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white ; terminal, black edging to wing very much broader, broadest at 

 apex, the inner edge diffuse. Hind wing differs from the male as follows : — 



costal margin above vein 6 dusky-black, a postdiscal, transverse series of 



dusky-black, connected lunules often more or less obsolescent ; followed 

 by a series of black spots set in a background of the white ground-colours ; 

 anteciliary line and cilia as in the male. Underside : similar to the male, 

 often yellower or with a fulvous shade ; the markings precisely similar. 

 Antennje, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male : the last joint of the 

 palpi, however, twice as long : as long as the second joint — in the male it 

 is only half as long. Expanse : 28 — 40 mm. 



Dry-season brood. — Male. Upperside: bluish-white, slightly more metallic 

 and shining than in the wet-season specimens. Fore and hind wings : 

 the markings of the underside show through by transparency ; both wings 

 with slender, anteciliary, black threads, edged on the inner side, 

 on the fore wing, by a series of small, black dots (often all coalesced 

 into a narrow band) that posteriorly are more or less obsolete and, 

 in the hind wing, by an ill-defined, white line. Underside: ground- 

 colour variable, greyish-brown to ferruginous-brown. Fore wing : a broad, 

 dark-brown band along the discocellulars ; a postmedial, similar band 

 from costa to vein 3 ; below vein 3 a third band, similar in colour, 

 to vein 1 or beyond, its borders starting, the inner in continua- 

 tion with the inner border of the discocellular band or dislocated to- 

 wards the outer border, the outer edge in continuation of the inner edge of 

 the postmedial band or variously dislocated from it; this band below vein 

 3 having the edges nearly parallel or variously converging, sometimes 

 actually meeting in interspace la ; all three bands edged with white and 

 forming together a rough Y-shaped figure ; these markings superposed on 

 a slightly suilied-white area from the inner margin upwards, replacing the 

 brown ground-colour in varying degree ; above the edges of the two bands, 

 the arms of the Y, are continued to the costa as short, white lines placed 

 often obliquely : terminal markings consist of a pair of transver&e, sub- 

 lunular, subterminal, v^hite lines and a terminal, ill-defined white line, the 

 spaces between these and a generally more or less obsolete anteciliary line 

 darker than the ground-colour. Hind wing: crossed by the following 

 transverse bands of a shade darker than the ground-colour and all edge 

 more or less clearly with white lines, all irregular, broken and dislocated ; 

 a basal and a medial band, the latter band posteriorly carved sharply up- 

 wards and inwards toward the inner margin ; a discal, irregular band of 

 black that bulges outwards in the middle ; terminal markings as on the fore 

 wing but the terminal, white line more or less obsolete ; in interspaces la, 

 1 and 2 are black spots inwardly crowned with orange, the spots in la and 

 1 minute, that in 2 largest. Antennje black, shafts with white rings inter- 

 rupted above and below ; head, thorax and abdomen pale-brown ; thorax 

 and base of abdomen bluish-white. Female — Upperside : ground-colour paler 

 and whiter than in the male, the marking on the vindersides of nome speci- 

 mens more clearly apparent on the upperside by transparency than in the 

 male. Fore wing : a very broad black, terminal margin, broadest at the 

 apex and apical portion of costa of which it occupies about a third, 

 posteriorly it narrows to the tornus. sometimes disappears just before the 

 tornus. Hind wing : As in male but with a postdiscal, transverse, lunular 

 line and a subterminal row of spots dusky-brown. Underside : much as in 

 the male but the transverse, dark-brown bands somewhat straighter. 

 Expanse : 33-40 mm. 



The above description of the dry-season brood is more or less the 

 absolute transcription of Colonel Bingham's Lampides pura, Moore and 

 accurately describes the cold-weather form (generally called the dry- 



