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precisely as in the c? Cilia of both fore and hind wings white ; 

 a filamentous short tail at apex of vein 2 on the hind wing. 

 Antennae, thorax and abdomen similar to those in the d* . 



Exp. <$ ? 33-35 mm. (1-30-1-38"). 



Hab. Tenasserim. 



755. Lampides pura, Moore, Jown. Linn. Soc., Zool. xxi, 1886, p. 41 ; 

 de N. Suit. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 170, frontispiece, tig. 132, $ dry- 

 season form. 



d . Upperside: bluish white slightly more metallic and shining 

 than in L. celeno. Pore and hind wings : the markings of the 

 underside show through by transparency ; both wings with 

 slender anticiliary black threads, 

 edged obscurely on the inner side 

 on the fore wing by a series of 

 small black dots that posteriorly 

 are more or less obsolete, and on 

 the hind wing by an ill-defined 

 white line. Underside : ground- 

 colour variable, greyish-brown to 

 pale ferruginous - brown. Tore 

 wing : a broad dark brown band 

 Fig. 88. Lampides pura. along the discocellulars ; an upper 



discal slightly curved similar band 



stopping short at vein 3 ; these two bands slightly inclined 

 towards each other ; a transverse band posterior, and similar to 

 these two but more irregular in shape, reaches almost down to the 

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

 which the upper two bands are the arms; these markings are 

 superposed on a slightly sullied white area that replaces the 

 brown ground-colour from the middle of the cell outwards up to 

 the terminal markings and from just above the dorsal margin to 

 the subcostal vein and vein 7, above which there are in succession 

 four obliquely placed, short, subcostal white lines ; terminal 

 markings consist of a pair of transverse, sublunular, subterminal 

 white lines and a terminal straighter similar line : the space between 

 the two subterminal lines and an ill-defined anticiliary line dark 

 brown, darker than the shade of the ground-colour. Hind wing : 

 crossed by the following transverse bands of a shade darker than 

 the ground-colour and irregular, much broken and dislocated : 

 a basal and a medial band both edged on the inner and outer sides 

 by white lines ; the latter band posteriorly curved sharply upwards 

 and inwards towards the dorsum ; a discal irregular band or block 

 that is also inwardly and outwardly edged with white and bulges 

 outwards in the middle ; terminal markings much as on the 

 fore wing but the terminal white line more or less obsolete, 

 clearly defined only in interspaces 1 and 2 ; on the inner side of 

 this line in interspaces 1 a, 1 and 2 are black spots inwardly 

 crowned with ochraceous, the spots in 1 a and 1 minute, geminate, 



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