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Imago. — Male. Upperside vinous-browu. Foreicing with tlie usual three suli- 

 apical dots, sometimes with one, sometimes with two very indistinct minute dots 

 outwardly below them ; the three dots on a brown indistinct patch and three indistinct 

 brown patches in an outwardly curved row down the middle of the wing, a spot near 

 the base of the second median interspace and another near the base of the interno- 

 median interspace, l>oth somewhat indistinct. llindwing with a black spot at the 

 end of the cell, and three or four more or less indistinct spots of the discal series ; 

 a pure white marginal band from the anal angle on the lower half of the outer 

 margin, gradually narrowing upwards, with a white cilia, the cilia of the rest of the 

 wing and of the forewiug brown. Underside. Forewing paler, the sub-apical dots 

 as above, the hinder marginal space slightly paler than the rest of the wing. 

 Ilindvnng pure white, suffused with dull blue at the base and with a very broad costal 

 brown l»and which extends round the apex and is continued for a short distance down 

 the outer margin, narrowing hindwards, a few dark brown scales on the margin, not 

 extending to the anal angle, the discal spots as above, but black and prominent ; palpi 

 grey, black at the sides ; Ijody below and legs white ; head and body above concolorous 

 with the wings. 



Female. Upperside paler than the male, the dark patches more indistinct, the 

 sub-apical dots larger ; a semi-hyaline white spot near the base of the second median 

 interspace, a larger similar spot a little inwards, below it, in the middle of the first 

 median interspace ; sometimes a small dot Ijelow the middle of the costa. limdwlng 

 paler than the forewing, especially on the disc, and on the entire lower portion of the 

 wino- makino- the discal black spots more prominent, the white border rather deeper 

 than it is in the male. Underside. Foreicing as above. Uindmng as m the male, 

 the upper discal spot larger and prominent. 



Expanse of wings, ? 2, ? 2 to 2y% inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Appears to be confined to Ceylon ; we have both sexes from Kandy and Colombo. 



TAGIADES MEETANA. 

 Plate 768, figs. 2, i , 2a, ? , 2b, ^ . 

 Tagladc, meetana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 842, pi. 53, fig. I. Ehves and de Niceville, Juurn. 

 As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 439. aiauders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. .538. Watson, Hesp. Ind. 

 p. 94 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 189.3, p. 54 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. i.x. 1895, p. 422. 

 Adarason, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 139. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 84. 

 Twjwdes luijens, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1883, p. Ixxviii. 

 Tagiadcs alica, Ehves and Edwards (part). Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 140. 



Ijiago. Male. Upperside dark brown, varying in shades of colour in different 



examples luit never blackish as in allca, markings similar, the anal margin of the hind- 



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