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d . Upperside : both wings brilliant shining metallic emerald-green, with a slightly 

 brassy tint; primaries with costa narrowly and posterior margin somewhat broadly 

 blackish brown ; secondaries with very broad brown margins all round, especially in the 

 anal region ; tail brown, white-tipped. Underside greyish brown, with dark spots palely 

 encircled. Primaries witli three increasing spots in the cell ; beneath the second and 

 third two more spots separated by the lower median nervule ; transverse band 

 composed of seven spots and fractured below the fourth — first spot small, second and 

 third shifted outwards, fourth further out, fifth spot shifted right inwards, followed by 

 two rather long oblique spots ending on the submedian nervure ; submarginal shading 

 obscure ; submedian area paler. .Secondaries with a small spot at the costal base ; 

 four basal spots, the fourth shifted well inwards, followed by three spots, the lowest of 

 which is margined laterally only and is angulated in the centre; cell closed by a 

 longish narrow spot margined laterally only, beneath which is a small triangular spot ; 

 transverse band composed of eight spots margined laterally, the second being the 

 largest and touching the spot closing the cell — the third spot is shifted outwards, 

 but not detached, fourth further out, fifth well inwards, sixth outwards, seventh 

 angular spot well inwards and touching the eighth, which is often almost broken into 

 two spots; submarginal shading very obscure; a dark spot at the anal angle, and 

 a trace of one between the second and lower median nervules, the space between and 

 over which is sparingly filled with green-metallic scales, over which is a pale grey 

 dusting. 



$ . Upperside : both wings brilliant shining pale azure-blue ; primaries with costa 

 broadly blackish brown and increasing to the apex, posterior margin very broadly 

 blackish brown ; secondaries with very broad brown margins all round. Underside as 

 in the male, except that the ground-colour is paler and yellower in the tint of brown. 



Hewitson described the female only. Herr Georg Semper has been kind enough to 

 lend me many of his specimens, and fortunately among them is one male of this species 

 from Java ; it is precisely of the same pattern on the underside as the female of adonias. 

 Hewitson described an insect as grynea likewise from a female, but there is absolutely 

 no difference between the two species. 



The female of this species is very close to ocrida Hew., the uppersides of the females 

 of these two species being almost identical, though the male has a greater expanse of 

 blue in the secondaries : but beneath the difference is greater ; the ground-colour 

 of ocrida is paler and the markings more prominent, and the two transverse bands 

 different ; in the primaries this baud is not completely dislocated as in adonias, and its 

 shape in the secondaries will be readily differentiated from the description. 



I have one female specimen from Mindanao, which I believe to be this insect, 

 otherwise the species appears to be confined to the island of Java. 



