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ochreous spots are slightly apparent. Hindwing with a broad violaceous-blue outer- 

 discal fascia, bluest posteriorly, bearing a submarginal row of black conical spots, 

 the outer marginal black band of the wing being complete and entire. Underside 

 more or less dusky, deep reddish-ochreous and black-speckled. Forewing with the 

 posterior half almost black, basal and discal spots paler ochreous, the outer discal 

 and lower marginal spots sometimes slightly pale blue, the subapical spot and its 

 superposed dot bluish-white. Hindwing with the cell and discal spots paler 

 ochreous ; submarginal points black. Body beneath, palpi and legs deep reddish- 

 ochreous ; antennee entirely black to the tip. 



Female. Upperside paler purpurescent-black. Both wings with the cell, basal, 

 and discal spots bluish-white (in some slightly ochreous white), the marginal lunate 

 spots on the forewing and the submarginal and marginal markings bordering the 

 black spots are speckled with pale greyish-blue. Underside brownish-ochreous. 

 Forewing blackish posteriorly, the spots white. Hindwing with the spots pale 

 ochreous. 



Expanse, c? 3^ to '^h^ ? ^h to 4^% inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Assam ; Khasia and Naga Hills. 



Distribution. — A male taken in Sikkim in September, by Mr. Gr. C. Dudgeon, 

 is in the British Museum collection. We also possess a male, taken by Mr. 

 Dudgeon in Bhotan. Mr. L. de Niceville (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 142) states that 

 " it has been recorded from Nepal, and is common in Bhotan, but is very rare in 

 Sikkim." Moller's Sikkim Collection possessed both sexes. " It is very common in 

 Upper Assam, according to Mr. S. E. Peal " ( Butt. Ind. ii. 190). Col. C. Swinhoe 

 gives " Shillong and Cherra Puuji. Very constant in its characteristics, in both 

 sexes, in all the specimens of a long series received " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 284). 

 Mr. P. Crowley possesses it from the Naga Hills. Several specimens of both sexes 

 were obtained by Mr. J. Wood-Mason in Cachar, in July and August, in the forests 

 around Silcui-i, and others on Nemotha Peak in October" (J. A.. S. Beng. 1887, 

 360). 



ADOLIAS CYANIPARDTIS (Plate 215, figs. 1, la, h, ^ ?). 



Symphadra ajanipardus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 613. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. 



p. 190, pi. 21, fig. 96, c? 9 (1886). 

 Adolias Dirtea, Doubledaj and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. pi. 44, fig. 1, 9 • 



Imago. — Male. Upperside velvety purpurescent-black; cilia alternated with 

 white. Forewing with small olive-green ordinary disposed cell and upper discal 

 spots, bluish-white subapical spots — the upper one minute, and a submarginal 

 anteriorly-decreasing row of olivescent- (or bluish)- greeu lunate spots with inter- 



