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texture, but not pubose ; colour dirty green, with a patch of dark green in the centre 

 of the back ; it is also a good deal mottled everywhere. 



Pupa, fastened by the tail along a leaf, narrow, without projections of any kind ; 

 of a greeuish-brown, minutely dotted with darker brown. (Davidson, Bell and 

 Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra. 



Distribution. — The type came from Borneo, Wood-Mason and de Niceville record 

 it from Cachar, Mackiunon and de Niceville from Mussuri, 3,000 feet elevation, Moore 

 from Ceylon, Distant from the Malay Peninsula, Elwes from the Karen Hills, Watson 

 from the Chin Hills, Aitken and Comber from Bassein and Thanna, near Bombay, 

 Hampson from the Nilgiris, de Niceville from Chin Lushai, Orissa, Cannanore, South 

 India, the Shevroy Hills, Mergui and Myitta in Tenasserim ; we have it from Sikkim, 

 and have received many examples from the Khasia Hills ; our description and figures 

 are from a Khasia Hill pair ; it is in the B. M. also from Sumatra. 



CATAPfflCILMA DELICATUM. 

 Plate 706, figs. 2, (J,2a, ? , 2b, ^. 



Catapacilma delicatum, de Niceville, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 455 ; id. Butt, of India, iu. p. 422 



(1890). 

 Catapoecilma hubases, de Niceville (nee Hewitson), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 118, pi. 2, 



fig. 11, ^,1,?. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings smoky purplish-black, obscurely shot with 

 purple in some lights. Forewing with the lower discal and basal areas powdered with 

 dull blue scales, which are obsolete in some specimens. liindw'mg with two very fine 

 silvery lines on the margin of the anal angle. Tail black, tipped with white. Cilia 

 blackish, marked with white towards the anal angle of the forewing, and throughout 

 the hindwing. Underside, both wings chrome-yellow, densely and evenly striated with 

 black, and with scattered greenish-silvery metallic spots and streaks, some of which 

 form a marginal series. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing pale blue, with the costa, apex widely, and the 

 outer margin blackish. Hindwing with all but the outer margin, which is blackish, 

 pale blue ; towards the anal angle there is first a fine blue line, then a yellow one 

 defined on both sides with a black one, and then another pale blue line. Underside, 

 both wings as in the male, (de Niceville.) 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. 



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