IIHQPA LOG EE A MALA YA XA . 



nemiles, between which and the narrow black margin is a slightly undulating white line, tail-lilte 

 appendages * blackish, with their apices white ; fringe of both wingB fuscous, the tips greyish-white. 

 Wings beneath pale greyish -brown, with the following narrow greyish-white linear fasciae arranged in 

 pairs, find between which the colour is distinctly darker: — anterior wings with two disco cellular at 

 end of fell, followed outwardly by two crossing wing from near fourth subcostal nervule, which are 

 abruptly broken and deflected inwardly beneath both the middle and lower median nervules, two broad 

 submarginal and one narrow marginal ; posterior wings with two disco-cellular at end of cell, two 

 crossing wing broken and deflected at the lower subcostal and median nervules, two lunulated and 

 submargina] and one straight marginal, the last coalescing with the outer submarginal and thus 

 enclosing a series of dark spots, a large black marginal spot with a few greenish scales between the 

 second and third median nervules and some smaller spots of the same colour at anal angle \ theBe Bpots 

 inwardly margined with reddish -ochraceous, which colour is also slightly continued between the first and 

 second median nervules, five black spots surrounded with greyish-white, situate two between the costal 

 nervure, one in cell, one between the bases of the third median nervule and eubmedian nervure, and one 

 (smaller) near base of abdominal margin. Body and lega more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. I do not at present know this sex. Mr. Moore has thus described + a female Ceylonese 

 specimen: — "violet-brown, with the lower basal and discal areas glossy lavender -blue ; hind wing with a 

 marginal row of white-bordered black spots, and bluish-white inner lunular line, the penultimate spot 

 red -bordered." 



Exp, wings, J , 80 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; N.E. Himalaya (coll. Diet.). — Ceylon (Thwaites). — Malay Peninsula; 

 Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.}. — Java (coll. Ilorsf,) ; Eautam (coll. Dist.), 



The larva is figured in Moore's 4 Lep. Ceyl.,'; from a drawing of the Bros, de Alwis, 

 and is thus described : S — "Larva onisciform; greenish or violet-brown above, with a dorsal 

 darker brown line and white spots, and a yellow lateral line," £ 



" Papa violet-brown, thick, head truncate." 



''Freds on Cftnid(tcm\\ (Thwaites)." 



Genus LAMPIDES. 



Lampulm, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 70 (1816) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 94 (1881). 



This genus is closely allied to Cataehnjsaps, and only or principally differs in having the first 

 subcostal nervule of the anterior wings emitted beyond the middle of the cell; the third and fourth 

 subcostal nervules bifurcating about midway between the end of cell and apex of wing. In Lampides, also, 

 the first subcostal nervule is well removed from the costal nervure at its base, and is then suddenly and 

 somewhat broadly connected with that nervure by a transverse spur. 



This is a widely distributed genus, its area probably con terrain able with that of Catochnjsops. 



L Lampides elpis. (Tab. XXI., rig. 25 s and 26 9, 

 l J ohjommat\a Elpis, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 064, n. 125 (1823). 



Lffntna Mpvt, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I. 0. p. 76, n. 11, t. 1, f . 4 (1828) ; Horsf. & Moore, Oat. Lop. Mua. 

 E. L C. p. 24, n. 18 (1857); Siicll. Tijd. Eat, six. p. 152, n. 44 (1876). 



Lampides elpis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 8B8 ; Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 95, t. 88, f. 4, 4<i (1881) ; Wood- 

 Mas. & de Nic. J. A. S, B. vol. xlix. p. 280, n. 88 (.1880) ; de Nic. ibid. vol. l. p. 52, n. 44 (1881). 



* Mutilated in the specimen figured. | Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 92. J T, 87, lib* § Vol. L p. 92. 



|| Mr. Grant Allen consul? re the cycada, " whose iiitlorescanca is the very simplest of nil known flowering plants," as a 

 good example of the existing GyuinoHporrafl, which "may bo regarded as living survivors of n great class, once dominant, but 

 now nearly extinct; and their nowers probahly still preserve for us the original type of all blooms, very slightly altered by 

 time and ciromuatances " ( l The Culonra of Flo wow, ' p. 0). 



