CATOCHRYSOPS STRABO (Plate 37, Fig. 2, 2a). 



Hesperia Strabo, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 287 (1793). 

 Catochrysops Strabo, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe Lep. p. 88. 

 Lampides Strabo, Butler, Catal. Fabrician Lep. B. M. p. 165. 

 Lyccena Kandarpa, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. p. 82 (1829). 



Male. Upperside lilac-blue, with a very slender black marginal line : hindwing 

 with a distinct black subanal spot. Female brown, with cobalt-blue lower basal and 

 discal areas : forewing with two short lower submarginal indistinct whitish lunular 

 lines: hindwing with two marginal rows of white-bordered blackish lunular spots, 

 the subanal spot very large, blackest and bordered inwardly with red ; an indistinct 

 series of blackish discal spots wdth pale borders. Underside pale greyish-white or 

 brownish-grey : forewing with a white-bordered brownish discocellular band, a discal 

 transverse catenulated band, and two marginal lunular lines, a small black white- 

 bordered spot on costa before the discal band : hindwing with two white-bordered 

 black costal spots, a subcostal, a discocellular, and a discal white-bordered brown 

 catenulated band, the latter abruptly terminating upward on abdominal border ; 

 submarginal lunular Unes ; an indistinct black anal streak and a large prominent 

 black subanal spot, the latter speckled with metallic scales and bordered inwardly 

 with orange-yellow. Tail black, tipped with white ; cilia edged with white. 



Expanse Ir? to l-i\ inch. 



" Colombo, in open and cultivated land" (Hutchison). 

 "Kandy" (Wade). 



CATOCHRYSOPS IITHARGYRIA. 



Lampides Lithargyria, Moore, Anuals of Natural History, 1877, p. 340. 



Male. Upperside greyish silvery-blue : forewing with very narrow marginal 

 mdistinct black border : hindwing with two triangular spots from anal angle, the 

 second largest. Cilia white wnth dusky marginal inner line. Underside white : 

 forewing with a broad greyish-brown spot at end of the cell, a transverse discal 

 catenulated band with a contiguous spot at upper end, a narrower submarginal band, 

 and very indistinct marginal lunules : hindwing with two prominent black costal 

 spots, two greyish-brown subbasal spots, a broad spot at end of the cell, a curved 

 discal macular band, a marginal series of lunular spots enclosed by a broad dentate 

 band, the penultimate spot being black and bordered above with ochreous. Tail 

 black tipped with white. 



Expanse l^V inch. 



Allied to G. Strabo, but of an entirely diiferent colour above and beneath, and 

 the markings of underside all much broader. Also allied to C. platissa, H. S., from 

 Australia. 



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