68 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA 



the markings are similar, but thin and indistinct, and the ground colour of both wings 

 is very much paler, some of the examples being very pale grey. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1^^ inches. 



Larva, when full-fed just half an inch in length, of a dull reddish-green colour, 

 thickly shagreened with minute white tubercles, scarcely, if at all, hairy ; the head pale 

 ochreous, entirely hidden beneath the second segment, the segments increasing in width 

 to about the fifth, the two anal segments slightly decreasing and above flattened, 

 especially the thirteenth ; the erectile organs very small ; a dorsal pulsating line, some- 

 what darker than the rest of the body ; a sub-dorsal series of pale green oblique 

 streaks, one on each segment on each side from the third to the eleventh segment 

 inclusive ; no other conspicuous markings. Dr. Forel has identified the ant that attends 

 the larva in Calcutta as Camponotus mitis. Smith ( = bacchus, Smith = ventralis, Smith). 

 Dr. G. King identifies the plant on which the larva feeds in Calcutta as Heynea trijuga, 

 Roxburgh. 



Ptjpa, of the usual Lycsenid shape, quite smooth, neither hairy nor pitted, pale 

 ochreous-greenish, the upper portions of the abdominal segments darker, covered 

 throughout with coarse, rounded, blackish spots placed irregularly ; a dorsal and a sub- 

 dorsal series of similar but larger spots or blotches placed irregularly. Head bluntly 

 rounded, thorax slightly humped and constricted posteriorly, end of the abdomen 

 rounded (de Niceville). 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Ceylon, Andamans, Nicobars and the Malayan region, 

 extending to the Philippines. A very common species. 



Note. — de Niceville puts Papilio alexis, StoU, as a synonym to selianus, Fabricius, 

 but Stoll records his type as from Surinam, he has only figured its upperside and it is 

 impossible to make out what it is meant to represent. 



JAMIDES KINKURKA. 

 Plate 655, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, ,? , 2c, ? . 



Lycsena Unlcurlca, Felder, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. "Wien, xii. p. 481 (1862) ; id. Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. 



p. 273, pi. 34, figs. 24, 25, 9 (1865). 

 Lampides hinhiirha, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 588. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 171 



(1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 404, and p. 409, woodcut, fig. a (1907). 

 Lampides selianus, Wood-Mason and de Niceville (nee Fabricius), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, 



p. 234. de Niceville, id. 1882, p. 17. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale whitish opalescent blue. Forewing with a narrow 

 whitish even band, containing a series of sub-terminal, pale blackish lunular marks, 

 some little pale blackish suffusion at the apex, beyond these marks the narrow whitish 

 band is complete and distinct in fresh specimens, and it is limited on its inner side by 



