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wings with a broad dark greyish brown liordcr along the costal and outer margins, 

 inner margin narrowlj- brown, the area between which and the snbmedian nervnre 

 is greyish blue. 



Undej'side : both wings dusky brown ; anterior wings crossed ou the disc with 

 an ill-defined darker brown laud widest towards the costal margin gradually 

 narrowing towards the inner margin, and two dusky spots below the cell ; the cell 

 and the space above it nearly to the apex is bright ochraceous, a streak in the cell 

 with four sjjurs reaching to the median uervure, auothor along the subcostal 

 nervnre, a shorter one at the base below the costal margin, a bar at the end of the cell 

 bordered outwardly with black, and six confluent spots between the subcostal uer- 

 vules arranged in pairs and bordered with black, all metallic greenish blue ; there is 

 a pale space before the apex, and a submarginal row of metallic greenish blue spots 

 situate on the inner edge of an ochraceous marginal band. Posterior wings with the 

 costa at its base, and three sinuate bars dark red, the iirst bar is near the liase, the 

 second, which crosses the upper part of the cell, commences on the costal nervure 

 terminating on the inner margin, the third commences on the subcostal nervure just 

 beyond its junction with the first subcostal nervule, crosses the end of the cell and 

 terminates on the snbmedian nervure, with a short spur which extends inwardly 

 along the median nervnre, all the bars narrowly bordered with metallic greenish 

 blue ; there is a dark patch between the costal nervure and subcostal nervules beyond 

 the upper part of the middle bar, an obscure dark red oblong spot beyond the end of 

 the cell bordered on each side with black, and a dark curved band over the disc, 

 widest towards the inner margin, the outer margin is rather broadly ochraceous, on 

 the inner edge of which is a rather broad band of metallic bluish green, narrowly 

 bordered ou each side with black. 



Female. — Upperside : rather paler light blue than the t/irrle, the blue area 

 extending over the whole of the wings except the costal an<l outer margins which 

 are rather broadly greyish brown. 



The underside resembles the male but is rather jialer, and the metallic spots 

 are broader and more developed. 



Expanse of wings : male, 1| inch : J'emalf, \{. 



One tnale and three Jei/mle.i are in the collection ; it is not near any described 

 species. 



180. Hypochrysops arronica Feld. 

 Two specimens are in the collection. 



18T. Hypochrysops theonides sp. no v. 



Female. — Upperside : resembles that sex of H. theon Feld., but the pale area 

 in the middle of the anterior wings is very much more restricted, and the posterior 

 wings are only slightly paler than the rest of the wings above the first subcostal 

 nervule, where the white band of the underside shows indistinctly through the 

 wings. 



Underside : the anterior wings differ from H. theon in a corresponding manner, 

 the pale area not extending so far towards the outer margin, and having a much 

 wider dark outer marginal border, and there is a broad metallic greenish bine 

 patch between the two upper median nervules, which in 11. theon is only represented 

 liy a small spot. On the posterior wings the white Ijsmd which crosses the wings 



