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lunnlar bands and a marginal line ; a short band also crossing end of the cell ; an 

 anal streak and subanal red-bordered black spot, sparsely speckled with metallic 

 green. 



Expanse \\ to If inch. 



Larva onisciform ; green or violet-brown, with a dark dorsal and lateral black 

 lines. 



Pupa pale violet-brown. 



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



LAMPIDES ELPIS (Plate 38, Fig. 4, 4a). 



Polyommatus EJpis, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 654 (1823). 

 Lyccena Elpis, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mns. E. I. C. p. 76, pi. 1, f. 4. 



Male. Upperside bright glossy cobalt-blue : forewing with an indistinctly 

 defined very slender black marginal band : hindwing with a slender black marginal 

 line, a row of white-bordered black lunular spots, and a very indistinct inner row of 

 similar lunules. Cilia of forewing blackish, of hindwing white edged with black; 

 tail black, tipped with white. Female paler and duller blue : forewing with a broad 

 blackish marginal band angled inward and extending along the costa to its base : 

 hindwing with a marginal row of white-bordered black spots and inner lunular line ; 

 costal border also broadly blackish. Underside pale brownish-grey : forewing crossed 

 by four oblique discal white bands, the two outer shortest and sometimes broken, and 

 three marginal parallel bands : hindwing crossed by five white interrupted bands, the 

 third and fourth angled inward to abdominal margin ; two upper submarginal lunular 

 bands, and a marginal line, a short band also at end of the cell ; an anal streak and a 

 subanal red-bordered black spot, sparsely speckled with metallic green. 



Expanse If to 1|- inch. 



" Central Province. 2000 to 3000 feet elevation, generally in flower-gardens, at 

 any time. Has a quick flight" {Hutchison). 

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



LAMPIDES PSEUDELPIS. 



Lampides Pseudelpis, Butler, Trans. Liun. Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. i. p. 547, pi. 68, fig. 7, 8 (1877-9). 



Upperside of a paler colour than in L. Elpis ; both wings with a black marginal 

 line : hindwing with a white inner marginal line only, no submarginal spots. On the 

 underside the white bands are narrower, more irregular and broken, the two marginal 

 bands more sinuous, the anal black spot larger and less broadly bordered with 

 ochreous. 



Expanse l-fV inch. 



