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683. Cyaniris albidisea, Moore. 
C. albidisca, Moore, Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 524, pl. xlviii, fig. 7, male; 7d., Swinhoe, 1. c., 1885, 
Pp. 133, n. 65. 
Hasitat: Nilgiri, Annamalai and Pulni Hills, S. India ; Poona, January (Szwizhoe). 
EXPANSE;: @, 1°25 to 1°40; 9, 1'3 to 1'5 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : “Allied to C. pusfa, Horsfield. MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings witha 
prominent white discal patch. Forewing dark blue, with a narrow black marginal band 
decreasing to a point at posterior angle. Hindwing with a narrow black, slightly macular, 
marginal band. UNDERSIDE, 60/2 wings white, with similarly disposed but more slender and 
less prominent markings than those in C. pusfa.” (Moore, 1. c.) 
C. albidisca appears to be absolutely restricted to the hills of South India. Colonel Swinhoe 
records it from Poona, but his specimens which are now before me appear to me rather to be 
females of C. puspa. C.albidisca is by no means easy to recognise where it and C. puspa occur 
together, as in the Nilgiris, but in the male the white patches on the upperside of both wings are 
better defined, the outer black borders are narrower (as narrow as in the dry-season form of 
C. puspa in Sikkim), and the markings of the underside more attenuated. The female has the 
blue gloss on the upperside less brilliant than in that of C. paspa, and the white patches larger. 
The markings of the underside are more prominent than in the male. I possess C. a/bidisca from 
the Nilgiri and Pulni Hills only ; Colonel Swinhoe possesses a male from the Annamalai Hills. 
684. Cyaniris cyanescens, n. sp. (FRONTISPIECE, FIG. 129 3). 
HABITAT: Nicobar Isles. 
EXPANSE: 6,123 2, 1°1 to 1°3 inches. 
DEscRIPTION: MALE. Nearest to C. jynteana, de Nicéville. UPPERSIDE, both wings differ 
in the blue colour being of a much deeper, richer and more iridescent shade. Forewing with 
the outer black margin somewhat narrower. UNDERSIDE, é0/h wings purer white. Forewing 
with the discal series of spots placed very irregularly ; anteriorly there is a spot, sometimes two, 
placed obliquely, below the costa, then three arranged in a straight line near the outer margin, 
then two placed nearer the base of the wing but arranged obliquely ; the usual marginal mark- 
ings and disco-cellular streak. Aindzwing with the three subbasal spots, the one on the mid- 
dle of the costal margin and the one on the middle of the abdominal margin very distinct and 
black, as are also all the submarginal spots; the usual irregular discal series pale fuscous, a 
marginal series of increasing round -black spots, with an inner lunulated line. FEMALE. 
UPPERSIDE, both wings blackish. Forewing with the disc whitish, glossed with brilliant 
iridescent blue in some lights, a distinct disco-cellular spot. Aindwing, with the costa broadly 
blackish, the disc as in the forewing, a submarginal series of blackish oval spots, inwardly 
defined by a blue then a distinct lunulated blackish line. UNDERSIDE as in the male. 
The late Mr. A. R. de Roepstorff obtained three males and two females of this species on 
Kamorta, one of the Nicobar Isles. 
The figure shows both sides of the type male specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Local race prominens, nov. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing with the blue area more exten- 
sive. Hindwing with the marginal spots much larger and blacker. UNDERSIDE. Hindwing with all 
the markings much larger and more prominent, especially the spot just beyond the middle of the 
costa, and the marginal round spots, which are inwardly defined by a distinct narrow lunulated 
fuscous line ; the discal spots arranged in a regular sinuous band. EXPANSE: @, 1-3 inches, 
A single specimen obtained by Mr, E. H. Man on Little Nicobar. 
685. Cyaniris placida, de N. 
C. placida, de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lii, pt. 2, p. 68, n. 3, pl. i, fig. 8, wale (1883); id., Moore, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 523. pl. xlviii, fig. 5, male ;id., Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth 
series, vol. xvi, p. 334, n. 69 (1885); id., Distant, Rhop Malay., p. 453, n. 4, pl. xliv, fig. 7, made (1886). 
HasitaT: Sikkim ; Khasi Hills ; Sibsagar, Upper Assam; Myitta, Tenasserim Valley 
Penang. 
EXPANSE: 4, I'I to 1°4 inches. 
