150 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



greyish, tlie general coloration quite different to that of pirithous. Underside with the 

 colour and markinsfs similar. 



Female. Upperside a much paler and brighter blue than in the male. Forewivg 

 with a broad costal and outer marginal border, the latter with the black suffused 

 inwardly. Hindiving with a suffused blackish costal and apical border and a black 

 outer marginal line, inwardly, broadly suffused with blackish. Underside as in the 

 male, but the ground colour of the forewing is generally much paler, and consequently 

 the markings are more pronounced ; and in some few specimens there are some green 

 speckles near the anal angle. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 2 to 2y^ inches. ■ ■ 



Larva, elongated, oval, depressed, anterior segments scutate ; finely pilose along 

 the sides ; colour green, with dorsal and lateral reddish marks, and an intervening 

 sub-dorsal slender black line ; feeds on Schleichera trijuga. 



Pupa, green ; dorsal segments reddish. (Moore.) 



Habitat. — Andamans, South India, Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Watson records it from Mysore, Davidson and Aitken from 

 Karwar, Comber from Matheran, the type came from South Andamans, the type of 

 jyirama from Ceylon, we have it from Port Blair and from Trincomalee. 



Note. — de Niceville and Bethune-Baker make pirithous and coruscans synonyms 

 to centaurus, but as they can easily be distinguished from centaurus and occur in 

 localities where typical centaurus is not to be found, we are of opinion that they should 

 be kept separate as good local forms ; we have examined many examples of cm-uscans 

 and pirama, and agree with Bethune-Baker that they represent one and the same 

 form. 



ARHOPALA AMANTES. 

 Plate 673, figs. 3, (J , 3a, ? , 3b, ^ , 3c, larva and pupa. • 



AviUypodia amanies, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 4, pi. 2, figs. 2, 3, (J, 1, 9 (1862). 



Arhopala amantes, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 250. de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, iii. p. 239 (1890). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1891, p. 34. Watson, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 35. Betham, id. 1891, p. 180. Mackinnon and de Niceville, 

 id. 1898, p. 382. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 48. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. 1903, p. 42, pi. 4, figs. 11, 11a (genitalia). Hannyngton, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1910, 

 p. 366. 



Arhopala {Amblypodia) amantes, Manders, Trans. Ent Soc. 1890, p. 532. 



Nilasera amantes, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 115, pi. 44, figs. 2a, 2b, <? ; 2, 9 , 2c, larva and pupa 

 (1881). de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 49. 



Nilasera apella, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 429, pi. 40, fig. 4, $ . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purple-blue, shining in certain lights, coloured 

 somewhat like pirithous, but brighter blue, costal and outer marginal line black. 



