 sub-terminal black spot in interspace 2 of the hindwing, capped with orange. Cilia 

 above and below, brown at the tips, white at the base, interrupted opposite the vein 

 ends with brown, tads black, tipped with white. Antennae black, with white speckles ; 

 head, thorax and abdomen blackish, with blue hairs above, white beneath. 



Female. Upperside dull blue-grey, costa narrowly and outer margin broadly 

 blackish-brown, the blackish colour sometimes shortly running up the veins. Hindwing 

 with the costa broadly blackish, terminal line black, sub-terminal black spots edged and 

 capped with white, followed by another series of indistinct smaller blackish spots, 

 capped also with indistinct whitish lunules. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ Ijq inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



JAMIDES LACTEATA. 

 Plate 653, figs. 3, <? , 3a, ? , 3b, ? . 



Lampides lacteata, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 36, pi. S, figs. 25, 26, ^ 9 . 



Manders, id. 1904, p. 78. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 401, and p. 398, 



■n-oodcut, fig. b (1907). 

 Lampides pseudelphis, Moore (nee Butler), Lap. Ceylon, i. p. 95 (1881). de Niciiville, Butt, of India, 



iii. p. 165 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale shining azure-blue, varying in shades of colour in 

 different examples, sometimes as pale as J. elpis, often darker. Forewing with costal 

 and terminal fine black line. Hindwing with the costa broadly pale, terminal line 

 black, edged inwardly with a fine white line and some blackish sub-terminal spots, the 

 abdominal marginal space also pale. Cilia of both wings black at the base and blackish 

 at the tips, leaving a medial white band with black points at the vein ends ; tail black, 

 tipped with white. Underside: dark brownish-grey, markings white. Forewing with a 

 medial line from the median vein, obliquely to the hinder margin, a line at the end of 

 the cell, with a dot above it near the costa, followed by a line from near the costa to 



