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black, minute and very slender. Fore wing : a short discocellular 

 line followed by an anteriorly, strongly curved, discal series of 

 very short detached lines and a more or less obsolescent trans- 

 verse series of subterminal dots. Hind wing : three subbasal 

 dots in transverse order ; a short line on the discocellulars ; a 

 spot below the middle of the costa with a smaller spot below it ; 

 a posterior discal irregular sinuous series of five or six minute 

 spots and a perfectly regular subterminal series of similar spots. 

 Cilia of both fore and hind wings white. Antennas, head, thorax 

 and abdomen blackish, the antennae ringed with white ; beneath : 

 the palpi, thorax and abdomen snow-white. $. Very similar. 

 Upperside : the white area much more extended on both fore and 

 hind wings. On the former it spreads well into the cell, on the 

 latter three-fourths of the wing are white ; the dusky basal and 

 costal areas much more restricted than in the 3 . The iridescent 

 blue suffusion is in many specimens entirely absent, in a few very 

 faintly indicated ; the subterminal series of black dots so distinct; 

 in the 3 are generally faint and obsolescent. Underside : as in 

 the c? but the markings less distinct. Antenna?, head, thorax 

 and abdomen as in the rf . 



Exp. rf $ 28-29 mm. (MO-1-14"). 



Hob. Southern India : Nilgiri, Anaimalai and Palni Hills ; 

 Ceylon ; extending to Java. 



687. Cyaniris marginata, de N., J. A. S. B. 1883, p. 70, pi. 1, 

 fig. 9 d ; Moore P. Z. 8. 1883, p. 523, pi. 48, fig. 6 rf : Doherty, 

 J. A. S. B. 1886, p. 134 ; de N. Butt. Ind, in, 1890, p.' 96. 



Wet-season brood. d" . Upperside : black. Fore wing : a 

 posterior, medial, somewhat triangular area rich iridescent blue ; 

 the outer margin of this area passes from base through the middle 

 of the cell to a little beyond the apex of the latter, then curves 

 sharply round ana is continued obliquely to the dorsum at about 

 two-thirds of the distance from base to tornus ; outwardly this 

 area is pure white, the discocellulars marked with a slender black 

 tooth. Hind wing : with a similar but more sharply triangular 

 and somewhat dusky blue area limited by the broad black border 

 on the costal margin that occupies fully the anterior third of the 

 wing, is curved sharply round at the apex and forms a somewhat 

 narrower border to the termen ; posteriorly the dorsum is still more 

 narrowly duskv black ; superposed on the terminal black border 

 is a curved series of small bluish lunules, each lunule outwardly 

 margined by an intense black spot of a shade darker than the 

 black along the termen. Underside : white with a faint bluish 

 tint. Fore wing : with the following fuscous-black markings : a 

 line on the discocellulars, a transverse outer discal series of spots or 

 short bars one in each interspace, the spot in interspace 3 pointing 

 obliquely outwards, that in interspace 4 still more oblique, forms 

 an angle with the one above it, lastly the spot in interspace 6 

 shifted well inwards ; a postdiscal slightly curved line of trans- 

 verse lunules, succeeded by a subterminal series of spots and a 

 very slender anticiliary line. Hind wing : a black spot close to 



