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patch and tlie sub-marginal band black. Hindwing witb a moderately broad costal and 

 apical black band, the latter gradually narrowing down the outer margin to a fine point 

 at vein 2, and then in a thin black line to the anal angle, the outer portions of all the 

 veins streaked with black ; abdominal fold blackish-brown, some blackish basal suffusion ; 

 anal lobe grey, tinged with pale blue with a minute black dot in it ; tails black, tipped 

 with white. Cilia of both wings black, with pale edges. Underside shining glossy grey ; 

 markings blackish-brown. Forewing with a narrow bar closing the cell, a discal 

 outwardly and evenly curved series of small disconnected spots, from the costa to near 

 the sub-median vein. Hindwing with a sub-costal spot near the base, a ringed bar at 

 the end of the cell, constricted in its middle, a discal outwardly curved series of nine 

 disconnected spots, its lower portion curving in to the abdominal margin, the third 

 well separated from the second and somewhat outwards ; a black anal spot, another in 

 the first interspace, both capped with orange ; a black terminal line, some white inside 

 it between the two spots and continued as a white anteciliary line up the wing, an 

 indistinct sub-marginal pale narrow fascia. Antennae black, ringed with white, 

 club with an orange tijj ; frons black, with a white middle stripe ; head and body 

 black above, grey beneath. 



Female. Upperside without the large black patch on the forewing, otherwise it 

 is similar to the male above and below. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? ly^o to I/q inches. 



Habitat." — Sikkim, Assam, W. China. 



Distribution. — Common in Sikkim and the Khasia Hills, from whence we have 

 received many examples ; the female is rare ; Elwes records it from the Jaintia Hills, 

 from which we have also received it. 



PRATAPA ARGENTEA. 



Plate 730, figs. 3, (J , 3a, ? , 3b, <J . 



Pratapa argentea, Aurivillius, Ent. Tidskr. 1897, p. 146. 



lolaus cippus, Butler (part), Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 186 (1869). Hewitson (nee Fabrioius), 111. 



Diurn. Lep. Suppl. p. 11, Suppl. iv. figs. 30, 40, <J (1869). 

 Camena cippus, Moore (nee Fabricius), Proc. Zool. See. 1883, p. 530. de Niceville, Butt, of India, 



iii. p. 340 (1860). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 530. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 



p. 636. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 302. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 384. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brilliant turquoise-blue, veins finely black. Foreicing 

 with a black costal band which just enters the cell to its end, becomes very broad at 

 the apex and fairly broad down the outer margin, narrowing a little to the hinder 

 ano-le, the inner margin of the band rounded. Hindwing wdth the costal margin 



