Genus EVERES. 

 Everes, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 69 (1816). 



Forewing elongate, triangular ; costa slightly arched at the base, apex rounded, 

 exterior margin slightly oblique and convex, posterior margin long ; costal vein 

 short, bent slightly upward before reaching the costa, and not extending to half 

 length of the margin ; first subcostal branch ascending and anastomosed to costal 

 near its end, second at one-third before end of the cell, third at one-sixth before its 

 end, fourth from one-half length of the third and terminating at the apex, fifth from 

 end of the cell ; discocellulars slightly oblique, radial from their middle ; the middle 

 median emitted at one-sixth before end of the cell, lower at one-half before its end ; 

 submedian slightly recurved : hindwing oval ; with a slender tail from end of lower 

 median vein ; costal vein extending to near apex, arched at the base ; upper 

 discocellular oblique, lower erect, radial from their middle ; cell short ; middle median 

 branch emitted before end of the cell, lower at one-half before its end ; submedian 

 and internal veins straight. Body small, short ; palpi slender, porrect, second joint 

 pointed at its end and clothed with longish scales at its base beneath, third joint 

 long, slender ; legs slender ; antennge with a slender grooved club. 



Type, B. Amyntas Fab. 



EVERES PARRHASIirS (Plate 36, Fig. 7). 



Hesperia Parrhasius, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 289 (1793). 



Lycwna Parrhasius, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Company, p. 86. 



Male. Upperside deep violet-blue, with a narrow brown outer marginal band, 

 the band on the hindwing with black spots slightly bordered with white. Female 

 violet-brown, the lower basal and discal areas more or less greyish-blue : hindwing 

 with a marginal row of white-bordered black spots, the two spots between the median 

 veins bordered with a red inner lunule. Underside greyish-white : forewing with a 

 white-bordered dusky-brown discocellular lunule, an outer discal lunular line, and 

 two marginal lunular lines : hindwing with three black subbasal and an apical spot, 

 a white-bordered dusky-brown discocellular lunule, a discal row of lunules, and a 

 marginal lunular line, the latter enclosing two large subaual black spots bordered 

 with ochreous. 



Expanse, ^ 1, ? \\ inch. 



" Colombo. In open and cultivated land " {Hutchison). 

 " Galle and Kandy. Very common" {Wade). 



