LAMPIBIN^. 71 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Ic, $, Id, $, le, $). 



Male and female paler than the Wet-season form, otherwise very similar, Ijut 

 on the underside the colour is paler and greyer and the markings somewhat indistinct. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1^ inches. 



Larva. — Feeds on the flowers and seeds of the cultivated cardamom and also on 

 those of Koempfceria pandurata. It is very similar to that of L. celeno, Cramer, but is 

 of a pink hue, with well-defined stripes of red dorsally and laterally. 



Pupa. — Found inside the fruit, or in the cluster of dead flowers above the fruit ; 

 is smooth and of a dull yellowish-brown, marked with interrupted bands of a darker 

 brown ; in shape it is similar to L. celeno. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Ceylon, Andamans, Nicobars, extending through the 

 Malayan sub-region to Java. A common species. 



JAMIDES KONDULANA. 

 Plate 656, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, $ . 



Lycsena Icondulana, Felder, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. p. 484 (1862); id. Reise, Nov. Lep. 



ii. p. 271, pi. 34, fig. 6, $ (1865). 

 Lampides Icondulana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 588. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 172 



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



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale azure-blue, much as in the Wet-season brood oielpis, 

 but the colour more uniform ; markings similar. Underside greyish chocolate-brown 

 as in elpis, bands formed by white streaks not so sinuous as those in elpis. Forewing 

 with a bar across the end of the cell, continued in an outwardly oblique way to the 

 hinder margin, close to the sub-terminal series, the inner line of the upper part, 

 commencing from the centre of the lower end of the discoidal bar ; a short band of 

 three bars from near the costa (with a small upper, attached spot) to vein 4, a short 

 line in the next interspace, from the centre of the band. Hindwing with an outwardly 

 curved, indistinct antemedial band of conjoined bars, a medial band, commencing 

 with a bar across the end of the cell (a streak above, in the two uppermost interspaces) 

 where it is disjointed, and continued a little inwards, and curves round (not angled) at 

 its lower end to the abdominal margin ; a discal disjointed band from the costa to 

 vein 4, with a streak below in the middle ; both wings with terminal blackish line, 

 sub-terminal white line, and a double row of white lunular marks, interrupted on the 

 hindwing by a large black spot in interspace 2, with a black smaller spot on each side 

 of it, all capped with orange. Cilia grey with a white medial line ; tail black, tipped 

 with white. Antennae black, speckled with white beneath ; head and body blackish 

 above, with blue pubescence, whitish beneath. 



