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two spots much elongated ; a short bar on the discocellulara and an elonr 

 ate, transverse, subcostal spot beyond and above it (sometimes divided 

 into two) ; four discal spots, the upper two placed obliquely two and two 

 (sometimes joined), the lower two transverse, closer in, coalescent : post- 

 discal band, subterminal transverse series of spots and anteciliary line as 

 on the fore wing ; the postdiscal band lunular, all or some of the spots of 

 the subterminal series with shining bluish metallic scales. Cilia as on 

 the upperside ; tail thread-like, black, tipped with white. Eyes smooth. 

 Antennae, head (frons white and black), thorax black, abdomen black with 

 white bands ; the palpi black ; the shafts of the antennee ringed with 

 white, the club orange inside ; the thorax with bluish pubescence ; 

 beneath : the palpi (with the third joint black), thorax and abdomen 

 white. Female — (PI. G., fig. 51a) — Upperside : dark brown ; bases of the 

 wings suffused with bluish scales, inner margin sparsely fringed white. 

 Fore wing : the transverse, discocellular spot as in the male, but continued 

 posteriorly by a black spot in interspace 2 coalescent with a similar spot in 

 interspace 1 (in some specimens the latter two spots are only seen by 

 transparency from the underside) : a medial area beyond apex of cell 

 white, crossed by an upper discal, macular, short, black band that extends 

 from vein 3 to vein 6 ; the ground-colour over the rest uniform ; on the 

 costal margin there are some pale lines between veins 10, 11 and 12, and 

 on the broad terminal margin of ground-colour an obscure, transverse, 

 macular, white line. Hind wing : basal, cellular and discal markings of 

 the underside more or less apparent through transparency ; a postdiscal 

 and a subterminal, transverse series of white, somewhat quadrate spots, 

 the two series converge and meet anteriorly in interspace 6, the outer of 

 the two is margined by the series of black subterminal spots of the under 

 side which show through more or less plainly. Cilia of both fore and 

 hind wings and tail at apex of vein 2 of the hind wing aa in the male. 

 Underside : similar to that of the male, the ground-colour slightly more 

 yellowish, the markings more clearly defined. Antennoe, head, thorax 

 and abdomen as in the male. Expanse : Male and female, 22-31 mm. 



L^gg. — In shape like a turban, circular, the breadth greater than the 

 height, the top flat and even a little concave. The surface is finely sha- 

 greened. covered with little coarse lumps very irregularly, these lumps 

 longer somewhat than broad at the top, the top rounded ; each one con- 

 nected with each surrounding one by a fine, raised ridge ; most of the 

 cells (so to speak) left between the ridges are triangular, some, however, 

 irregularly four or even five-sided ; there are about two rows of these 

 prominences from base to the periphery, of the — top and about 25 

 of them round that periphery — it is difficult to estimate ; on the top 

 the lumps become rapidly lower and finally disappear towards the centre, 

 the lines also joining them becoming finer ; in the absolute centre there 

 is a moderately large more or less circular space showing merely the 

 ground- surface of the egg : shining, shagreened. The cclour of the egg 

 is a light sea-green ; all the prominences and ridges are enamel-white ; 

 all the ridges run up the sides of the prominences to the white, rounded 

 top. B : O. 6 mm. ; H : O. 25 mm. 



Larva. — The larva is like that of Cyaniris puspa : in that it is of the same 

 shape and is covered with little flattened, short, white, stmi- transparent 

 hairs, some of which, where particularly short, are star-topped ; there are 

 two hairs on the centre of dorsum of each segment, one on each side of 

 dorsal line, longer than the rest, cylindrical, curving towards each other 

 and nearly meeting at the points, with a few similar shorter ones in front 

 of them ; as also a fringe of equally long, similar hairs round margin of 

 body. All these hairs are set with minute, appressed bairlets. The 



