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more intensely black ; generally with three lower-submargiual triangular white 

 patches, placed in the interspaces of the lower and middle median and radial, the 

 latter one sometimes being the shortest or partly obscured by black scales, and in 

 some specimens a small patch of white scales is also present in the next upper 

 interspace, these patches sometimes — but very rarely — have each a small black spot ; 

 the abdominal lappet, when unfolded, exposes an elongated laterally-radiating tuft 

 of undroconial hairs. Underside. Forewing paler, with distinctly-defined bluish- 

 grey vein and cell streaks. Hindwing intensely black; the lower-subraarginal white 

 patches broader and forming a continuous band extending from beyond the lower 

 median to the radial, the intersecting median veins being also white, a small dot 

 composed of a few black scales being generally present in each median interspace, 

 and, generally, a more or less small irregular-shaped continuous white patch is 

 present in the interspace above the radial. Thorax and abdomen above black; collar, 

 front of head and palpi, sides of thorax beneath and abdomen beneath rich crimson ; 

 abdomen beneath with black lateral spots and segmental cross-bands ; antenuEe and 

 legs black. 



Female. Both wings broader. Upperside blue-black as in the male. Forewing 

 with the streaks between the veins and within the cell paler and more distinct. 

 Hindiving with the white patches much longer than in the male, and forming a large 

 broad lower-discal baud extendinar from anal ans-le to the lower subcostal branch. 

 Underside. Forewing with the cell and vein streaks paler bluish-grey. Hindwing 

 longitudinally wrinkled between the median and submedian vein ; with the lower- 

 discal broad white bnnd as on the upperside, except that the traversing median veins 

 are also white ; cilia from the subcostal to anal angle also white. Thorax and 

 abdomen above blue-black ; collar, front of head and palpi, sides of thorax beneath 

 and abdomen beneath rich crimson ; abdomen beneath with black lateral spots and 

 lower segmental cross-bands ; antennaa and legs black. 



Expanse, 6 3i to 4, ? 4^ to 5 inches. 



Habitat. — Burma ; Upper Tenasserim ; Shan States ; Tonkin. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — Col. C. H. E. Adamson records it as "very rare in Burma. I 

 captured about half a dozen males and females in Upper Tenasserim during the cold 

 months " (List. 1897, 46). Mr. Ossian Limborg took it on the road from Moulmein 

 to Meetau, Upper Tenasserim, in December" (P. Z. S. 1878, 841). Signer L. Fea 

 obtained it at Cobapo, Karen Hills, m October (MS. Notes). Mr. H. J. Elwes 

 records " two paii-s from Ponsekai, Tavoy " (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 436). We possess 

 males from Haundraw Valley, Upper Tenasserim, taken by Col. Bingham in 

 December, and from the Upper ]\lekong, Shan States, taken by J. Roberts, C.E. 

 Examples are in the British Museum from the Thoungyen Valley, Upper Tenasserim, 

 taken in February, and from Papun in December, by Col. Bingham. In Mr. 



