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Male with the upper surface pale, pure, metallic blue ; the cilia 

 fuscous, which colour extends very slightly along some of the nervures 

 and the anterior margin of all the wings. Beneath rather dark ash 

 colour ; anterior wings with a small subocellated black spot near the 

 base, a somewhat reniform black discoidal spot edged with white, and 

 near the outer margin six large black spots likewise surrounded with 

 white, of which the one nearest the anal angle is duplex, and placed 

 immediately below the fifth. This and the four preceding ones form 

 a curved line, the third being nearest the outer margin. Posterior 

 wings with two small black dots near the base, and an elongate one 

 in the disk, all surrounded by a slender white margin. Beyond these, 

 near the outer margin, are eight similarly margined rather large black 

 spots, placed so as to form a tortuous line, slightly broken after the 

 second and sixth dot. The two first are nearly continuous with, though 

 a little more internal than, the series on the anterior wings ; the third, 

 fourth, fifth and sixth, form a line curving outwards, the fourth being 

 nearest to, the sixth, most distant from the outer margin ; the seventh, 

 a little removed from the sixth, aiDproximates closely to the eighth, 

 which is much smaller. Just above the anal angle is another black 

 dot margined internally with white. Cilia nearly of the same hue as 

 the ground colour of the wings. 



Female with the upper surface above fuscous, more or less shaded 

 with blue at the base, the blue sometimes extending far over the disk. 

 Below as in the male. 



In the position of the ocelli this species closely resembles P. Acis 

 and Damoetas, to which it is in fact nearly allied. It may be easily 

 distinguished however from these by the pure blue of the upper sur- 

 face, which has a decidedly metallic lustre, and by the fuscous cilia. 

 The ground colour of the under surface is much darker than either of 

 the above-named species ; the ocelli are three or four times as large 

 as in either species, and there is no trace of the blue shading at the 

 base of the wings, so very distinct in those species, especially in P. 

 Damaetas. With this Abbot confounded it, as is evident from the 

 following note appended to the drawings in the British Museum, fi-om 

 which I first learned the existence of this species : — " No. 44. Pap. 



. Taken 4th March. It is a female of 179 and 180, see next 



page, and is much more rare than the male." "No. 179 and 180. 

 Pap. Erebus.* Taken 21st March in pine woods, very rare. It flies 

 very swiftly. The female has a broader border of black. This is the 



* P. Erehns, Fah. = P. DamEetas, Huh. 



