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cell ; an outwardly curved irregular band of short, double, linear marks, which curves 

 in on to the abdominal margin above the anal angle ; a black anal spot, a larger black 

 spot in the first median interspace, some blue scales in the interspace between them, 

 all capped with a continuous band of orange and outwardly lined with white, some 

 indistinct sub-marginal double markino;s above them. Antennse black, ringed with 

 white ; club with an orange tip ; frons white, collar finely white ; head and body above 

 and below eoncolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside brown, with a rufous tint. Forewing with the colour shading 

 darker towards the outer margin. Hindicing with the lower half bluish-white, anal 

 spot black, a small black spot in each of the next three interspaces, terminal line black. 

 Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ -^^ to 1 inch. 



Habitat. — Mergui, Burma, Malay Peninsula. 



Distribution. — The types came from the Myitta, Tenasserim and Mergui ; Elwes 

 records it from Eastern Pegu, Distant from the Malay Peninsula ; our descriptions and 

 figures are from Burmese examples in the B. M. 



SINTHUSA VIRGO. 

 Plate 708, figs. 4, <J , 4a, ? , 4b, ^ , 4c, ? . 



Hypolycsena virgo, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 446. 



Hypohjcsena (1 Sinfhusa) virgo, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 396, pi. 8, fig. 7, ^ . 

 Sinthusa virgo, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 488, frontispiece, fig. 134, ,J (1890)'. Elwes, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 645. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings shining light blue. Cilia white, but 

 becoming dusky towards the apex of the forewing, tipped with black on the anal lobe. 

 Forewing with the costa as far as the costal nervure, the outer margin broadly, the 

 apex still more broadly, black. Hindwing with the costa very broadly black, the 

 abdominal margin whitish, an anteciliary fine black line, the veins outwardly more or 

 less broadly bordered with black ; tail black, tipped with white. Underside, both 

 wings bluish-white, an indistinct sub-marginal dusky band, a discal macular broken 

 ochreous band outwardly defined finely with black, a short similar band on the 

 discocellular nervules. Forewing with the discal band composed of three distinct 

 portions, the upper composed of three spots, the middle of two, which are shifted a 

 little inwards, the lower portion of one spot also shifted inwards, placed in the 

 sub-median interspace. Hindwing with the discal band composed of three pairs of 

 spots from the costa, then three or four single spots recurved to the abdominal margin ; 

 the inner portion of the sub-marginal band bearing a bright yellow line from the 

 second median nervule to the abdominal margin, the anal lobe black, a small round 



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