with greyish. Posterior wings with two brownish lines at end of cell, followed by a dark fascia as 

 on anterior wings, but more or less dislocated at the nervuleB, especially between the, first median nervule 

 and the abdominal margin, and duplex near anal angle; two pale brownish subrnargiuiil fascire, a large 

 ochraceous patch containing a black apofc between the Becond and third median nerYttles, and a black spot 

 at anal angle — between these spots is a patch of metallic bluish scales — ; extreme margin black, narrowly 

 bordered on each side with whitish; fringe as on anterior wings. Body above more or less concolorous 

 with wings; beneath greyish; legs greyish, broadly annulated with black. Antennae black, annulated 

 with greyish, the apex castaneons. 



Female. Wings above fuliginous-brown ; both wings with the dark discal fascia beneath more or less 

 distinctly visible above; posterior wings with the anal area pale greyish, traversed by two submarginal 

 fuliginous fascia?, the outermost beyond the secoud median nervule consisting of three large spots, the 

 third at lobe of anal angle : tail-like appendages fuliginous, margined with greyish, Wings beneath as in 

 male, but somewhat paler in hue. 



Exp. wings, <? , 28 to 36 millim ; 2 , 30 to 38 millim. 



Hah. — Continental India; NJiL Bengal, Bikkim, Khaisa Hills,. Cherra Punji (Moore),— Andaman 

 Islands (Wood-Mas. & de NIc). — Burma (Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Penang, Province WeHesley (coll* 

 DisfcO ; Perak (Townsend — coll. God in. & Salv.) ; Sungei Ujong (Durnford — coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pin will — 

 Brit. Mua. ; Biggs — coll. Dist) ; Singapore (Wallace — coll. Godm. & Salv. ; Kerr — coll. Disk), — Nias 

 Island (Kheil). — Java (HoTsf.).— Borneo (Drnce). — Celebes (Snellen) ; Macassar (cotL Hewits.), 



H, ertjlus is probably distributed throughout the Malay Archipelago, and is in all its 

 recorded habitats a moderately abundant species, I have always received the sexes in unequal 

 proportion, male specimens predominating 1 , and Mr. de Niceville, when collecting in Sikkim, in 

 October, 1880, found the " males very common all through the Terai and up to Chunabatti," 

 but "only one female taken/ 1 * It is a species little subject to variation, as is evident from 

 the series from different habitats in my own collection, and, as found in the Andamans, 

 Messrs* Wood-Mason and de Niceville remark, "Absolutely indistinguishable from fresh 

 Sikkim specimens/' t 



2. Hypolycaena etolus, (Tab. XX., fig. 23 s .) 



Initio Ktolm, Fftbricms, Mant. Ins. ii. p. (J6 t n. 620 (1787 \\ Ent. Syat. iii. p. 2G4, n. iiO (171>8 1. 

 AmUitpudia f bolus, Horsf. Cat. Lep. B. I. 0. p, 115. n. Hi- Tiieda B. I.e. t. I, f. [W.U. 

 Myritm Etolu*, Horsf. & Mooro, Cat. Lep. Mus, E.LC, vol, i, [>. 49, n. 82 (1857); Butl. Cat. Pabr. Lep. 

 p. 188, n, 8(1869). 



l!ijl>ohjc<ina Etolw, Hewitg, HI. Diura. Lap. t. 22, f. 19 T 20 (1865); Druce, Proc. ZooL Soc. 1878, p. 861, 

 n, 2 ; Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 649, a, 2 (1877) ; de Nic. J. A. S. Bong, vol, l. 

 pt. 11, p. 50, 105 (1881) ; Kheil, Rhop. der Insel. Niftfl, p. 81, u. 98 (1884). 



IfiffmhjctFHti Ahuim, Hewits, III, Diurn. Lop. p. 51, n, H (1805}. 



Male. Wings above very dark indigo-blue or blackish, base of anterior wings and whole area of posterior 

 wings, excluding apex and two submarginal spots (one between second and tbird median nervules and one 

 at anal angle) pale bluish, with a greyish tinge ; fringe of posterior wings and tail-like appendages greyish, 

 tli e last with a faint central bluish line. Wings beneath very pale bluish, with a greyish tinge; anterior 

 winga with the apical half more or less ochraceous, and with the following darker ochraceous markings: — 

 two short contiguous lines at end of cell, followed by two transverse fascia!, the innermost of which is most 

 distinct ; posterior winga with the apex and two outer waved and dislocated narrow fasciae ochraeeons, 



* J. A. S.Eeng. vol. l. pt ii, p. 63 <I88l). | Ibid. vol. xiix. p. 232 (1880). 



