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from thence to the hinder angle in a moderately broad band, the costal band from the 

 upper end of the cell to the base somewhat narrower. Cilia brown. Ilindwing with the 

 costa and apex with a moderately broad black band, the rest of the wing blue, outer 

 marginal line finely black, with an inner white line, abdominal fold whitish ; tails black, 

 with white tips, outer margin nearly evenly rounded. Cilia white, with grey tips. 

 Underside whitish-grey, markings chocolate-brown. Forewing with a black sub-costal 

 spot one-fourth from the base, a double line crossing the end of the cell, a rather broad 

 shorthand from near the costa to vein 4, composed of two conjoined squarish spots, 

 the lower the larger, the band continued hindward in a narrow straight streak ending 

 in a point on the sub-median vein, a sub-marginal lunular line, a dark band close to the 

 margin. Hindwing with a sub-basal spot below the costa, two pale lines close together, 

 as in the forewing closing the cell, an irregular discal band, commencing on the costa 

 with two conjoined, inwardly oblique dark spots, and two more somewhat similar spots, 

 their upper inner end touching the lower outer end of the others, then two more 

 conjoined but smaller spots, inwardly placed, their upper outer end well separated 

 from the lower inner end of the two above them, a sub-marginal lunular line, its lower 

 portion well separated from the outer margin of the wing, a sub-terminal series of 

 small, pale brown lunular spots, a small, black anal spot, a large one in the first 

 interspace, the former capped with orange, and with a short pale orange streak 

 running up the abdominal margin, the latter with its upper portion rather broadly 

 ringed with orange, both wings with terminal black line. Cilia white, with brown 

 spots opposite the vein ends. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body 

 blackish-brown above, grey beneath. 



Female. Upperside dark brownish-grey. Forewing with the marginal bands as 

 in the male, but not so dark. Hindwing with the ground colour darker at the base, 

 gradually paling towards the outer margin ; in some examples the lower third of the 

 wing is quite pale, almost grey ; terminal line black, with an inner white thread. 

 Cilia grey. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1 to l-jJg^ inches. 



Larva, of the usual onisciform shape, but with all the segments well defined, and 

 with the anal segment extended into two distinct short protuberances ; head concealed, 

 whole surface clothed with minute bristles ; colour green, with a rosy-red dorsal band 

 and three wavy lines of the same colour on each side ; the anal protuberances are also 

 of the same colour ; feeds on orchid flowers in May and June. 



Pupa, fastened along the stem of the orchid, is smooth, of the common lycsenid 

 type, greenish-grey, slightly marked with white, and with generally a distinct wavy 

 mark on the wing covers. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Andamans. 



Distribution. — Elwes records it from Margharita in Upper Assam, and from 



