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round black spots, one in each interspace and a very slender anti- 

 ciliary black line ; cilia on the underside white. Hind wing : also 

 with the following black markings: a minute spot at base, followed 

 by two larger spots one above the other, a sinuous short line 

 011 the discocellulars, and just beyond it a transverse somewhat 

 curved series of four slightly quadrate spots, two subcostal and 

 two posterior ; a discal series of four more spots, the lowest one 

 curved, the next spot round, the next elongate and placed pointing 

 obliquely outwards, lastly the apical spot of the series round ; 

 terminal markings and cilia as on the fore wing. Antennae, head, 

 thorax and abdomen black, the antennae ringed with white and a 

 white line along the inner and outer orbits of the eyes ; beneath : 

 the palpi, thorax and abdomen white. $ . Upperside : brownish 

 black. Fore \ving : from base for a little more than two-thirds of 

 its length and from the posterior half of the discoidal cell to the 

 dorsum white, beautifully glossed with purplish blue at the upper 

 outer corner of the area indicated above, which is pure white. 

 Hind wing : glossed with blue over a broad central area from base 

 to a broad brownish-black terminal border, on the inner margin 

 of which and partially coalescing with it is a transverse series of 

 large round jet-black spots, inwardly narrowly and obscurely 

 margined with bluish white ; this colour at the anterior spots 

 carried as streaks inwards for a short distance. Underside : as in 

 the c? . Antenna?, head, thorax and abdomen also similar. 



Exp. d 1 $ 36-38 mm. (1-42-1-45"). 



Hob. Eecorded so far only from the Nilgiris. 



<>93. Cyaniris albidisca, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 524, pi. 48, fig. 7 d 1 ; 

 Sivmhoe, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 133 ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 103. 



c? $ . Very closely allied to C. pmpa, from which it differs as 

 follows : <S Upperside : dull indigo- blue, not so dark as puspa 

 when looked at from above vertically and with much less refulgent 

 iridescence in an oblique light; the white on both fore and hind wings 

 much more clearly denned, never diffuse and apparently present at all 

 seasons ; on the fore wing the white is limited to the basal portions 

 of interspaces 2 and 3 and does not extend into the cell or above 

 vein 4 ; on the hind wing it occupies the basal half of interspace 6 

 and is strictly bounded by vein 7 above and vein 6 below. The 

 terminal margins of both fore and hind wings with much narrower 

 black edgings than in C. puspa. Underside : differs from that of 

 puspa in the markings, which are smaller and much more delicate; 

 on the fore wing the transverse postdiscal series of abbreviated 

 line-like markings is bisinuate, placed further towards the terminal 

 margin and has the component spots somewhat differently 

 arranged ; on the hind wing also the spots on the disc posteriorly 

 are more regular than in puspa. $ . Upperside : ground-colour 

 and white on disc of wings almost as in puspa, but always both in 

 fore and hind wings more limited, the black costal and terminal 

 margins consequently broader. Underside: the markings as in 



