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the costa as far as the subcostal norvure, the apex widely, the outer 

 margin decreasingly black ; a large oval plush-like jet-black patch 

 of androconia at the end of the discoidal cell, outwardly extending just 

 beyond it. Hindwing with the costa and apex broadly fuscous, the 

 abdominal margin broadly pale fuscous, the outer margin with an 

 anteciliary black thread ; the anal lobe fuscous, with faint traces 

 of a few ochreous and blue scales at the middle ; tails fuscous, tipped 

 with white. Underside, loth wings drab or pale slate colour, the 

 disc crossed by a deeper drab narrow line outwardly faintly defined 

 with whitish, Foreioing^ the inner margin broadly paler than the rest 

 of the wing ; the discal line is nearly straight, commences close to 

 the costa and ends on the submedian nervure ; there is a faint trace of 

 a submarginal dark fascia. Hindwing^ the discal line somewhat 

 irregular, posteriorly zigzag and recurved to the abdominal margin ; 

 a rather small ochreous spot close to the margin in the first median 

 interspace, and a similar one on the anal lobe, the latter bears out- 

 wardly a small patch of black and metallic turquoise-blue scales ; 

 the space between the two ochreous spots is faintly irrorated with 

 black and white scales. Thorax above blue. Abdomen above 

 fuscous, beneath drab. Antennce black, very slightly annulated 

 with white, the club beneath ferruginous, at the tip wholly ferru- 

 ginous. Female. Uppeesidb, both wings much paler blue with less 

 gloss than in the male. Foreioing with the base of the costa whitish, 

 no androconal black patch, the apes less broadly black than va the 

 male. Otherwise as in the male. 



On the upperside the male at once reminds one of Hewitson's 

 figure of the male of ** lolaus " isceus^ Hewitson,* which I identify 

 with Britomartis deoboideSj ElweSjf but the blue coloration in that 

 species is of a far paler and duller shade, and the apes of the hind- 

 wing is not broadly black. Mr. Hampson, however, informs me that 

 the blue colour shewn in Hewitson^s figure is incorrect, it should be 

 darker, as in Tajuria longinus, Fabricius. It cannot, however, repre- 

 sent C. culta, as that species has three subcostal nervules to the fore- 

 wing, while '' /." zsceus has only two. On the upperside the female 



* 111. Dium. Lep„ Lycmnidm, Supplement p. 10, Supplement pi. iv, figs. 35, 36, male 

 (1869). 



t Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. ix, p. 306, n, 1 (1895). 



