334 LTC-i:NID.E. 
Jamides boclius. 
Piqnlio bochus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 210, pi. cccxci. figs. C, D, <J (1782). 
Jamides bochus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 71 (1816) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 85, 
pi. xxsvi. figs. 8 cJ, Sfl ? (1881) ; Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 222, pi. xxi. figs. 19 S , 
16 ? (1884) ; de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 157 (1890). 
" Male. Wings above bright metallic blue ; anterior wings (excepting a basal space occupying 
the lower half of wing beneath cell, and not extending beyond extremity of cell) black ; 
posterior wings with the costal, outer and abdominal margins black, and with some 
indistinct anal angular spots. "Wings beneath pale brownish ; anterior wings crossed on 
outer half by two series of greyish linear fascioe, which terminate near the upper median 
nervule, and are then continued by a third series which commences between them and 
terminates near inner margin, and with a marginal and two submarginal series of greyish 
linear fasciae. Posterior wings with two series of irregular and broken greyish linear fasciae, 
which are apparently arranged in subbasal and discal series ; a third series beyond disk ; two 
submarginal waved linear faseias aud a narrow marginal fascia of the same colour ; a large 
black marginal spot bordered with reddish ochraceous between the first and second median 
nervules, and a smaller spot of the same colour irrorated with bluish scales at anal angle. 
Body above and beneath more or less concolorous with wings. 
■" Female, Wings above bright but non-mctallic bine ; anterior wing with the costal and outer 
margins broadly (broadest at apex) blackish ; posterior wings with the costal and abdominal 
margins fuscous, the posterior margin narrowly black, with two submarginal waved fuscous 
linear fascite, and a large marginal black spot inwardly bordered with bluish between second 
and third median nervules. Wings beneath paler in hue, but marked as in male. 
" Exp. wings, cJ 22-27 millim., $ 28-32 millim." {Distant, 1. c.) 
I have one specimen of each, sex from Chang-yaug, Central China, and 
these are almost identical with some Sikkim examples, and agree mth 
IVIr. Distant's description of the species. 
Eefemng to Jamides bochus, ISIr. de Niceville says : — " As regards coloration 
the male of this species is perhaps the most lovely of the Indian ' blues,' 
its brilliancy rivaUiug some of the South-American species of Morpho. 
It is a common and widely distributed species, occumng all along the low 
outer valleys of the Himalayas, but not in the desert region of Sind, throughout 
continental and peninsular India, in Ceylon, the Andaman Isles, and on 
Kamorta, Nankowri, Katschall, Trinkutt, Teressa, and Great Nicobar Islands, 
in Assam, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Formosa, and 
Australia. In Ceylon, Mr. Hutchison states that it ' has a quick flight, 
darting from point to point among hedges on the roadside, and settling on 
the leaves.' This I can confirm ; in Calcutta it seems invariably to frequent 
trees and bushes, and always settles with closed wings. As it flashes past 
and suddenly settles on a leaf with its dull-coloui-ed underside exposed, the 
disappearance of such a brilliant little object is somewhat startling." 
