96 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



LAMPIDES COKTJSCANS (Plate 36, Fig. 9, 9 a, b). 

 Lampides Coruscans, Moore, Annals Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 341. 



Male. Upperside brilliant glistening cobalt-blue : forewing with very nan^ow 

 black speckle-bordered marginal band : liindwing witli narrow black marginal line 

 and speckled black spots. Cilia black, with whitish outer edge on forewing and inner 

 white line on hindwing. Female fuliginous-black : forewing with greyish-blue basal 

 and discal area : hindwing with greyish-blue lower basal area, a submarginal row of 

 dentate marks, and a marginal row of blue-bordered black spots. Underside pale 

 leaden grey : forewing with two narrow white transverse discal lines, a short upper 

 intermediate streak, a short outer line, a double marginal row of white dentate marks 

 with blackish intermediate space, and marginal line : hindwing with several inter- 

 rupted narrow white transverse lines, a submarginal prominent double dentate line 

 with black intermediate space, and marginal line ; a large subanal ochreous-bordered 

 black spot. 



Expanse li^ inch. 



" Plentiful in the Kottawa forest, Galle. Easy to capture " (Wade). 

 " "Western and Southern Provinces. Plains, in forest land ; during S.W. 

 monsoon, fluttering about bushes in open glades of the forest ; not common " 



(Hutchison). 



Genus TALIGADA. 



Forewing with the costa arched at the base, exterior margin obliquely convex ; 

 first subcostal branch emitted at one-half before end of the cell, ascending to and 

 anastomosing with costal to near its end ; second at one-fifth and third at one-sixth 

 before end of the cell, fourth at beyond half from third and terminating at the apex ; 

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

 cell more than half length of the wing, broad to near the base ; middle median at 

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

 straight : hindwing broadly oval ; furnished with a single slender tail from end of 

 lower median vein ; costal vein much arched from the base ; first subcostal at one- 

 third before end of the cell ; discocellulars shghtly recurved, radial from their middle ; 

 cell not extending to half the wing ; middle median from near end of the cell, lower 

 at more than half before the end ; submedian and internal straight. Body moderate ; 

 palpi porrect, flattened, second joint laxly squamose beneath, third joint long, slender ; 

 legs slender ; antenna! club stout. Allied to Scolitantides. 



Type, T. Nyseus. 



