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blue suffusion, the markings of the underside apparent through 

 transparency. Fore wing : costal margin above vein 12 suffused 

 strongly with blue ; discocellulars with a transverse elongate 

 blackish spot ; a slender anticiliary black line. Hind wing : 

 immaculate except for an anticiliaiy black line as on the fore wing. 

 Cilia of both fore and hind wings dull sullied white with a brownish- 

 black band along their bases. Underside: white with the following 

 black markings : Fore wing : an anticiliary line continued along 

 the costa but not up to the base ; a streak from base passing 

 obliquely to the costa ; an obliquely-placed irregular mark across 

 the cell with a spot below it in interspace 1 ; a curved interrupted 

 band beyond, that consists of a spot in interspace 9 joined to a 

 transverse bar across the discocellulars and detached from it a 

 spot in interspace 2 that coalesces with another in interspace 1 ; 

 following this are four upper discal spots two and two placed 

 obliquely, the lower two often coalescent, a transverse postdiscal 

 more or less macular curved band, and a subterminal trans- 

 verse series of six round equal-sized spots. Hind wing : an 

 obliquely placed basal streak, a row of three spots across the cell, 

 the upper two spots much elongated, a short bar on the disco- 

 cellulars and an elongate, transverse, subcostal spot above it ; four 

 discal spots, the upper four placed obliquely two and two, the lower 

 two transverse, coalescent ; postdiscal band, subterminal transverse 

 series of spots and anticiliary line as 011 the fore wing ; the post- 

 discal band lunular, all or some of the spots of the subterminal 

 series with shining bluish metallic scales. Cilia as on the upper- 

 side ; tail black tipped with white. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen black, the shafts of the antennae ringed with white, the 

 thorax with a little bluish pubescence ; beneath : the palpi, thorax 

 and abdomen white. $ . Upperside : dark brown ; bases of the 

 wings suffused with bluish scales. Fore wing : the transverse 

 discocellular spot as in the J but continued posteriorly by a black 

 spot in interspace 2 coalescent with a similar spot in interspace 1 

 (in some specimens the latter two spots are only seen by transparency 

 from the underside) ; a medial area beyond apex of cell white, 

 crossed by an upper discal, macular, short black band that extends 

 from vein 3 to vein 6 ; the ground-colour over the rest uniform ; 

 on the costal margin there are some pale lines between veins 10, 

 11 and 12, and on the broad terminal margin of ground-colour an 

 obscure transverse macular white line. Hind wing : basal, cellular 

 and discal markings of the underside more or less apparent 

 through transparency ; a postdiscal and a subterminal transverse 

 series of white somewhat quadrate spots, the two series converge 

 and meet anteriorly in interspace 6, the outer of the two is 

 margined by the series of black subterminal spots of the under- 

 side which show through more or less plainly. Cilia of both 

 fore and hind wings and tail at apex of vein 2 of the hind wing as 

 in the d . Underside : similar to that of the d 1 , the ground-colour 

 slightly yellowish, the markings more clearly defined. Antenna?, 

 head, thorax and abdomen as in the <5 

 Eaep. (J $ 22-31 mm. (0-85-1-22*). 



