CATOCIIRTSOPS. — POLYOMMATUS. 



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cnejus^ and is of opiuioii that C. thesetcs, Swinhoe, C. ella, C. coutracta, and 

 C. hajjalina, Butler, arc not specifically distinct from that species. 



Generally distributed throughout the Indo-Australian Uegion, its range 

 extending into AVestern China. 



Genus POLYOMMATUS. 



Polyommatus, Latreillej Sonnerat's Buffon, xiv. p. IIG (1805) ; ^Nloore, Lep. Ceyl. i. 

 p. 93 (1881) ; Distant, Kliop. Malay, p. 230 (1884) ; de Niccville, Butt. lud. iii. 

 p. 203 (1890). 



" Poke avixg triangular, costa slightly arched, exterior margin oblique and slightly convex 

 towards tho apex, posterior margin straight ; costal vein extending to half length of wing ; 

 first and second subcostal branches short, first emitted at nearly one half before end of the 

 cell, second at one fifth, third bifid and emitted close to end of the cell, fourth at one half 

 from third, and terminating at the apex, fifth from end of the cell ; discocellulars nearly 

 erect, of equal length, radial from their middle ; cell broad, extending to a little beyond half 

 length of wing ; upper median from end of the cell, middle branch at one fifth and lower at 

 one third before end of the cell ; submedian nearly straight. 



" Hind WING bluntly oval ; furnished with a single slender tail; costal vein much arched from 

 the base ; first subcostal branch curved, emitted at one fourth before end of the cell ; 

 discocellulars very slender, upper slightly concave, radial from their middle ; two upper 

 median branches from end of cell, lower branch at one third before the end ; submedian 

 straight, internal recurved, short. 



*' Body stouter than in Lampkles. 



" Palfii porrcct, long, slender, flattened, fringed beneath. Antennal club stout, grooved. 



'■'Legs slender. 

 " Type P. Ixetlcus." (Moore, I c.) 



Polyommatus boeticus. 



Papilio boeticus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. p. 789 (1767). 



Polyommatus boeticus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 633 (1823) ; Distant, Rhop. Malay. 



p. 230, pi. XX. figs. 8 c?, 1 ? (1884) ; de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 204 (1890). 

 Lyccena hoetica, Lang,, Butt. Eur. p. 99, pi. xxii. fig. 2 (1884) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. 



p. 17, pi. iv. fig. 12 (1886). 



" Male. Wings above pale violaceous ; anterior wings with the costal margin narrowly, and the 

 outer margin more broadly pale fuscous ; posterior wings with the costal and posterior 

 margins pale fuscous, a large black marginal spot between second and third median 

 nervules, and two contiguous smaller black spots at anal angle. Wings beneath pale 

 brownish ochraccous, with the following linear brownish fasciae margined with greyish : — 

 anterior wings with two crossing centre and two near end of cell, two (considerably 

 fractured), crossing wing between end of cell and outer margin, commencing near the fourth 

 subcostal nervulc and terminating at submedian nervure, two submarginal (the innermost 



