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38. Lampides elpis. 



Folyotnm. e^ns, Godt., Encyclo. M^th. Ins. vol. ix, p. 654. — Lyeaena elpis, Horsfield, 

 opcit. p. 76, pi. 1, fig. 4, ? 3' . 



One female and one male {A. de R. and Moti JRani). 



89. Lampides pandata. 



Lyeaena pandava, Horsfi.eld, op. cit. p. 84, ^ . 

 One female. 



40. Lampides con£. pactolus. 



2 . Wings above much as in L. pactolus, differing in having the dart 

 fuscous outer border of the anterior wing spotless and that of the posterior 

 ■wing very mucli less distinctly marked in the same manner, no discocellular 

 mark in either wing, and the whole upperside apparently more clouded 

 ■with smoky fuscous scales. 



Wings beneath very pale fuscous, with a submarginal fascia composed 

 of rhomboid spots and a marginal one of narrow oval spots fuscous of a 

 rather darker shade than the ground, both margined and connected together 

 by whitish, the latter of them developed, in the interval between the first 

 and second median branches, into a conspicuous jet-black circular spot 

 divided externally by a semicircle of pale blue metallic scales and encircled 

 internally by luteous white, and into two minute ones, one on each side 

 of the submedian vein, internally covered with blue scales. 



Anterior wings with two small 'subcostal spots, a short discocellular 

 fasciole, and a discal fascia strongly faulted at the second median veinlet so 

 that the outer white margin of its posterior portion is in line with that of 

 its anterior portion, and the inner white maigin of its posterior portion in 

 line with the discocellular veinlet. 



Posterior wings with a similar discocellular fasciole, and complexly 

 faulted and contorted discal and basal fasciae ; all the fascite in all the 

 wings margined on both sides with fuscous of a very slightly deeper tint 

 than the ground and with whitish. 



Since the above description was written, we have discovered that 

 five unnamed insects in the Museum from Cherrapunji in the Khasi Hills, 

 the Sikkim Hills, and Sibsagar (S. ^. Peal) in upper Assam are males of 

 this sjDCcies, and the following is a brief description of one of them : — ■ 



S . Wings above semitranslucent palish fuscous with a light and 

 tolerably brilliant amethystine lustre, edged with a darker anteciliary line. 



Wings below much as in the female, with the macular submarginal 

 fuscous fascia of all the wings broader, and the anal and subanal black 

 spots rather lai-ger and conspicuously encircled with fulvous internally. 



