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underside clayish cinuaiuou, sitU-s of breast more bistre, palpi pale claj'-colour, 

 mostly with a vestige of a white line uear eye, abdomen of 6 varying from creamy 

 bufl' to clay colour. 



6. Winys above : blue-black, basal half of forewing and basal two-tliirds of 



hindwing with a strong blue gloss. Forewing : two series of small pale blue spots ; 



the discal series oblique, consisting of the four spots R' — M'-, often followed by a 

 fifth spot M- — (SM'), spot M'— M- seldom absent, often obliquely halfmoon-shaped, 

 spots R' — R- linear, spot R- — R' rounded, both 1 to 2 mm. from cell, sometimes 

 there is a thin linear sj)ot before R', spot R'— M' more distal, rounded or halfmoon- 

 shaped, postdiscal series complete, upper spot white, mostly larger than the other, 

 the series first convex, then concave, and straight from M' to SM' or internal 

 margin last spot often wanting, spot (SM')— 8M- also often absent ; a complete 

 series of pale ochreous marginal spots, well defined, spots R- — M- transverse, luni- 



form, the others shorter, dot SO* — SO' often vestigial. Hindwing : a postdiscal 



series of seven pale blue spots, all separate, the series biconcave, the second spot 

 farthest from outer margin, distance lu to 14 mm., the last spot closest to margin, 

 spot C — SC" rounded, generally the largest of all, diameter li mm., the other mure 

 or less halfmoon-shaped ; a complete series of submarginal spots, parallel to outer 

 margin, the spots more or less rounded, blue, centred white, white centres of upper 

 spots often absent ; admarginal interstitial spots pale ochraceous, sharply defined, 

 luniform, interrupted or constricted at iuteruervular folds, well separated from one 

 another, often bufiish near veins; edge of wing and fringe huffish white between veins. 



Underside : olive cinnamon, varying a little in the depth of the tints, forewing 



mostly more yellowish than hindwing.-- Forewing : borders of bars bluish white, 



rather thin ; basal cell-bar often vestigial, bar 2 straight, .3 curved, sometimes inter- 

 rupted, often lA mm. broad, bar 4 convex in middle and concave in costal half, 

 upper end sometimes dilated basad along SC, forming a sharp hook ; bar 1) 

 complete ; submedian bars M' — (SM') 1 to 3 mm. distant from one another, bar 

 M' — M'-' just proximal of base of M', seldom distal of it ; median bars R' — R' 

 1 to 2 mm. from cross-veins, not or little thicker than bar D, median bars R^ — SM" 

 in an oblique row, continuous, or almost so, all curved, bars M- — SM- fused to a 

 somewhat 3-shaped mark which often touches posteriorly discal bar M^ — SM- ; 

 discal bars M' — SM- thin, black, regularly arched, the other discal bars vestigial or 

 absent, contiguous with postdiscal interstitial halfmoons of which the posterior ones 

 are well defined and clayish gallstone j-ellow, uppermost white, more rounded, 

 second also often whitish ; postdiscal bars M- — SM- represented by two large black 

 patches which are bordered very pale blue distally, the blue border resembling the 

 number 3, postdiscal patch M' — M- smaller, olive black, more or less indistinctly 

 bordered j)ale blue, the other i)ostdiscal patches vestigial, not or little darker than 

 the ground colour, but often rendered more obvious on account of the paler clayish 

 buff Ijorders ; margin with indistinct clayish buff spots ; cell, submedian interspaces 



and proximal portions of discolours pale clayish wax-yellow. Hindwing : bars 



thinner than on forewing ; basal costal bar not touching PC, \l mm. distant from 

 it, mostly straight, seldom curved and pointing distad ; subbasal costal bar bordering 

 PC joined together with costal submedian bar to form a half-ring ; costal submedian 

 bar in front of subbasal bar C — 8C; cell-bars 2 and 4 mostly joined together 

 behind, as are often subbasal and submedian bars C — SC^ in front ; costal median 

 bar in front of median bar C— SC", which is S-shapcd, or very little more proximal, 

 median bar St,'-— K' arched, li to 3 mm. more proximal than barsj ('— SC", and 



