DIPSAS. 65 



2. Dipsas Ataxus. Plate XXVI. 6 fig. 6. 



Dipsas Ataxas, Doubhday <J" Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. 74. Horsfield j* Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. 

 Mus. p. 31. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Northern India. 



I 

 3. Dipsas Absolon. Plate XXX. figs. 11, 12. 



Thecla Absolon, Boisduval, MS. 



Upperside. Male. — Gold-green. Anterior wing with the apical half dark brown. 

 Posterior wing with the margins brown. 



Underside rufous-brown. Anterior wing with a large triangular space of orange on the 

 inner margin : a pale bnear rufous spot at the end of the cell : a transverse linear band of 

 white beyond the middle bounded inwardly by rufous-brown, and a submarginal rufous band 

 terminating beyond the middle in two dark brown spots. Posterior wing crossed obliquely at 

 the middle by a linear band of white, taking the form of a V near the anal angle: crossed 

 beyond the middle by a broad rufous band bordered on both sides with indistinct lunular white 

 spots : the black spots near the base of the tail and at the anal angle bordered with orange : 

 the margin white, the fringe rufous. 



Exp. l-£j inch. 



In the Collection of Dr. Boisduval, from India. 



This beautiful species, with the brilliant green of D. Sila and D. Ataxus on the upperside. 

 has on the underside a near resemblance to D. Betuhe. It is from the Collection of Dr. Bois- 

 duval, and has, with his usual generosity, been entrusted to my keeping, with other species of 

 great rarity, to enrich the illustrations of this work. 



4. Dipsas Katura, Hewitson. Plate XXVI. 2 figs. 1, 2. 



Upperside. Female. — Brown. Anterior wing pale blue from the base to the middle, 

 followed by two small spots of orange. Posterior wing rufous-brown. 



Underside. Anterior wing pale rufous-brown : an oblong spot at the end of the cell of 

 darker brown, bordered on both sides with white : a broad white transverse band beyond the 

 middle, also bordered with darker brown : a broad submarginal band of white traversed by an 

 indistinct line of pale brown : the margin dark brown. Posterior wing white, with the base 

 pale rufous-brown ; crossed before the middle by a broad short band of dark brown, with below 

 it a round spot, and near the abdominal margin a lunular spot of the same colour : a small 

 brown spot between the lunular spot and the base of the wing ; crossed beyond the middle by 



