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TALICADA NYSEUS (Plate 39, Fig. 1, 1 a, 6). 

 Polyommatus Nyseus, Guerin, Delessert's Voy. Inde, p. 78, pi. 22, fig. 1 (1843). 



Upperside blackish violet-brown : liindwing witli a broad scarlet band occupying 

 the lower two-thirds of the outer area. Cilia spotted with white. Underside white : 

 forewing with a broad black outer band, crossed by two submarginal series of white 

 spots and a marginal lunular line ; a black spot at end of the cell : hindwing with a 

 black basal spot, three subbasal, three medial, and in the female a more or less 

 perfect discal series ; the apex of the wing also black ; lower outer margin broadly 

 scarlet, traversed by a row of white spots and a marginal lunular line, bordered with 

 black dentate marks. Palpi and legs black above, banded with white; antenna 

 annulated with white. 



Expanse 1-| to If inch. 



Larva oniscif orm ; pale olive-yellow, with a slender green dorsal line and a 

 lateral row of black dots. Pupa pale olive-yellow, dotted with black. 



"Feeds on Bryophyllum" (Thwaites). 



" "Western and Central Provinces. Plains and nearly up to 4000 feet ; generally 

 on borders of cultivated ground, apparently all the year round. Flight slow ; flits 

 about low shrubs and settles on the ground " (Hutchison). 



" Kandy and Galle. Common" (Wade). 



Genus CATAP^CILMA. 



Catapcecilma, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. i. p. 547 (1877-9). 



Wings short : forewing triangular, broad ; exterior margin shghtly scalloped ; 

 first subcostal branch emitted at nearly one-haK before end of the cell, free from 

 costal ; second at one-fourth before the end, third fi'om close to the end and 

 terminating at the apex, fourth from end of the cell ; discocellulars erect, slightly 

 waved, radial from their middle ; cell broad at the end ; middle median at one-fifth 

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

 hindwing short ; exterior margin slightly scalloped, abdominal margin long ; furnished 

 with three slender tails in both sexes ; costal vein very convex at the base ; first 

 subcostal branch at one-third before end of the cell ; discocellulars erect, radial from 

 their middle; cell broad; middle median branch from close to end of the cell, lower 

 at nearly one-half before the end; submedian slightly curved, internal much recurved. 

 Body short, stout ; palpi porrect, slender, very flat, second joint projecting more than 

 half length beyond the head, pilose beneath, third joint slender; legs short; antennse 

 with a gradually formed slender club. 



Type, C. Elegans. 



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