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Polyommatus etolug, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 639 (1823). 



Amhlypodia etolus, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 115 (1829). 



Thecla etolus, Horsfield, I.e. pi. i. fig. 9, ^ (1829). 



Myrina etolug, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 49, pi. 12, fig. 6, larva: 6a, pupa 



(1857). Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 183 (1869). 

 Hypohjcsena etolus, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. pi. 22, figs. 19, 20, $ (1865). Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1873, p. 351. Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lend. 1877, p. 549. de Niceville, Journ. As. 

 Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 59. Kheil, Rhop. Nias, p. 31 (1884). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 256, 

 pi. 20, fig. 23, <J (1885). Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 283, pi. 96, $ (1888). Hampsou, .Tourn. 

 As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 360. 

 CJierifra etolus, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 43. Elwes and de Niceville, Journ. 



As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 429. 

 Zeltus etolus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 400, pi. 28, fig. 221, ^ (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 50. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 639. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1893, p. 304. H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 605. 

 Hypolycsena amasa, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 51 (1865). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing with a small basal space, consisting of the 



basal half of the cell, and the lower basal portion of the wing greyish-blue, the rest of 



the wing black. Ilindwing with a large black patch at the apex, the rest of the wing 



greyish-blue, paling hiudwards and becoming more or less pure white at the anal angle 



and on the abdominal fold ; tails white, with a pale blue line down their centres, a pale 



blackish spot at the anal angle and another in the first interspace. Cilia white. 



Underside. Forewing, pale rufous-brow"n, four-fifths of the hinder marginal area from 



the base below vein 2 bluish-white, markings slightly darker than the ground colour ; a bar 



at the end of the cell, edged on both sides with white, a slightly outwardly curved, even 



discal narrow band of the same width as the cell bar, edged on both sides with white, 



extendincr from near the costa to below vein 2, an indistinct similar sub-mara;inal band 



without the white edgings. Hiudwing with the upper portion of a paler rufous-brown, 



paling hindwards, and becoming pale bluish-grey on the lower two-thirds of the wing ; 



a black sub-basal spot below the costa, a pale bar at the end of the cell, edged on l)oth 



sides with white, a discal broken band of the same narrow width as on the forewing, 



edged on both sides with white, in a straight line from the costa to vein 4, a linear 



mark in the next lower interspace well inwards, and below it a line twice acutely 



ausjled, then beudino; inwards straioht on to the abdominal margin above the anal 



angle, a sub-marginal double series of somewhat lunular marks, the outer series ending 



in a lai'ge black spot in the first interspace just above the upper tail, and another at 



the anal angle ; a terminal fine black line with an inner white line. Antennge black, 



ringed with white ; head and body blackish above, with blue pubescence, whitish 



below. 



Female. Upperside brown. Forewing with the outer portion shading a little 

 darker. Ilindwing with the costa narrowly pale, the rest of the wing brown, paling 



