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Female. Upperside blackish-brown. Forewing with the brilliant steel-blue 

 gloss restricted to the apical half ; the cell spot, the carved discal row of spots, and 

 the submarginal spots disposed as in the male, but all prominently bluish-white ; a 

 greyish-white scaled elongated divaricated streak extends along lower basal two- 

 thirds of the cell, a short incipient streak also along upper half of the cell, a similar 

 scaled streak in the basal interspace of the middle median, and another in the lower 

 median, a longer pair in the submedian, and a broken streak along the posterior 

 margin. Hindioing with a greyish-white scaled elongated discal streak in each 

 interspace, each extending from their base to the outer disc, and one within the cell, 

 followed beyond by a submarginal row of white dentate spots, and then a marginal 

 row of smaller cilial spots. Underside dull umber-brown. Forewing with the 

 markings as on upperside, the cell and lower discal streaks being ochreous-grey. 

 Hindwing with the cell and elongated discal streaks, as on upperside, ochreous-grey ; 

 the submarginal dentate spots being larger, and with the marginal cilial spots white. 

 Body black ; front of thorax, collar, frontal tuft, and palpi white-spotted ; base of 

 thorax white-streaked ; abdomen with a subdorsal, sublateral, and a lower longi- 

 tudinal row of white streaks ; abdomen and legs black ; femora and tibias white 

 beneath. 



Expanse, S 4^ to 5, ? 5^ inches. 



Habitat. — Assam ; Khasias ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Tonkin. 



Mimicry. — This species is a mimic, in both sexes, of the corresponding sexes of 

 the Euploeine butterfly Tre^'sic/M-ois Linneei ; and, according to the observations of 

 Mr. W. Doherty, the female appears to be dimorphic, one form resembling the male, 

 and the other the female of T. Linnsei. 



Distribution. — Mr. W. Doherty records the capture of this species, " on the 

 Diki-ang, near Sadiya, Assam, the female appearing to be dimorphic, one form 

 resembling the male, and the other the female, of Euphiea Linnsei. Both forms were 

 taken" (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, 130). Col. 0. Swinhoe records "eleven 

 males and one female, from the Khasia Hills. The female did not differ from the 

 other sex " (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 314). The female described and figured by 

 Mr. L. de Kiceville {I.e.), was obtained by the Rev. "\V. Hamilton's native collectors in 

 the Khasia Hills below Shillong, and is now in the collection of Mr. Walter 

 Rothschild. A similar female from Oherra Punji, Assam, is also in the British 

 Museum. A male taken by Mr. "VV. Doherty, in the Dunsiri Valley, Assam, at 

 1,000 feet elevation, in June, is in Mr. F. Goodman's Collection. A male from 

 Manipur, taken by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, and males from the Thoungyeen Valley, the 

 Daunat Range, taken in June, and from the Ye Valley, Lower Tenasserim, taken in 

 March by Col. C. T. Bingham, are in the British Museum. A male taken in March in 

 the Daunat Range is in Mr. W. Rothschild's Collection, and a female, also from the 



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