DEVDOBIXINM 55 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brownish-black, overlaid with deep steel-blue gloss. 

 Forewing with this colour merging into the blackish marginal borders which can only 

 be distinguished in certain lights ; on the costa the blackish border is fairly broad, 

 widening from the base to the apex, then narrowing down the outer margin. 

 Hindwing with the costal space paler blackish, the outer marginal line black, the 

 abdominal space blackish, the abdominal fold paler, becoming quite pale near the base ; 

 anal lobe black, with a blue tinge above it, and a red spot in it, on its inner side, but 

 this spot is not constant, in some examples it is only faintly indicated, in others it is 

 entirely absent, in one example it is on one wing but not on the other ; the cilia on 

 the anal lobe and its continuation up to the end of vein 2 is white, tipped with black, 

 the rest of the cilia on both wings blackish-brown ; tail black, tipped with white. 

 Underside pale, varying in shade of colour in different examples from ochreous-brown 

 to vinous-brown, markings darker brown. Forewing with a double pale line across the 

 end of the cell, a discal line from the costa to the sub-median interspace, usually very 

 nearly straight, sometimes very slightly outwardly curved, sometimes very slightly 

 sinuous ; the inner side of the line paler than the outer side ; a very indistinct sub- 

 marginal fascia. Hindwing with similiar discoidal and discal lines, but the latter has a 

 whitish outer edge, and runs from the costa to vein 2, sometimes nearly straight, 

 sometimes it bends inwards a little at its upper part, then it curves round in two angles 

 to the abdominal margin one-third above the anal an^le, where the white edgincj is 

 more prominent ; a sub-marginal fascia, usually much more distinct than it is on the 

 forewing ; anal lobe black, with a small white spot on its upper side and crownpd with 

 orange in some examples, the orange very faintly indicated in others, and often absent ; 

 the cilia on the anal lobe and its extension up to vein 2 white, tipped with black. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white ; club tipped with red ; frons ochreous ; pectus with 

 ochreous hairs ; eyes ringed with white ; head and body above and below concolorous 

 with the wings. 



Female. Upperside paler and duller in colour than the male, the black marginal 

 bands of the forewing more apparent. Underside also paler, markings similar. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1-^-^ to l-i%; ? l-^- to lyo' inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Bhutan, Chin Hills, Cachar. 



Distribution. — The type of huxaria, a male from Bhutan, is in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta; de Niceville records it also from Tongloo, Sikkim, 10,000 feet elevation, 

 Watson from the Chin Hills ; we have received many examples of both sexes 

 from the Khasia Hills, including a male identified by de Niceville as his buxaria, 

 which is undoubtedly identical with Moore's type of rectivitta from Cachar, now 

 in the B. M. 



