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SECT. II. The fore wing longer ; veins 4 and 5 stalked : and 

 the veinlet in the cell generally forked. 



567. Chalcosia affinis, Gufr. Voy. Deless. Hist. Nat. p. 86, pi. 24, 

 fig. 2 ; C. $ S. no. 407 ; Moore, Lep. CeyL ii, pi. 98, fig. L>. 



Differs from myrrhina in the whole basal half of the fore wing 

 being metallic green, sometimes with a bronzy tint, and with black 

 marks before the pale band ; black streaks in the interspaces of 

 the apical area. Hind wing with the apex black shot with blue. 



Ilab. Western Ghats ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Evp. 50 millim. 



568. Chalcosia COmsca, Boisd. Herr.-Schiiffer, Samml. aussercur. 



Schmett. pi. i, fig. 1 ; C. $ S. DO. 410. 

 Chalcosia zuleika, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 428 ; C. # S. no. 416. 



Differs from affinis in the basal area of the fore wing being 

 golden green, traversed by an orange band bordered by blue-black 

 on each side, this basal area terminating in a blue-black ccli;t> ; the 

 subapical spots obsolete. Hind wing with a larger apical blue- 

 black patch. 



The hind wing is sometimes pure white. 



Hab. Sikhim; Khasis ; Assam. E>vp., 3 50, $ 60 millim. 



569. Chalcosia thallo, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 756. 



Chalcosia pectinicomis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 807 ; C. Sf S. no. 411. 

 Chalcosia tiberina, Cram. Pap. Exot. i, p. ">!', pi. 32 C, D. 

 Chalcosia quadrifasciata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p. 45, pi. 96, ii-. ") ; 



C. 8f S. no. 413. 

 Chalcosia venosa, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 422 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, pi. 97, 



figs. 2, 2 a ; C. $ S. no. 405. 

 Chalco.sia similata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p. 45, pi. 97, figs. 3, 3: 



C. 4r & no. 414. 

 Milleria zehma, Boisd. Herr.-Schiiffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. 



p. 78, pi. i, fig. 3 ; C.SfS. no. 415. 



Differs from affinis in being bluer. The fore wing may have 

 the basal area entirely blue-green with black spots, or there may 

 be a large white or pale yellow patch below the cell and along the 

 inner margin ; the median band is white or pale yellow, and broad 

 and irregular, or reduced to a series of irregularly placed spots ; 

 the veins of the apical area are more narrowly green than in affnis ; 

 the subapical spots are sometimes prominent, sometimes completely 

 obsolete. Hind wing white or pale yellow, with a black irregular 

 marginal border shot with blue, which colour sometimes extends up 

 below the cell to the base, reducing the white area to a patch 

 beyond the cell ; sometimes the blue-black colour is entirely 

 wanting, except for a small subapical spot, and all the intermediat e 

 stages seem to occur irrespective of locality. 



Pectinicomis is the darkest form, with the base of fore wing 



