EOBAGINM. 7 



Imago. — Male. Upperside cyaneous-blue. Forewing with a patch of white outside 

 the end of the cell, divided into 4 by veins 2, 3 and 4, the upper piece the smallest, 

 the spot below vein 4 small ; the costa with a black band, narrow at the base, in- 

 creasing in width outwards, occupying the whole apical space beyond the white patch, 

 and broadly down the outer margin. Hlndwlng with the costal area broadly blackish, 

 a narrow macular, outer marginal black band, terminal black line, anteciliary bluish- 

 white thread ; tails black, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings black, tipped with 

 white on the hindwing and at the hinder angle of the forewing. Underside pale 

 ferruginous-brown, with a pinkish-tint. Forewing with the hinder marginal space 

 below the sub-median vein white, a broad white band with dark brown edges crossing 

 the wing, from the white hinder space to near the costa, its inner edge passing just 

 outside the end of the cell, fairly erect, somewhat sinuous, its outer margin inwardly 

 oblique from vein 4, narrowing the upper end of the band to a point below the costa, 

 terminal line dark brown. Hindwing with a narrower band in continuation, edged 

 inwardly with dark brown, somewhat diffuse on its outer side, the band somewhat 

 constricted in its middle, extending from the costa (where it is broadest) down to the 

 first interspace, where it is angled and runs inwards in a straight black line, with some 

 metallic blue-green spots on it ; two similar spots below the angle, and three or four on 

 the abdominal margin above the anal angle, a black anal spot, a black spot in inter- 

 spaces 1 and 2, each with a metallic blue-green spot attached to it ; marginal line dark 

 brown, a white thread inside it. Cilia of both wings white, containing a medial brown 

 line. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body above and below concolorous 

 with the wings, abdomen whitish beneath and at the sides. 



Female. Upperside paler and duller blue, the discal white patch on the forewing 

 larger, more complete and usually oval-shaped. Underside as in the male but paler, 

 and the white bands broader. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1^ to 1^% inches. 



Larva, feeds on the leaves of Coriaria nepalensis, is shaped exactly like that 

 of viola, Moore, and is furnished with the same number of processes, but the colour is 

 different, some parts being green, and others brown. 



Pupa, attached by the tail only, with no medial girth, is short and very thick 

 for its length, anteriorly light green, the wing cases dark brown, the abdominal 

 segments also brown, on the back of the sides and the body green. (Mackinnon and 

 de Niceville.) 



Habitat. — Northern India. 



Distribution. — The type is labelled " Himalayas." Elwes records it from the 

 Karen Hills and Shan Hills ; Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussuri ; we have it 

 from Sikkim and from the Khasia Hills ; de Niceville records it from Kulu, Deyra Doou, 

 Kumaon, 3,200 feet elevation, the Pilebhit Terai, Jorehat Assam and Orissa. 



