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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 131 four broods in succession ; the butterfly varies very much in and some of those taken in the winter are very diminutive. 48. LAMPIDES ^ELIANUS. Hesperia alianus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 280 (1793). Poona, October, November, and March ; Belgaum, September; Bombay, October. 49. LAMPIDES ALEXIS. Pap. alexis, Stoll. (nee Scop.), Suppl. Cram. pi. 38. figs. 3-3 C (1790). Poona, November to April ; Bombay, November and December. 50. JAMIDES BOCHUS. Pap. bochus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 391. figs. C, D (1782). Poona, November, January, and June; Bombay, October to December. 51. CATOCHRYSOPS STRABO. Hesperia strabo, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1. p. 287 (1793). Lye. kandarpa, Horsf. Cat. Lep. E. I. C. vol. i. p. 82 (1829). Poona, very plentiful all the dry season from October to June ; Bombay, observed in December only. 52. CATOCHRYSOPS CNEJUS. Hesperia cnejus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. v. Suppl. p. 430 (1798). Poona, April to June; Bombay, August to December. 53. CATOCHRYSOPS PATALA. Lye. patala, Kollar, Hug. Kaschm. iv. 2, p. 418 (1848). Poona, November to May. 54. CATOCHRYSOPS HAPALINA. Catochrysops hapalina, Butler, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 148, pi. 24. figs. 2, 3. Poona, January to May. 55. CATOCHRYSOPS THESEUS, n. sp. (Plate IX. fig. 8.) Bombay, October. 6" • Above like C. cnejus, below greyish white ; fringe grey on fore wings, markings greyish brown, marginal line brown, sub-marginal and discal macular lines arranged as in C. hapalina, but the markings broader, the spots running into each other forming two almost clear bands ; hind wing with a subcostal black spot near the base and another below it, a lunular streak at the end of the cell, two black spots on an orange ground near the anal angle ; border greyish brown ; submarginal and discal whorl of markings as in C. cnejus, but darker, broader, and running into each other, almost forming bands : the discal band commencing with a longitudinal sub- 5 9* |