86 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Genus JAMIDES. 



Jamides, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 71 (1816). 



Forewing elongate, triangular ; costa sliglitly arched at base, apex very acute, 

 exterior margin sliglitly oblique and convex, posterior margin long ; costal vein bent 

 upward near its end to the costa, extending to half length of the margin; first 

 subcostal branch short, emitted at nearly one-half before end of the cell and slightly 

 touching the costal at its angle, second branch at one-third before end of the cell, 

 third close to the end, fourth at nearly one-half from third and terminating at the 

 apex, fifth from end of the cell; discocellulars slightly waved, radial from their 

 middle ; cell broad, long, extending to more than half the wing ; middle median 

 branch emitted at one-sixth before end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before the 

 end; submedian straight: hindwing short, triangular, with a slender tail from end 

 of lower median vein ; costal vein arched and extending to apex ; discocellulars 

 slightly oblique, radial from their middle; cell short, broad; middle median branch 

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

 straight, internal recurved. Body slender, short ; palpi porrect, second joint 

 projecting half length beyond the head, clothed with adpressed scales, third joint 

 naked, slender, about half length of second; legs slender; antennge with a thick club, 



JAMIDES BOCHUS (Plate 36, Fig. 8, 8a, $ 9). 



Papilio Boclms, Cramer, Pap. Esot. iv. pi. 391, fig. C, D (1782), $. 



Jamides Bochus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 71 (1816). 



Hesperia Democritus, Fabriciu'^, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 285 (1793), $. 



Hesperia Plato, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 288 (1793), ?. 



Lampides Plato, Butler, Catal. Fabrician Lep. B. M. p. 166, pi. 2, fig. 3, ?. 



Lycmna Nila, Horsfield, Catalogue Lep. Mus. East India Company, p. 78 (1829), $. 



Male. TJpperside : forewing jet-black, lower basal and discal area glittering 

 steel-blue : hindwing glittering steel-blue, with a black marginal line and indistinct 

 anal spots ; abdominal margin jet-black. Cilia black. Female dark fuliginous-brown, 

 the lower basal and discal area of both wings unglossed cobalt-blue ; marginal spots 

 on hmdwing bordered with blue. Underside greyish fuliginous-brown : forewing 

 with two faintly-indicated slender white discocellular streaks, two transverse discal 

 broken lines, two submarginal lunular lines, and a marginal line : hindwing with two 

 subbasal and two discal broken white lines, two submarginal sinuous hues, and a 

 marginal line ; a prominent red-bordered subanal black spot and a slight anal streak, 

 both speckled with metallic-blue scales. 



Expanse Ij inch. 



