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much below the submedian vein, narrow near the base, broadening in an almost oval 

 form outwards. Hindwing with the upper third of the wing black ; some black thick 

 basal irrorations, the rest of the wing dull purplish-grejish-blue, abdominal area pale, 

 marginal line black. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1^-^ to 1^% inches. 



Lakva in Dehra Dun feeds on the flowers of an orchid Rhynchostiglis retusa, 

 Blume. Head pale yellowish-brown, body pale bright green, covered with scattered 

 pink hairs, a dorsal reddish-pink stripe, wider at both ends than in the middle, two 

 stripes of the same colour on either side between the dorsal and abdominal stripe ; 

 these stripes all converge to either extremity, giving the impression that the larva is 

 entirely pink at either end, but under a magnifying glass the lines are seen to be 

 separate, a small black spiracular dot on each segment along the abdominal line, while 

 the latter is of the same colour as the other stripes. As the flowers of the orchid are 

 also pink, the larva is not easy to see. 



Pupa, green. (Mackinnon and de Niceville.) 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Nepal, Sylhet, Assam, Shan States. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — Elvves records it from the Naga Hills, "Watson from the Chin 

 Hills, Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussuri, Manders from the Shan States ; we 

 have a female from Nepal, and both sexes from the Khasia and Jaintia Hills ; 

 de Niceville records it from Naini Tal (6,500 feet elevation), and from Saria Tal, 

 Kumaon (5,600 feet) and Sylhet, and it is in the B.M. also from Darjiling, Cachar, 

 and Bhutan. 



CHLIARIA CACHARA. 



Plate 721, figs. 3, <? , 3a, 9 , 3b, (J . 



Hypolycmna cachara, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. .527, pi. 49, fig. 6, ^ . 



Chliaria cachara, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 188-1, p. 33. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 397 

 (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 304. 



Ima(30. — Male. Upperside pale greyish-blue, much paler and clearer in colour 

 than in kina, the forewing is longer, the hindwing has the outer margin much less 

 convex, its anal portion being somewhat produced. Forewing with a black spot at the 

 upper end of the cell touching the costal band, which gradually widens towards the 

 apex, and runs down the outer margin, the width of the band is very little less than 

 in kina, but the wing being longer, the blue inner space is more extensive, the base of 

 the wing irrorated with dark blue-grey scales ; the outer marginal band in some 

 examples becomes more or less obsolete at the hinder angle. Hindwing with the costal 

 black band paler and narrower than it is in kiiia, the rest of the wing of the same'pale 

 blue colour as on the forewing ; abdominal fold pale, a small black anal .spot ; tails 

 black, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings pure white. Underside greyish-white, 



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