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C. Male, with the upperside pnre velvety brown, with three series of small spots, usually all bluish-white, 



sometimes irregularly tinged with fulvous ; female with three series of large spots, white, the inner 

 tinged with blue. 



282. D. TUi.LiA, N.-E. India, Burma, Upper Tenasserim. 



D. Male, with the upperside pure velvety brown unspotted. Female with three series of large spots, the 



mediati bluish-white, the discal fulvous below, bluish above, the outer pure fulvous. 



283. D. ZAL, Burma, Malay Peninsula. 



In all the males the hind wing is unmarked or with barely a trace of obsolete spots. In th« 

 females of D. celinde and D. nccko there are more or less obsolete traces of fulvous lunular 

 spots ; in those of D. lepida there are three series of prominent fulvous lunules or marks, and 

 in those of D. tiiUin and D. zal there are tliree complete scries of fulvous spots in continua- 

 tion of those of the forewing. 



The habits of D. iiiUia and D. celinde very much resemble those of the species of the 

 genus Melaiiitis. In Calcutta Mr. de Niceville has found the former not uncommonly 

 throughout the year under bamboo clumps and bushes amongst dry leaves, starting up when dis- 

 turbed, flying a short distance, and then settling again amongst the leaves ; they not unfrequently 

 enter houses. In Sikkim, at low elevations, he found males of D. celinde commonly sucking 

 up moisture from damp spots with their wings folded : when disturbed they fly off into the 

 jungle. The rich indigo blue of the upperside of the male of this species when fresh makes 

 It a very handsome insect on the wing. 



279. Siscophora celinde, stoU. 



Papilio celinde, StoU, Suppl. Cramer, Pap. Ex., pi. xxxvii, figs, i, iA (1790), male ; P. mefutho, Fabricius, 

 Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. i, p. 83, n. 260 (1793) ; id., Donovan, Ins. India, pi. xxx, fig. i (1800) ; P. aristides, 

 Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. i, p. 86, n. 26S (1793) ; Morpho celinde, Godart, Enc. Meth., vol. ix, p. 446, 

 n- i8 (1819) ; M. wenetho, idem, id., n. 20 (1819) ; Discophora celmde, Herrich-Schaffer, Ex. Schmett., figs. 5,6 

 <i55o), wale ; id., Distant, Rhop. Maiay., p. 75, pi. v, figs. la, male ; \\, female (1S82). 



HABITAT : North-East India, Burma, Andaman Isles, Malayana. 



Expanse : <? , 3-4 to 3-8 ; ? , 4-0 to 4-5 inches. 



Description : Male : Upperside dark olivaceous, with deep indigo-blue reflections. 

 Forrudng with a linear discal spot below the first discoidal nervule (in the median series), 

 another beyond it below the second discoidal nervule (in the discal series), and a submargmal 

 series of five spots, all ochraceous. Hindwiug, with the usual patch of raised plush-like 

 scales. Underside reddish ochraceous, with dark brown transverse striae, most numerous 

 on the outer half, a dark brown median fascia across the middle of both tvitigs, and two sub- 

 marginal lunulate lines, the outer indistinct ; the ground-colour between the two irrorated with 



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