8^ DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



exterlore orbiculato lunulee rufie insigni svbj'ecto, interiore minore dblongo lunuld obsoletiore. 

 (Exp. alar. lin. 10-14.) 



Papilio P. R. Damoetes. Fab. Mant. Ins. torn. 2. p. 77. No. 707. 



Hospitatur in Musaeo Domini Banks, nunc in Mus. Soc. Linn. Lond. asservato, cum 

 inscriptione ipsius Fabricii. 



Polyommatus Damoetes. MM. Latr. et Godt. Enc. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. 680. 



Papilio Damoetes. Donov. Ind. Ins. (with a figure.) 



This insect is so near Lyccena Boetica, that it was first introduced into this catalogue as a smaller 

 permanent variety of that species, peculiar to Java; by the examination of the Banksian Cabinet of Insects, 

 however, I have been able to identify it with the specimen described by Fabricius, under the name of Pap. 

 Damoetes, as a native of New Holland. Our insect agrees closely with the specimen here preserved in size 

 and painting ; it is labelled with a ticket in Fabricius' own hand-writing, and his description leaves no doubt 

 as to the subject itself. The specimen is sufficiently perfect to exhibit its real character, the tails only have 

 been lost, and hence it has been described with " entire wings," and arranged in the corresponding section 

 in the Encyclopedic. In many specimens the painting, on both surfaces, agrees with that of Li/c. Boetica, to 

 the minutest particulars ; a shght modification observed in some individuals is exhibited in the Latin descrip- 

 tion. We have, in our museum, four males and one female, perfect in all points. The tails are black and 

 tipt with white. In size, and in the appearance of the upper surface, our insect resembles L^c. Telicanus i 

 the latter forms a natural passage to the following species, in which the catenulated character of the bands 

 is more distinctly exhibited. 



17. Lycjena Kandarpa. AI(B supra mai-is pagitid omni griseo violaceee in certd luce argenteo 



nitentes ; posticce puncto marginali ad basin cavda nigra ; foeminas de hasi ad discum caruleo- 



argenteo nitentes limbis latissimis fuscis, posticce serie ocellorum marginali, ocello ad basin caudm 



saturatiore lunuld rufd cincto, ocellis exterioribus sensim pallidioribus arcubus angustis albis 



intus inductis, ocello interiore oblongo emarginato strigd alba obtecto ; lunula circiter guinque huic 



serie paraHela ad marginem interior em limbi disposita et versus discum puncta aliquot obsokta, 



in arcum : subtils pallidi. grisece strigis tribus marginalibus albis, fasciisque catenulatis satura- 



tioribtts albo marginatis ; strigd exteriore linea nigra marginali paralMd continud obsoletd, 



interioribus duabus undulatis maculas oblongas includentibus, Jasciis anticarum duabus alterd 



discoided brevi, alterd posteriore completd, posticarum fascia anteriore basali tenuiori, secundd 



discoided brevi, tertid submarginali in regione anali ex arcubus interruptis efformatd ; antica 



insuper purwto marginali ad medium casta, posiica punctis duobus costalibus saturatis albo cinctis 



intervalb brevi distinctis ; ocellis analibus quatuor, exteriore ad basin cauda maxima saturatis- 



sima orbiculari postice aureo irrarato, dbrupte truncata, intus et ad latera arcu rufa maxima 



inducto, ocellis interioribus obsoletis angustatis, intimo minuta, intermediis avatis transversis 



caadunatis in maculam renifarmem, penultimo strigd aured ornata, omnibus intus strigd %indulata 



albd et denique tanid rufd obsoletd marginatis.- (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 2-3 lin.) 



Wings above, in the male, pale violet blue, with a rich silvery reflexion, assuming in a certain 



light a dusky grayish shade, the colour being uniformly distributed over the whole surface : 



hinder wings marked exteriorly to the caudal appendage with an ocellate spot of a deep black 



colour, surrounded anteriorly with a pale blue Itinule; a very faint transverse brown marginal 



bar, bordered with white, occupies in some individuals the space between this ocellus and the 



extreme anal angle ; the wings are all surrounded with a delicate black marginal thread and an 



extreme 



