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LEPIDOPTEPA INDICA. 
CATAPCECILMA ELEGANS. 
Plate 706, figs. 1, $, la, 5 , lb, $, lc, larva and pupa. 
Hypochrysops elegans, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 350, pi. 32, fig. 12, $ . 
Catapoecilma elegans, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 548. Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 98, 
pi. 39, figs. 3, 3a, $ (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 235, pi. 22, fig. 17, (1884), 
Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 282, pi. 96, ? (nec $), (1888). Wood-Mason and de Niceville, 
Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 368, pi. 15, fig. 6, $ . Hampson, id. 1888, p. 358. de Niceville, 
Butt, of India, iii. p. 421, pi. 29, fig. 228, $ (1890); id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 386. 
Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 641. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 305. H. H. Druce, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 612. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Plist. Soc. 1896, 
p. 389, pi. 5, figs. 8, 8a, larva and pupa. Watson, id. 1897, p. 667. Mackinnon and 
de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 388. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 49. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dark violet-blue. Forewing with a black costal line 
and narrow black costal band, with a series of black lunular spots on the outer margin, 
anal spot black, the black spots in the next two interspaces prominent, the anal spot 
and the next one edged on both sides with glistening silvery scales, the other with pale 
bluish-white. Cilia of both wings white with black spots at all the vein ends. 
Underside pale greyish-chocolate, markings darker, chocolate-brown, ornamented with 
brilliant metallic scales, which are blue-green in some lights, silvery-white in others. 
Forewing with several sub-basal spots, a medial transverse band, commencing in a 
curved double form of irregular spots more or less conjoined, which end on the median 
vein outside the cell with a thick streak below the middle of their ends, the streak 
narrowing hindwards to a point in the pale hinder marginal space. A sub-marginal broken 
band, commencing singly from the costa in a similar form, with a thick streak below it, 
like the middle streak and parallel with it; a series of sub-marginal ringed spots. Hind- 
wing with the inner portion suffused with dark chocolate-brown, a number of larger 
sub-basal spots, two bars closing the cell, followed closely by three lines of lunular 
marks and two below the cell bars, a series of small sub-marginal spots, a black anal 
spot and another in the first interspace. All these markings very difficult to describe. 
Antennse black, ringed with white, the club with an orange tip ; head and body above 
and below concolorous with the wings. 
Female, Upperside pale violet. Forewing with broad costal and outer marginal 
black borders, narrowing somewhat on the costa towards the base. Hindwing with 
the costal space broadly blackish, veins blackish, outer margin with blackish spots, a 
white anteciliary line, terminal line black. Cilia of both wings violet, with white tips. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ 1 X 2 X to l x %- inches. 
Larva, feeds on “vkfndaj ” ( Terminalia paniqpblata) , is onisciform, flattened, head 
and tail segments looking very similar; head completely concealed; it is roughish in 
