924 
TALICADA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
caeca. 
depu.net a. 
decolor, 
coretas. 
striata. 
pot ysperchi- 
nas. 
ottobonus. 
potanini. 
fischeri. 
kata. 
th yestes. 
filicaudis. 
davidi. 
ion. 
zuthus. 
arcana. 
nyseu.s. 
subanal red beneath but with a distinctly coloured marginal band above, thus answering the spring-form 
polysperchon about in the same way as polysperchinus to argiades. — The more individual aberrations having 
been mentioned in Vol. I (p. 298), such as ab. caeca Aign. (without black dots beneath), or depuncta Hirschke 
(with reduced black dots); decolor Stgr. with dwindling subanal red beneath, and still many others that were 
not denominated, also occur in the Indian forms. —- In coretas O. (? = alcetas Hbn.) the subanal red of the 
hindwing has vanished. — striata Blachier (= elongata Courv.) are specimens with punctiform eye-spots pro¬ 
longed into bows or small stripes, which are rare in parrhasius, but in the East Asiatic hellotia almost just as 
common as in Europeans. Specimens, however, with distinct metallic spots from India (for which it was tried 
to reserve the name tiresias Hoffmgg.) are not before me. — The insignificant larva is green with black dorsal 
and subdorsal lines, a light lateral line and dark stigmata; it lives particularly on species of Trifolium, on the 
similarly coloured leaves of which it is difficult to recognize. The imagines fly rather low on the ground; in 
the tropical districts throughout the year, in the subtropical countries with short intervals, in the temperate 
climate in 2, and farther to the north in but 1 generation. 
E. polysperchinus Fruhst. (153 h,i). The differences from the forms of argiodes and parrhasius have 
already been mentioned in the preceding species; most remarkable is the sharply defined black costal margin 
on the forewing above. - — ottobonus Fruhst. (153 i) shows above a still brighter blue lustre, the black margin 
of the forewing is broader and at the distal margin of the hindwing there are much larger marginal spots. 
E. potanini Alph. (= umbriel Doh.) (153 h, Vol. I, t. 78 b). Also here larger, more northern (pale- 
arctic) specimens are opposed to the smaller southerners being beneath, however, more distinctly marked. 
The range of this species extends from the southern frontier of the eastern palearctic region through South 
and Central China to Tenasserim in Burma on the Malayan Peninsula. 
E. fischeri Ev. (153 h). Also in this species the dark dots beneath are sometimes inclined to join into 
stripes. The species is mostly rather common in the north of Eastern Asia. — It is very easily possible that 
kala Nic., described from the Khasia Hills and known also from Cherra-Punji, is only a southern vicarious 
type of fischeri , although (according to Bingham) there exist distinct differences. Above all, the 3 proximal 
spots, near the base, are in kala much more prominent, although they do not touch each other, as the discal 
and terminal ones in fischeri. Besides kala, like fischeri, exhibits also in the $ a blackish-brown, not blue upper 
surface. We must, moreover, correct here that the figure of the under surface of fischeri in the 1st Volume 
(t. 78 c) does not represent a typical specimen of this species. — thyestes Fruhst. (153 h) may be joined to this 
species as an intensely marked rainy season form, in which the particularly distinct dark clots beneath are 
joined to strigiform chains. 
E. filicaudis Fryer (153 h, and Vol. I, 78 b as filicauda), likewise from Eastern Asia, crosses in Central 
China the northern frontier of the Indo-Australian region, but it does not touch British India anymore. Easily 
discernible from potanini by the transverse spot above the middle of the proximal margin of the forewing being 
situate more proximally. 
E. davidi Pouf, and 
E. ion Leech both cross in Western China the frontier of the Indian region, but they are chiefly pale- 
arctic. As to further particulars we refer to Vol. I, p. 298 and t. 78 b. The same is the case with: 
E. zuthus Leech (Vol. I, t. 78 b) and 
E. arcana Leech (Vol. I, t. 78 c) described from Central China, but likewise crossing the palearctic 
southern frontier in Central China. 
25. Genus : Talieada Mr. 
The genus has been comprehended differently, but it is presumably, most correct to confine it to the 
one species nyseus. A large species, unmistakable, of an enormous range. The broad wings have a very much 
rounded border, and the hindwing exhibits before the anal angle a rather long, straight, small tail. On the 
forewing the somewhat indented proximal margin is remarkable. The insect is not allied to any other Lycaenida ; 
a certain external resemblance, mostly consisting in the spotting beneath and a broad orange band occupying 
more than the anal third of the hindwing and that in certain Luthrodes (which Fruhstorfer takes to be syno¬ 
nymous with the genus Chilades) is certainly only due to convergency. Both sexes are approximately alike; 
the species occurring in India is also distributed across a great part of Africa. The larva lives in the interior 
of fleshy leaves, and the pupa has a great exterior resemblance with the larva. 
T. nyseus Guer. (145 k). Above dark brown with white-speckled fringes and in the $ almost oval, 
in the $ somewhat narrower orange distal band of the hindwing. Under surface almost purely white, forewing 
with a black, hindwing with a yellowish-red distal band enclosing white spots. The typical nyseus flies in Ceylon 
and is common almost on the whole island. According to Staudinger, there occur specimens entirely similar 
to the Indians (without tails?) also in West and East Africa. I met with the species in Southern India (near 
Metupalayan) just as common as in Ceylon (near Colombo, Kandy, Piurdaloya). In specimens from there the 
