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E. Halitherses, except that, in the forewing, the oblique spot at end of the cell is 

 angulated, and of equal width across the cell, but is sometimes slightly broken in its 

 middle ; the transverse discal, submarginal, and marginal markings formed of slender 

 short streaks disposed in pairs between the veins, the lower discal spot smaller, the 

 lengthened streak between the median and submedian is bluish-white, entire in its 

 length, and of nearly equal width throughout. On the hindwingthe basal and discal 

 yellowish-white interspaces are much broader and entirely, or partially, include the 

 upper submarginal elongated marks, the lower submarginal spots being large and 

 bright carmine. Underside. Ground colour blue-black, with markings as on 

 \ipperside, those on the forewing being bluish-white, and those on the hindwino- 

 yellowish-white (but in a Burmese specimen in the collection of Colonel C. H. E. 

 Adamson, the markings on the underside of the hindwing are dull pale testaceous), 

 the hindwing also having the basal interspaces bright carmine. 



Female. Upperside. Ground colour paler blue-black than in the male, with 

 similarly disposed mai'kings of a pale yellowish-white colour, or, in some specimens, 

 of a pale pink-flushed bluish-white. Forewing with all the markings larger and 

 broader, the two basal streaks conjoined, the upper discal and submarginal duplex 

 streaks between the veins also conjoined, the streak below the median and that also 

 below the submedian occupying the entire interspace and being blue-tinted at their 

 base. Hindiving also with broader pale yellowish-white or bluish-white interspaces 

 than in the male, the submarginal spots larger, broader, and all white. Underside 

 as on the upperside, except that the basal interspaces of the hindwing are bright 

 carmine. 



Varieties. — Female. Some specimens have still broader markings on both 

 wings, these markings being either pale-yellowish or bluish-white ; on the hindwings, 

 in some, also the markings are almost all obsolete, the black veins, a separated or 

 connected cluster of speckles on the middle of the three medians and a marginal 

 macular band being the only markings. 



Expanse, c? 2i-o to 2^-0, ? 3 to Sj^ inches. 



Habitat, — Himalayas ; Assam ; S. India ; Burma ; Siam. 



DiSTmBUTiON. — Of this species we possess males from Deyra Dhoon and Nepal, 

 and females (with pale yellowish-white markings) from Deyra Dhoon and N. W. 

 Himalayas ; other females (with bluish-white markings) from Nepal, taken by the 

 late General G. Ramsay, and also from Nowgong, Assam, taken by Mrs. Span. 

 " The Indian Museum, Calcutta, possesses a pair of females taken by Col. Buckley 

 at Masuri, two males from Buxa, Bhotan, one male from Sikkim, a female from 

 Sikkim being in Mr. Otto Moller's collection ; one female from the Thoungyeen 

 forests, Upper Tenasserim, taken by Capt. Bingham, and a female from Trevan- 

 drum, Travancore, In Mr. W. Doherty's collection there are a pair taken in 



