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upper one largish, touching the second costal spot, the second and third very small and 

 • lark, the fourth rather larger, paler, and shifted inwards, followed by three spots, tin 

 upper one near the costa blackish, the second one in centre of cell, small, dark, with 

 paler central scaling and shifted well inwards, the third larger, paler, with a good deal 

 of paler scaling and shifted slightly outwards ; cell closed by a large pale spot with a 

 double edging, the inner one dark and outer one rather paler than the ground, below 

 which is a smaller similar spot in the lower median angle ; transverse band composed 

 of eight spots, the first large, roundish, and black, with a little central paler scaling, 

 second round, very small, dark, with paler centre, shifted outwards and quite isolated, 

 third quadrate, shifted outwards, fourth right out but not detached, fifth well inwards, 

 sixth well outwards, seventh angular, touching the long eighth spot, shifted well 

 inwards ; all these last six spots are pale, with the double edging of dark and light ; 

 a trace of the submarginal row ; lobe-spot blackish, small, and another small blackish 

 spot on the other side of the tail, slightly edged above with greenish-bronze metallic 

 scales, which also occupy sparingly the intermediate space. 



2 . Upperside : both wings lustrous silvery blue ; primaries with a broad purplish- 

 brown costa and outer margin increasing rapidly towards the apex, and with a large 

 black cell-spot beyond the end of the upper part of the cell ; secondaries with a broad 

 brown costa, narrow outer margin increasing very rapidly from the second median 

 nervule to the anal angle, where it is very broad. Underside like that of the male. 



There is generally in both sexes a light clouding, slightly mauvish, towards the end 

 of the costa in the primaries, and below the subcostal nervule in the secondaries. 

 This species is a very close ally of anunda Hew., and though the blue of the latter 

 sometimes approaches it in shade (the type, however, being quite purplish), it is never 

 so brilliant and morpho-like, and the black costa and outer margins are much 

 narrower, being almost linear usually. The patterns beneath are almost the same, but 

 the two species look quite distinct by the lack in anthelits of the white edging which 

 is so very conspicuous a feature in anunda ; the edging in the former is little paler 

 than the ground-colour, the spots are also smaller in the secondaries, and the transverse 

 band more irregular. Anunda is subject to considerable variation, both as to the tone 

 of blue and as to the underside, which sometimes is very dark indeed, and the pattern 

 is occasionally so enlarged as to become confluent over a large area of the wing. 

 Anthelus, on the other hand, appears to be exceedingly constant in coloration ; it is 

 a very local species, but I imagine not excessively rare in its localities. The shape of 

 the wings is likewise different, being somewhat excavated as to the outer margin of both 

 primaries and secondaries, whilst in anunda they are very full and rounded, and the 

 latter are decidedly more ample. 



