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velvety black, inside which in interspaces 1 and 2 is a slender 

 transverse whitish line, with an elongate irregular transverse black 

 spot above it in interspace 1 and a more obscure similar spot in inter- 

 space 2 ; traces of such spots also are present in some specimens 

 in the anterior interspaces. Cilia of both fore and hind wings 

 black ; filamentous tail at apex of vein 2 black tipped with white. 

 Underside : dark chocolate-brown. Fore and hind wings ; trans- 

 versely crossed by the following very slender white lines all more 

 or less broken into short pieces : Fore wing : a short pair one on 

 each side of and parallel to the discocellulars, a pale streak along 

 the discocellulars themselves ; a single line in continuation of the 

 outer of the discocellular lines, extends down to vein 1 ; an upper 

 discal pair of lines that form a more or less catenulated short 

 band extend from the costa to vein 3, the inner line of the two 

 continued to vein 1 ; two more obscure subterminal and a single 

 terminal line, the area enclosed between the subterminal lines and 

 between them and the terminal line darker in the interspaces, 

 giving the appearance of two obscure subterminal lines of spots 

 edged inwardly and outwardly by white lines. Hind wing : 

 crossed by nine very broken and irregular lines ; tracing them from 

 the costa downwards their middle short pieces are found to be 

 shifted outwards and a few are short and not complete, the inner 

 two are posteriorly bent abruptly upwards, the subterminal two 

 are lunular and the terminal line nearly continuous ; posteriorly 

 between the subterminal pair of lines in interspace 1 there is a 

 small black spot inwardly edged with dark ochraceous, and in 

 interspace 2 a much larger round black spot, both black spots are 

 touched with metallic blue scales. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen black, the shafts of the antenna? speckled with white ; 

 beneath : palpi, thorax and abdomen narrowly white down the 

 middle. $ . Similar to the c? generally but with the following 

 differences : Upperside, fore wing : ground-colour fuscous opaque 

 black, not velvety black, blue basal area more restricted and not so 

 deep a blue nor at all metallic. Hind wing : the black costal and 

 terminal margins very much broader, the blue on the basal area 

 consequently much restricted and of the same shade as the blue on 

 the fore wing; terminal margin with a subterminal anteriorly 

 obsolescent series of spots of a shade darker than that of the 

 terminal black area on which they are superposed ; these spots 

 posteriorly more or less distinctly encircled with slender lines of 

 bluish white, anteriorly these lines are almost obsolete. Cilia of 

 both fore and hind wings and the filamentous short tail as in the c? . 

 Underside : similar to that of the c? but the ground-colour generally 

 paler and duller ; the transverse white lines broader and more 

 clearly defined. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the d . 



Exp. 3 $ 34-38 mm. (1-24-1-48"). 



Hab. Peninsular India, but not in the very dry or desert tracts ; 

 Ceylon ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; the Andainans ; extending 

 in the Malayan Subregion to Australia. 



Messrs. Davidson, Bell and Aitken say : " The larva which we 



