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c? 2 ' Eyes liairy. J Upperside : purplish blue, with in certain 

 lights a much brighter but paler silvery blue gloss than in 

 L. icarus. Fore and hind wings : terminal margins from very 

 narrow to a width of about one-fifth of the wings dark brown ; 

 discocellulars especially of the fore wing in some specimens with 

 a transverse dark brown spot or short line. Cilia snow-white. 

 Underside : grey, bases of the wings with a dense patch of bluish 

 scales. Fore wing : sometimes with a black spot in the cell and 

 another below it in interspace 1, very often these spots absent; a 

 transverse black spot slenderly encircled with white on the disco- 

 cellulars, and a transverse somewhat sinuate discal series of six 

 similarly-coloured rounded spots beyond ; these are followed by a 

 transverse subterrninal series of dusky spots, sometimes slenderly 

 sometimes broadly encircled with white, and an anticiliary slender 

 black or dusky line. In some specimens a second inner postdiscal 

 row of dusky spots follows the discal markings. These terminal 

 markings vary much in intensity. In many specimens probably 

 from dry arid localities the terminal markings are very faint and 

 ill-defined, the ground-colour towards the terminal margin changing 

 to white, very faintly if at all tinged with grey. Hind wing : a 

 subbasal transverse series of four and a discal strongly curved, 

 almost medially angulate, series of seven black dots widely encircled 

 with white ; discocellular spot white, sometimes transversely 

 traversed by a short black line ; a broad, somewhat diffuse and 

 ill-defined white streak beyond the middle of the discal series, 

 extended in some specimens to the terminal margin. In a few 

 individuals the discocellular white spot and the above-mentioned 

 streak are joined by slender prolongations from the former. 

 Terminal markings, which are often very ill-defined, consist of a 

 transverse, curved, postdiscal series of slender black lunules with 

 or without broad ochraceous outer edgings to each lunule (some- 

 times these ochraceous edgings are very dark and well-defined 

 var. sutleja), and a subterminal series of small dusky spots on a 

 white background followed by an anticiliary slender black line. 

 Cilia of both fore and hind wings prominently white. Antennae 

 black, the shafts ringed with white as usual ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen with purplish-blue pubescence ; beneath : the palpi, 

 thorax and abdomen white. $ . Upperside : very variable ; 

 ground-colour pale to dark brown ; in some specimens almost 

 uniform without terminal markings on either fore or hind wing, 

 only with the bases of the wings darker and more or less irrorated 

 with blue scales ; other specimens however, bear on both fore 

 and hind wings a subterminal more or less incomplete row of 

 ochraceous-red, inwardly conical spots, the number of which vary 

 greatly in var. sutleja, Moore, the fore wing has five of these spots, 

 the hind wing six, the posterior two of which are geminate. In 

 most specimens however, there is an anticiliary dark or black 

 well-marked line on both fore and hind wings. Underside : as in 

 the c?,but the ground-colour much darker, more often a brown of 

 a tint paler than on its upper side, than greyish-brown ; markings 



