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faint bluish tinge. Pore wing brown strongly suflTused with steel- 

 blue, the androconia on inner area fuscous brown ; a slight sinuous 

 dark antemedial line from costa to median nervure ; a large whorl- 

 shaped discoidal mark, defined by black, the inner part of centre 

 with inverted comma-shaped dull red mark with bilobate head 

 defined by silvery blue, the outer part of centre with large blue- 

 black patch defined on outer side by dull red, a faint dark shade 

 beyond the discoidal patch from below costa to vein 4 ; a slight 

 sinuous whitish postmedial line, arising below costa, oblique to 

 below vein 4 and angled outwards below vein 6, obsolescent and 

 incurved from below vein 4 to above tornus. Hind wing fuscous 







brown, the narrow terminal band purple-blue ; cilia brown. Under- 

 side of both wings brown sufitused with steel-blue; fore wing with 

 the whitish postmedial line more distinct ; hind wing with slightly 

 sjinuous subterminal series of minute whitish spots. 



5 . Wings wholly suffused with steel-blue except the brown hair 

 at base ; fore wing with the indistinct antemedial line continued on 

 inner a,rea, the discoidal stigma with the black centre defined on 

 outer side by grey, an oblique sinuous fuscous line from the stigma 

 to inner margin, the shade beyond it continued to inner margin and 

 diffused in submedian interspace ; hind wing with diffused medial 

 dark line, a slight waved whitish postmedial line bent outwards 

 between veins 4, 3. 



