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The size of the white spots and patches and the extent and 

 brilliancy of the blue sheen in both sexes of this species are very 

 variable. The blue sheen is more prominent in specimens taken in 

 the wet season or from moist climates and is characteristic to a re- 

 markable degree of specimens from Assam. 



Expanse $ 2f" — 3'8". 9 H" — 4=|". 



Larva. — Rich dark brown, head lighter ; armed with 9 longitu- 

 dinal rows of finely branched spines, a single pair of larger spines on 

 the head. 



Food Plant. — Elatostemma cuneaium. 



Plate B, Fig. 7 male, la female. 



H. misippus, L. $. Upperside glossy brownish black. Forewing 

 a broad oval oblique white patch beyond the cell from vein 7 to below 

 vein 3, a subapical white spot. The area round both spots covered 

 with a blue sheen which however is often hardly traceable and is never 

 as brilliant as in the preceding species. Hind wing with a large rounded 

 white patch in the centre surrounded by a blue sheen as in the forewings.. 

 Sometimes traces of a submarginal row of white spots. 



Underside tawny yellow. The basal half of the forewing darker 

 and shading into dark brown along the costa and towards the anal angle,. 

 3 white spots on the upper margin of the cell and one on the costa 

 beyond it, a broad oblique white patch and subapical spot corresponding, 

 to those on the upperside ; a submarginal row of three or four white 

 spots, the spaces between the veins towards margin whitish crossed 

 by brown terminal and subterminal lines. Hindwing crossed by a 

 broad white band, edged with black on the inner margin between 

 veins 7 and 8 and a black quadrate spot towards the middle between 

 the same veins. A white spot surrounded by blackish towards anal 

 angle, vein 16 blackish and a black streak parallel to it from 

 anal angle to near base, a submarginal row of white spot, the spaces 

 between the veins towards margin whitish bounded on either side and 

 crossed by three blackish lines. 



9 Upperside rich chestnut. Forewing with the costal margin, apical: 

 third of the cell and the whole apical third of the wing black, crossed by 

 a white maculate oblique band consisting of 4 more or less distinct 

 quadrate spots between the veins, a small white spot on the costa 

 before it, and a large apical white spot sometimes divided into two 

 or three with a small white dot beneath it. The space between the- 



