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silver inside border to a chocolate-brown and dusky-brown mark ; beyond 

 all these is a postmedial, silver, broken, transverse band of lunules en 

 echelon inwards from very near the costa to just below vein 2 ; a submargi- 

 nal, transverse, perfect series of separated, quadrate, silver spots, six in 

 number, from interspace 1 to costa ; the margin beyond, narrow, very light, 

 the cilia shining light ochreous with the ends broadly chocolate at the ends 

 of the veins. Hind wing : the extreme bases of interspace 7, the cell and 

 interspace \h filled with, each, a chocolate-brown spot, outwardly bordered 

 with silver ; followed closely by a transverse row of three other, subbasal, 

 similar spots in the middle of interspace 7, cell and la, some chocolate 

 suffusion between in interspace \b and above vein 8 ; a russet and brown 

 band, margined with silver enclosing the discocellulars with a complete, 

 transverse, discal band immediately after reaching from costa to vein 2, 

 then sharply recurved to the middle of the inner margin, inside silver, 

 rusty in the middle and bordered outside with diffuse chocolate , then a 

 submarginal, nearly precisely similar, recurved band ; a marginal series of 

 silver, quadrate spots as on the fore-wing, margined with brown more or 

 less ; a tine, silver, anteciliary line followed by finer, brown line ; the 

 cilia as on fore wing. In interspace 2 the terminal markings are replaced 

 by a black-centred blurred brown spot. Thread-like tails at the end of vein 



1, vein 2 and vein 3, the middle one 4*5mm.,the outer less than half that, the 

 other shortest ; all black with white tips. Antennae light brown above, 

 ochreous below, banded white ; the club round, long, black, with orange tip. 

 Palpi black above, ochreous below, with some silver scales on the sides. 

 Head with the vertex and frons russet, the eyes rimmed silver. Thorax 

 and abdomen dark brown, the former with blue hairs in front ; below white ; 

 the legs very longly woolly. — Female. Upperside : pale azure-blue with 

 broad, dark brown borders to the fore wing, the outer decreasing to the 

 tornal angle where it comes to a point; it is quite 3 mm. broad at the 

 apex, the broadest place ; the inside edge is lunulated outwards between 

 the veins. Hind wing : the costa broadly light brown above vein 6 ; the 

 abdominal margin lighter brown ; the outer margin narrower brown 

 with a series of three blackish, blurred, terminal spots in interspaces 



2, 1, ^b, la; all four bordered inside and out by silver lines. Underside : 

 exactly as in the male but much lighter in shade. Expanse : male, 

 26-35 mm ; female, 25-35 mm. 



Laroa. — The shape is more or less normal but somewhat broad and 

 depressed-looking ; the segments well-marked. Head completely hidden, 

 shining light yellow in colour, dark red about the mandibles. Segment 

 2 large, semi-circular in shape, the hinder margin convexly curved 

 backwards so as to encroach upon the length of segments 3, 4, with 

 a dorsal, central, large, shining surface which is slightly convex (instead 

 of flat as in most larvge), the margins slightly thickened and turned 

 up along the free edge ; anal segments sloping, the last broadly and 

 slightly squarely rounded, with a large, shining, slightly pitted, dark- 

 brown depression dorsally-like that of segment 2 : indeed segment 2 and 

 the anal end are very like each other ; hinder margin of segment 13 some- 

 what tumidly raised above this depression : the body between segment 2 

 and segment 12 parallel-sided, the last segment, perhaps, broadest ; organs 

 of segment 13 circular, black, not very easily seen ; the gland of segment 

 12 conspicvious, transverse, triangular-depressed (the section, that is, is 

 triangular). Surface of larva dull, each segment with a lateral transverse 

 line at the lower end of which is the spiracle ; covered with minute, 

 flat-topped (disc-shaped), white, thick tubercles ; some hairs round the 

 free end of anal segment : no others anywhere along the dorsoventral 

 margin. Spiracles small, black, circular, in the bottoms of the lateral. 



