LYCAENOPSIS. By H. Eruhstoreer. 
861 
The following table furnishes a survey over the range of the principal species. 
I n d i a, 
Ceylon 
Malaya n 
Peninsula 
8 um at ra 
Borneo 
J a v a 
akasa 
_ 
akasia 
_ 
akasia 
cardia 
cardia 
cardia 
cardia 
cardia 
lanka 
— 
■ — 
— 
— 
albocoeruleus 
— 
albocoeruleus 
— 
— 
—- 
— 
coalita 
- — 
coalita 
— 
— 
— 
ceyx 
ceyx 
argiolus 
— 
— 
— 
— 
Limbatus 
limbatus 
limbatus 
limbatus 
li rnbatus 
puspa 
puspa 
puspa 
puspa 
puspa 
transpectus 
— 
— 
— 
■— 
marginata 
marginata 
marginata 
■— 
marginata 
musina 
musina 
musina 
musina 
musina 
melaena 
melaena 
melaena 
melaena 
— 
vardhana 
■ — 
— 
■— 
— 
chenelli 
— 
— - 
■— 
■ — 
binghami 
— 
— 
■ — 
•— 
■ — 
camenae 
camenae 
camenae 
camenae 
— 
strophis 
V 
strophis 
V 
— 
cossaea 
cossaea 
cossaea 
cossaea 
-- 
haraldus 
haraldus 
haraldus 
haraldus 
— 
— 
■ quadriplaga 
quadriplaga 
quadriplaga 
—• 
— 
caireus 
catreus ? 
catreus 
-—• 
— 
idamis 
ripte 
— 
■—- 
— 
cor y thus 
shelf ordi 
cyanicornis 
— 
— 
— 
moultoni 
aristinus 
—- 
— 
— 
matanga 
— 
14 species, 
. 
10 species, 
16 species, 
16 species, 
15 species, 
5 endem. 
0 endem. 
2 endem. 
4 endem. 
2 endem. 
Beside the monographies mentioned above, there are two more preliminary works forming the starting 
point for the following combination: Butler, A list of the Species of Cyaniris *), and Fruh'storeer, Neue 
Cyaniris-Rassen und TJebersicht dev bekannten Arten **). Butler knew 60 species which where reduced to 
44 by Chapman ; 3 species established by Butler have proved to be local races. In my work of 1909, 34 new 
local races are mentioned, one of which is now cancelled as synonymous. 4 ,,subspecies“, however, were raised 
to distinct species, but six of the ,,species“ degraded to territorial forms. Of Chapman’s 44 species again 
6 are treated as geographical forms of collective species. In my monography of 1916, altogether 4 new species 
were anatomically founded and 17 local races introduced. — The number of the certain Lycaenopsis known 
till the time when my monography was published, was to be estimated at about 45, but since that time 
several more species have been discovered in Continental India and in the Papuan District, so that we may 
count upon at least 50 species. Niceville ***) provided us with a very precise description of the larva and pupa. 
The former is of a pale light green with two bluish-green dorsal lines from the second to the tenth segments, 
and lives on Prinsepia utilis. Pupa pale brown with a rough upper surface, and irregularly spotted darker 
brown. The early stages of the European species were described bv Seitz in Yol. I, p. 322. Of late the 
highly meritorious T. R. Bell has published the whole metamorphosis of L. puspa j). — Eggs on Cylista 
scariosa, a Leguminosa, where they are singly deposited in the axes of the stalks and bractea of the small 
flower-heads, as long as these are still in the bud. Larva also on the Hiptage madablota (a Combretacea). 
Schleichera trijuga (Sapindaceae). The larva is only occasionally visited by ants. According to Niceville, Lycae¬ 
nopsis are most anywhere found in India except the deserts. — In the exterior parts of the Himalaya one 
or the other species is of a more common occurrence than any other Lycaenid. In Sikkim some species occur 
*) In: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. May 1900, p. Ill to 451. 
**) In: Stett. Ent. Zg. 1910 (Dec. 1909). 
***) Butterfl. India (1890) p. 100. 
t) Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 25, No. 3. p. 431 (15. 1. 1918). 
