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lower tlie longer, vein 6 emitted from near the upper end, 5 from a little above the 

 middle, 4 from lower end of cell, somewhat bowed, 3 from a little before the lower 

 end, 2 from about the middle, wing short, costa arched at base, apex rather acute, outer 

 margin convex, hinder margin bulged out just before the middle in the male, and has 

 a tuft of hairs attached to the margin and turned upwards, llindwing with vein 7 

 arched, emitted from the middle of cell, which is broad, triangular and half the breadth 

 of the wing ; discocellulars oblique, of equal length, vein 6 from upper end of the cell, 

 5 from the middle of discocellulars, 3 from very near the lower end, 2 from the middle, 

 a small anal lobe and a short filamentous tail at the end of vein 2, the male with an 

 <wal glandular patch below the costa extending hindwards into the cell. 

 Type, Thecla nasaka, Horsfield. 



SINTHUSA NASAKA, 

 Plate 708, figs. 1, <? , la, ? , lb, $. 



Thecla nasaka, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 91 (1829). 



Deudorix nasaka, Hewitson, III. Diurn. Lep. p. 24, pi. 5, figs. 45, 46, $ (1863). 



Hypoli/csena nasaJca, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 249. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 



1883, p. 77, pi. 9, fig. 2, ? . 

 Sinthusa nasaha, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 34. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 484 



(1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 644. Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 389. 



ImA-GO. — Male. Upperside blue-black. Forewing with the outer margin very 

 broadly black, the blue merging into the black, but in certain lights a broad even 

 black outer marginal band occupying a third of the wing is visible. Hindioing with 

 the basal and abdominal areas pale, in certain lights there is a black streak below the 

 liasal area and another on the outer side of the abdominal area, and on the veins ; tail 

 black, tipped with white ; terminal line black. Cilia black, except between the tail 

 and the anal lobe, where it is white, tipped with black. Underside grey, markings a 

 little darker than the ground colour, edged with white. Forewing with a line closing 

 the cell, a discal, slightly outwardly curved line of lunules from near the costa to below 

 the sub-median vein. Ilindwbu] with a thin bar across the end of the cell, a discal 

 band of thicker lunules passing close outside the cell bar, the third lunule outside the 

 others, the lower portion of the series indented and curving inwards to the abdominal 

 margin ; a double sub-marginal series of small lunular marks, all capped with bluish- 

 white, a black anal spot, a larger one in the first interspace, both capped with pale 

 orange, a pale orange line between them ; terminal line on both wings black, with a 

 white inner thread on the lower half of the hindwing. Antennas black, ringed with 

 white ; head and Iwdy above concolorous with the wings, white below. 



