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Female. Upperside somewhat glossy brown. Forewing somewhat paler internally. 

 Ilindiving with the abdominal fold pale, some black sub-marginal lunular spots capped 

 with white, the spot in the first interspace larger and more conspicuous than the 

 others, the white caps in some examples are large, in one example from Java the 

 lower fourth of the wing is bluish-white. Underside as in the male, the ground colour 

 paler and the markings more prominent. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 to ly% inches. 



Habitat. — Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam, Java. 



Distribution. — A widely distributed species from the Himalayas to Java, but 

 never common, varying somewhat in colour and markings on the upperside, especially 

 in the females ; the type came from Java, we have it from Preanga, and both sexes 

 from Shillong ; Elwes records it from Margharita in Upper Assam, Mackinnon and 

 de Niceville from Mussuri, de Niceville from Sikkim, Kaugra and Kulu ; it is in the 

 B. M. also from Eanikhet and the Khasia Hills. 



SINTHUSA CHANDRANA. 

 Plate 708, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, <? . 



Hypolycaena chandrana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 249, pi. 11, figs. 2, 2a, $. de Niceville, 



Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p 78, pi. 9, fig. 1, $ . 

 Chliaria chandrana, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 33. 

 SintJmsa chandrana, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 486 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, 



p. 645. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 395 (1893). Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bu. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 389. 

 Hypolycsena grotei, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 527, pi. 49, fig. 5, ^ . 

 Sinthusa grotei, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 34. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 307. 

 ThecJa pratti. Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 110, pi. 7, fig. 4, (J ; id. Entom. xxiii. p. 44 (1890) ,: 



id. Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 354, pi. 30, fig. 10, ^ (1893). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, dark violet-brown, shading darker towards the outer 

 margin. Hindioing with the costal area dark, the rest of the wing showing more 

 violet colour in certain lights ; anal lobe black, with a pale blue mark ou it, terminal 

 line black, abdominal area pale. Underside grey, markings darker grey with prominent 

 white edgings. Forewing with a broad bar at the end of the cell, a discal band of six 

 broad, square, conjoined spots, the first two from the costa, slightl)^ outwardly oblique, 

 the next four in a slightly outwardly curved band decreasing in size hindwards to the 

 sub-median vein, its upper ends touching the lower ends of the first two spots and of 

 the discoidal bar. Hindwing with a sub-basal black spot below the costa, and two 

 spots below it, one above the other, both inside the cell, the upper one small ; a thick 

 bar, constricted in its middle, a discal band of similar sized spots in four pieces, the 



