8g DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



exteriore orbiculato lunula rufce insigni subjecto, interiore minore oblongo lunuld obsoletiore. 

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



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



Hospitatur in Musseo 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 Encyclopedie. In many specimens the painting, on both surfaces, agrees with that of Lye. Boetica, to 

 the minutest particulars ; a slight 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 Lye. Telicanus ; 

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

 is more distinctly exhibited. 



17. Lycjsna Kandarpa. Alee supra maris pagind omni griseo violacece in certd luce argenteo 

 nitentes ; posticce puncto marginali ad basin caudce nigro ; fceminse de basi ad discum carvleo- 

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

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

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

 serie parallels ad marginem interiorem limbi dispositce et versus discum puncta aliquot obsokla, 

 in arcum : subtus pallidi griseo? strigis tribus marginalibus albis, fasciisque catenulatis satura- 

 tioribus albo marginatis ; strigd exteriore linece nigra marginali paralleld continud obsoletd, 

 interioribus duabus undulatis maculas oblongas includentibus, fasciis antkarum duabus altera 

 disooided brevi, altera posteriore completd, posticarum fascia anteriore basali tenuiori, secundd 

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

 insuper puncto marginali ad medium costce, posticce punctis duobus costalibus saturatis albo cinctis 

 intervallo brevi distinctis ; ocellis analibus quatuor, exteriore ad basin caudce maximo saturatis- 

 simo orbiculari postice aureo irrorato, abrupte truncato, intus et ad latera arm rufo maximo 

 inducto, ocellis interioribus obsoletis angustatis, intimo minuto, intermediis ovatis transversis 

 coadunatis in maculam reniformem, penultimo strigd auredornato, omnibus intus strigd mduhOu 

 albd et denique taenia 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 lunule; 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 



