LAMPIDES. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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and also occurs in Bali and Lombok; beneath with almost purely white stripes; in eastern specimens these 
stripes beneath are very finely darkened with a whitish grey. The larger specimens belong to the rainy season, 
whilst those of the dry season are distinguished more by their small size than by a different colouring or marking. 
The dark margin of the wings is distinctly broader in the than in the following form. - — eurysthenes Fruhst. eurysthenes. 
(151 e, f) is well reproduced by our figure; the $ distinctly exhibits the submarginal chain of eye-spots on the 
hindwing, and the $ the broadly blackened costal margin of the forewing. From Sumba and Sumbawa. — 
alecto Fldr. in the $ very much resembles eurysthenes ; the $ has a broader black margin, but is otherwise like alerto. 
eurysaces ; from Ceram and Amboina. — lafimargus Snell. (151 f) is characterized by its name. The distal margin latimargus. 
of the wings is in the everywhere 3 mm broad, in the $ still 2 or 3 times as broad black, and even the 
part of the wings not being covered by the black distal marginal band is suffused with a sooty blackish 
grey. South Celebes. — alvenus Fruhst., from Saleyer to the south of Celebes, has a somewhat paler blue ground- alvenus. 
colour than latimargus, the apex of the forewing is more pointed, the under surface more uniformly brownish- 
grey, the submarginal spots not so prominent as there. —■ argentiferus Fruhst. (151 f) is one of the most beautiful argeniife- 
elpis-ioxms ; the A of a very delicate milky light blue, the $ almost entirely blackish-grey with a light blue part rus ‘ 
in the disc of the forewing; from North Celebes. — demefrias Fruhst., probably from Sula-Mangoli or Sula-Besi, demetrias. 
is much smaller than the two preceding forms. Upper surface of the A more bluish-white than silvery blue. 
Forewing with a submarginal nebulous band. Hindwing likewise with a prominent submarginal band, thereby 
resembling thanetus from Nias. — schatzi Fob. is a large, very beautiful form; U with a whitish-blue upper schaizi. 
surface in which the white transverse lines of the under surface faintly show through. Only the fringes and 
a very fine marginal line is dark; before the margin of the hind wing a row of dark dots, of which that before 
the small tail is the largest. Under surface bright doe-coloured grey, the white transverse strokes divided into 
numerous contiguous comma-like spots; in the anal angle a small, metallic green spot proximally surrounded 
by a reddish yellow. Batjan. — cytinus Fruhst. (151 f) is the New Guinea form, the £ above very monotonously cytinus. 
coloured in a wonderful deep azure-blue. From this form described from German New Guinea (Sattelberg) 
Frtjhstoreer separates another form from Central Dutch New Guinea as f. reverdina which is said to be smaller reverdina. 
than cytinus. —- cyta Bsd. finally, described from New Ireland, has a lustrous silvery-blue upper surface; cyta. 
of the marginal row of dots of the hindwing those being nearest to the anal angle are provided with yellow 
and golden green. Otherwise very much like elpis elpis. — Larva greyish, across the dorsum tinted reddish, 
with narrow reddish dorsal and similar subdorsal lines; head small, brown. Lives on various plants, such as 
Kaempferia pandurata etc. and sometimes becomes noxious to the Cardomomae (Elettaria cardamomum) 
on the fruits of which it settles. Pupa similar to that of celeno, of a dingy yellowish-brown marbled with dark 
brown spots being on the dorsum combined in 3 irregular stripes. It was found in the interior of fruits. The 
imagines, as a rule, are much rarer than those of celeno, where they fly together with them; they are fond of shady 
places and seem to occur more perennially. 
L. lucide Nic. This species from Java and Sumatra, which seems not to belong to this genus, is still lucide. 
inserted here by reason of anatomical examinations in Frithstoreer’s Synopsis. The main difference is exhi¬ 
bited beneath, where the whitish transverse strokes are so much widened that the brown interspaces traverse 
the light ground as narrow stripes. The upper surface of the $ being figured by the author may be best com¬ 
pared with that of ageladas (151 g), except that also here the brown undulations beneath show through as 
narrow, somewhat dentate stripes. Apparently rare and only at greater altitudes. 
L. aratuj Gr. (151 d). This species being widely distributed in numerous slightly differing forms 
was described from the Moluccas, presumably from Amboina. The typical <$ is greyish-white with a very faint 
light blue tint; it otherwise resembles the <$ of argentiferus (151 f) above, though it shows a still finer, hair¬ 
like, dark marginal line. The $ also above distinctly shows the white knobbed spots with pointed vertices, 
which are particularly prominent on the under surface and separate the species from all the Lampides having 
so far been dealt with. Known from Amboina as well as from Ceram, Saparua, and Gisser, probably in 
most of the Southern Moluccas. —- ezeon Fruhst. is the form from Banda; smaller, the $$ with a narrower 
black distal margin, the submarginal band of the hindwing, which in typical aratus is so beautifully marked, 
faded and divided into separate spots. — pseudaratus Fruhst. in both sexes shows a similar marking: hindwing 
above with a characteristic marginal band, before the margin itself a row of small black spots. The $ hindwing 
is without the submarginal band which is also absent in single male specimens. Described from Obi. — lunatus 
Nic. (151 d) from the Minahassa (Celebes) is easily recognizable by the $ being above uni-coloured dark brown 
and exhibiting only on the hindwing a chain of fine, white marginal rings; beside the quite brown, figured form, 
however, also specimens being somewhat lighter basally are said to occur. — minthe Fruhst. from the Sula 
Islands occurs in 2 forms; in one the blue distal area is more sharply defined towards the margin, in the other 
the brown submarginal spots of the hindwing beneath show through above. — nausiphanes Fruhst. in the female 
resembles masu- but the submarginal brown moon-spots of the hindwings are higher; from Palawan. — 
adona Drc. from Borneo and the Natuna Islands is recognizable by the brown distal margin being especially 
broad on the forewing. — tryphiodorus Fruhst. (151 cl) has also in the $ above blackish submarginal dots; 
East Java and Lombok. — masu Doh. differs from the similar djampeana Snell, from the Island of Tana- 
Djampea by the latter form, which is also larger, being more extensively white in the distal part of the hind- 
aratus. 
ezeon. 
pseudara¬ 
tus. 
Lunatus. 
minthe. 
nausipha- 
nes. 
adona. 
iryphiodo- 
rus. 
masu. 
djampeana. 
