98 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CETLON. 



CATAPiECILMA ELEGANS (Plate 39, Fig. 3, 3a). 



Hypochrysops Elegans, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 350, pi. 32, fig. 12. 

 Oatapaecilma Elegans, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. i. p. 548. 



Male. Upperside violet-blue ; both wings with a very narrow violet-brown 

 marginal border : Mndwing with a slender white marginal lunular line and a bluish 

 lunular streak from anal angle ; cilia bluish-white, alternated on the forewing with 

 brown. Female greyish-blue, with broad brown costal and exterior band : hindwing 

 with marginal markings as in male. Underside purplish-grey : forewing with two 

 silver-bordered red spots in the cell, one at its end and another beyond it, two lower 

 discal silver-bordered black spots ; a submarginal and marginal row of silver spots, 

 the submarginal row slightly black-bordered on their outer side, and the marginal 

 row with a small black upper and lower confluent spot, the two series interspaced 

 by straggling parallel black streaks : hindwing with six silver-bordered red spots 

 disposed on the basal area, two transverse discal red bands bordered inwardly by a 

 silver line and outwardly by black streaks ; a marginal silver macular band, the 

 subanal spot black streaked ; tails black tipped with white. Palpi reddish-purple, 

 sides silver-streaked ; legs grey, with red bands ; antennge brown with reddish bands 

 and tip. 



Expanse, $ 1^, ? If inch. 



"Kaudy. Common" {Wade). 



Genus HORAGA. 



Forewing short, triangular ; costa gently arched, apex acute, exterior margin 

 slightly oblique, even ; costal vein recurved ; first subcostal branch emitted at half 

 length of the cell, second at one-third, and third close to the end, fourth from its 

 end ; cell recurved, broad ; discocellulars nearly erect, radial from their middle ; 

 middle median branch from near end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; 

 submedian straight : hindwing short, broad, bluntly oval ; exterior margin uneven, 

 furnished with three slender tails ; costal vein much curved its entire length ; first 

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

 from their middle ; two upper median branches from end of the cell, lower at one- 

 third before the end; submedian slightly curved, internal recurved. Body short, 

 thorax stout; palpi porrect, second joint squamose, slender, extending half beyond 

 the head ; third joint cylindrical, one-third length of second ; legs short ; antennas 

 short, gradually thickening to a pointed club. 



Type, H. Onyx. 



