92 LEPIBOPTERA INBICA. 



the blue being confined to the basal two-thirds of the cell, and the basal two-thirds of 

 the space below the median uervure and its first nervule ; the median and sub-median 

 uervures black. Hindwing with the costal band rather more broadly black than in 

 B. hulo, otherwise the colour and markings are very similar. Underside very much 

 darker than in huto. Forewing with a discal series of reddish-brown linear marks, 

 outwardly edged with white, the mark beneath vein 3 a little inwards, the one below 

 vein 2 a little more inwards, the last one a little outwards and curved. Iliiidwing 

 with a similar discal band, the second linear mark from the costa a little inwards, so 

 also is the fifth, the lower part of the series curving in a W-shaped line to the abdominal 

 margin a little above the anal angle ; a sub-marginal indistinct pale series of lunular 

 marks ; a large black sub-terminal spot in the first interspace, heavily capped with 

 orange, the two anal interspaces whitish, irrorated with black and some metallic pale 

 l)lue scales ; terminal line dark brown, with an inner white thread ; in some examples 

 thei'e is a blackish spot in the anal lobe, and some dull orange between it and the end 

 of the discal line. Antennae black, ringed with white, club with an orange tip ; frons 

 grey, with a black medial stripe ; eyes ringed with white ; head and body above and 

 below concolorous with the wings ; legs white, with black bands. 



Female. Upperside, both wings dull fuscous. Cilia cinereous. Forewing has the 

 discoidal cell, the base of the wing, and the disc as far as the inner margin dull blue. 

 Hindwing has the costa only, broadly plumbeous or dull fuscous ; the abdominal margin 

 whitish, the rest of the surface dull blue ; a small obscure round marginal black spot in 

 the first median interspace, a marginal black thread inwardly defined by a still 

 narrower white thread extending from the anal angle as far as the blue area reaches ; the 

 anal lobe small and black, bearing outwardly a few dull blue scales. Underside, both 

 wins;s as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^l-jS^tol^^, $1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



We have received several males from the Khasia Hills ; the type female from the 

 same locality is unique, we have not seen it, as it is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, we 

 therefore give de Niceville's description and copy of his figure. 



