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on the upperside and in the width, and more or less in the 

 arrangement also of the transverse white lines that cross the 

 wings. 



Typical <3 . Upperside: deep purplish-brown with a curious 

 minutely granular roughened appearance ; in certain lights the 

 purple shines with iridescent blue tints. Pore and hind wings : 

 uniform ; both with slender anticiliary black lines ; on the hind 

 wing the black spots on the tornal angle on the underside show 

 through by transparency. Cilia brownish ; filamentous tail at 

 apex of vein 2 on the hind wing black tipped with white. Under- 

 side : brown with a slight silky lustre. Fore and hind wings : 

 with the following transverse, more or less broken, slender, dull 

 whitish bands : two short bands, one on either side of the disco- 

 cellulars ; a discal pair, the posterior portion below vein 3 shifted 

 inwards, thus forming the stem of a rough Y-shaped figure of 

 which the pair of bauds along the discocellulars and the anterior 

 portion of the discal two bands may be said to form the branches ; 

 beyond these are an inner and an outer subterminal lunular line, 

 a terminal very slender more continuous line and a jet-black 

 anticiliary line ; all these markings faint or obsolescent along the 

 costa. Hind wing : a subbasal pair of similar, dull whitish slender 

 bands or interrupted lines, two shorter ones, one on either side 

 of the discocellulars, and a much curved and very much interrupted 

 pair of discal lines, the portion of which below vein 3 is shifted 

 inwards as on the fore wing ; terminal markings much as on the 

 fore wing but ending at vein 3, posterior to which in inter- 

 space 2 is a large round black spot, in interspace 1 a smaller black 

 spot, both spots crowned inwardly with ochraceous and edged 

 outwardly with white, also both black spots are sprinkled on their 

 outer edges with metallic blue scales. Antenna?, head, thorax 

 and abdomen dark brown, a little purplish on the thorax; beneath: 

 the palpi white mixed with black hairs that form a stiff fringe ; 

 thorax and abdomen brownish white. Typical $. Upperside: 

 dark brown. Fore and hind wings posteriorly for two-thirds of 

 their length glossed with iridescent purplish-blue. Underside : 

 similar to that of the J , the markings more clearly defined. 

 Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen as in the c? , but the shafts of 

 the antennae speckled with white. 

 Exp. c? ? 30-33 mm. (1-16-1-30"). 



Hob. Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Southern India : the Nilgiris ; Ceylon : 

 Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Andamans ; Nicobars ; extending 

 into the Malayan Subregion as far as Australia. 



Specimens which may belong to wet-season broods differ as 

 follows: 6 Upperside: ground-colour darker. Underside: 

 ground-colour fuscous brown, much darker than in the 

 typical form, the transverse white lines or bands further 

 apart, the space enclosed between the discocellular pair and 

 between the discal pair darker than the ground-colour. On 

 the hind wing the white lines are medially interrupted by a 

 verv broad longitudinal fuscous-black streak that extends from 



