66 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



series of thin grey connected lunules and a series of grey spots between ttem, the spot 

 in interspace 2 being largest and blackest. Underside like the male. 

 Expanse of wings, ,? ? I5 inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 3c, ^, 3d, ?). 



Male. Upperside coloured like the Wet-season form, the marginal band on the 

 forewing absent ; both wings with terminal brown fine line. Underside similar to 

 the underside of the other form. 



Female. Like the female of the Wet-season form on both sides, but on the upper- 

 side the marginal band on the forewing is much narrower and paler. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — India, Burma. 



Distribution. — We have it from Eangoon, Sikkim, the Khasia Hills, Bombay, 

 Mahableshwur, Poona and Karwar, and there is a drawer full of both forms of this 

 species, including Butler's types, in the B. M. from many parts of India. 



Note. — This species has heretofore stood in collections as the Dry-season form of 

 ,/. celeno, Cramer, and was described and figured by de Niceville and Bingham as 

 J. pura, Moore. 



JAMIDES CELENO. 



Plate 655, figs. 1 <? , la, 9 , lb, ^ (Wet-season Brood), Ic, ij , Id, V , le, 3 (Dry-season Brood), 



If (larva and pupa). 



PapiJio celeno, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 31, figs. C, D (1775). 



Lampides celeno, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 625. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, 



p. 661. Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 380. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. 



ii. p. 404, and p. 398, woodcut, fig. a (1907). 

 Lycsena alexis, Horsfield and Moore (nee Stoll), Cat. Lap. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 25, pi. i. fig. 1, larva, 



la, pupa (1857). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 773. 

 Lampides alexis, Moore (nee Stoll), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 833. Swinhoe, id. 1885, p. 131. 



Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 529. Swinhoe, id. 1893, p. 298. 

 Mesperia selianus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (i.) p. 280 (1793). 

 Polyommatus selianus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 634 (1823). 



Lycxna selianus, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 73, pi. 4, fig. 1, larva, la, pupa (1828). 

 Lampides selianus, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 166 (1869). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 94, pi. 38, 



fig. 3, ^ , 3a, $ , 3b, larva and pupa (1881). Distant, Ehop. Malayana, p. 228, pL 21, 



fig. 18, (J, and pi. 22, fig. 19, ^, variety (1884). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, 



p. 358. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 167 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1890, p. 35. Davidson and Aitken, id. p. 352. de Niceville, id. p. 386. Watson, id. 1891, 



p. 46. Betham, id. p. 179. de Ehe-Philipe, id. 1902, p. 488. Aitken and Comber, id. 



1903, p. 48. 

 Lampides zethus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 70 (1816). 

 Ctipido apnata, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 106, pi. 16, figs. 2, 4, ^,3, ?. Butler, Trans. 



Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1877, p. 547. 



