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fn scons mark at anal angle. In both wings, two parallel 

 sub-marginal fuscous lines, the outer continuous and lunu- 

 latecl, the inner broken into small cuneiform marks. 



$. Fuscous; all the ocelli much /ff/v/e?-, but especially 

 those of hindwings ; blue of liindtcings much smaller in 

 extent, and both duller and paler. Foreunng : a minute 

 ocellus usually confluent with the lower edge of upper 

 ocellus, and an imperfect one touching its upper edge. 

 Hindiving : the much-enlarged ocelli have great violaceous 

 centres (often Avith a wdiite dot in the middle), inwardly 

 bordered Avith pink and outwardly with black ; the upper 

 ocellus commonly includes a minute inferior pupil ; above 

 and below the lower ocellus occasionally some black 

 irroration ; blue space not violaceous, not infringing on 

 discoidal cell, and much narroAver in its superior portion ; 

 black pretty evenly occupying almost the basal half of the 

 vAnng. Underside. — As in $, but with the markings 

 (especially ocelli of hindwing) more distinct. 



Cilia Avhitish, A'aried in forcAving Avith fuscous at the 

 extremities of the nervures. 



A very close ally of the South Asiatic J. Orithyia 

 (Linn,), but appearing to differ from it constantly in the 

 particidars noAv to be mentioned. As regards the $, 

 J. Bo'djns has (1st) the narroioer sub-apical bar of the 

 foreioings and the adjacent pale marltinr/s much yelloiver 

 in tint ; and (2nd) the black streak intersecting the loAA'er 

 part of the bar between the 2 ocelli is never Avanting 

 and usually very strongly marked: Avhile (3rd) the fulvous 

 stria3 and rings of the ocelli ai'e Avell pronounced ; (4th) 

 tlie blue of the hindwings, besides being decidedly vio- 

 laceous in tint, occupies a considerably smaller space, 

 being replaced by black in the basi-costal region to a little 

 beyond the branching of the sub-costal nervure; and (5th) 

 the underside colouring is duller and more inclining to 

 argillaceous. The 5 Boopis ])resents similar differences 

 from the ? Orithyia, except that the blue of the hind- 

 Avings, though deeper in tint, is not violaceous, and, 

 though occupying a smaller sjmce (the basal black being 

 considerably broader), the difference in area is not so 

 marked as in the is. 



Compared Avith Orithyia from Ceylon and Southern 

 India (Bangalore), the S of which expands only 1 in. 

 8^ — 11 lin., and the 9 1 in. 9^ lin.— 2 in. 1 lin. 

 Boopis is considerably the larger ; but further Eastward, 

 especially in China, the Asiatic species is fully as lai-gc 



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