\.Mi;lATO|)IA GROUP OF THE LYC/EN1D.K. 131 



Hah. India (distribution unknown to me) ; Tavoy Valley ; Burma. 



Expanse, d Sz 2 , 42 mm. 

 • (type). Upperside : both wings rather bright purplish blue, dull in a sidelight; 

 primaries with a narrow black costa and broad posterior margin : secondaries with a spot 

 on each side of the tail, which is black, rather long, tipped with white. Underside pale 

 brown, washed with pale pinkish lilac, with darker spots palely edged. Primaries with 

 three increasing cell-spots, the first and second of a narrow-oval shape ; below the second 

 and third are two spots divided by the lower median nervule ; touching the tip of the 

 inner edge of the third cell-spot is another one on the edge of the cell; on the costa. 

 are two small spots, one over the third and the other nearer the second cell-spot ; 

 transverse band composed of seven spots dislocated below the fourth, first spot small, 

 second larger, shifted outwards, third inwards, fourth outwards, fifth well inwards, sixth 

 slightly out, seventh slightly inwards but with an outward inclination ; submarginal 

 row narrow, rather obscure ; submedian area pale. Secondaries with four small basal 

 spots, second and fourth shifted inwards, followed by three larger ones below each 

 other, the second of which is shifted inwards; a large subquadrate spot closes the cell, 

 below which is a small one in the lower median angle, where it joins the lowest nf the 

 series of three spots; transverse band composed of eight spots, the second very large 

 and shifted slightly outwards as to its outer margin, but well inwards as to its inner 

 margin, where it touches the spot closing the cell, third spot shifted well outwards, 

 fourth further out, fifth inwards, sixth outwards, seventh angular spot shifted right 

 inwards and touching the eighth spot (this transverse band has the appearance of a 

 bifurcated band owing to the second spot touching the cell-spot, which is joined to the 

 two spots below, as described); submaro-inal row very obscure; lobe-spot blackish 

 (lobe scarcely developed), and a small blackish spot just beyond the tail well covered 

 with pale bronzy-L r reen scales, which fill up the space between it and the lobe-spot, and 

 also edge the latter one. 



2 . Upperside: both wings brighl rather pale blue, darker in a side light; primaries 

 with very broad costa, broader beyond the cell, outer margins very broad; secondaries 

 with very broad costa and rather less broad outer margin. Under surface exactly as in 

 the male, but the spots are rather larger. 



In describing this insect Hewitson, as he intimates, confused two quite distinct 

 species; fortunately his type male is preserved in the National Collection, and it is 

 distinct from the female in the Hewitson Collection. Colonel Bingham has t^iven a 

 pair to the Museum which he captured in Burma (Tavoy Valley) in .March 1893, so 

 that I am thus enabled to describe the true female. My description of the male is 

 from the original type. The female described with the male by Hewitson is entirely 

 distinct, and I have therefore re-named and re-described it with its correct male under 

 the name hewitsoni. 



