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an indistinct grey thick line. Hindwing with a similar terminal band, but the sub- 

 terminal lunular marks are black, the largest one in interspace 2 above the tail, which 

 is brown with white edging ; terminal line on both wings black. Cilia white. Under- 

 side nearly white, markings indistinct and white. Forewing with a line across the 

 inner end of the cell, continued to the hinder margin, outwardly lined with brownish ; 

 a short line across the outside of the cell, inwardly similarly edged ; each with a 

 white spot above them near the costa, two parallel lines from above vein 7 to vein 3, 

 the inner one outwardly edged, the outer one inwardly, the inner line continued 

 inwardly to the hinder margin, inwardly edged. Hindwing with six somewhat ir- 

 regular lines in pairs, but nearly at equal distances apart, the first three acutely angled 

 and bent towards the abdominal margin ; both wings with terminal black line, a double 

 series of sub-terminal, brown marks on a white band ; those on the hindwing dark 

 brown, the outer series on the hindwing blackish, interrupted in interspace 2 by a 

 large sub-terminal black spot with a black waved line to the anal angle, crowned with 

 orange. Antennae black, with white specks ; head and body grey above, with pale 

 bluish-white pubescence, white beneath. 



Female. Upperside darker than the male. Forewing in some examples with a 

 very broad blackish outer marginal band ; this band varying much in different examples, 

 the ordinary form has a broad blackish apical band, shaped somewhat squarely on its 

 inner side, and narrow down the outer margin, generally with a pale centre. Hindwing 

 with the outer marginal band shaped as in the male, but more pronounced and distinct, 

 the sub-terminal spots black, the line or thin band limiting the narrow white band 

 blackish. Underside as in the male, but the ground colour is dark grey and the lines 

 white and distinct. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — The Nicobar Islands. 



Distribution. — The type came from Kar Nicobar, and is in the Vienna Museum ; 

 we have many examples from Kamorta and Nancowry, and de Niceville records it fj'om 

 Teressa, Trinkut, Katschall, and Great Nicobar. 



JAMIDES ELPIS. 

 Plate 656, figs. 1, ^ , la, ?, lb, ? (Wet-season Brood), Ic, ,J, Id, ?, le, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



Polyommatus elpis, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 654 (1823). 



Lycsena elpis, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 76, pl. i. fig. 4, $ (1828), and pi. 4, figs, lb to e, 



structure of imago (1829). Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 24 (1857). 



Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xix. p. 152 (1876). 

 Lampides elpis, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 1878, p. 833. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, 



p. 52. de Niceville, id. 1889, p. 11, pl. i. figs. 5a, <J, 5b, larva. Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. 



p. 95, pl. 38, figs. 4, (J, 4a, 9 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 226, pl. 21, figs. 25, (J, 



