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brown, tipped with white. Underside pale grey, markings pale reddish-brown, edged 

 with dark brown and white lines. Forewing with three somewhat linear spots in the 

 cell, increasing in size outwards, sub-basal, medial and terminal ; a similar spot below 

 the medial spot ; a discal band of six conjoined spots, with a seventh disconnected, the 

 series slightly outwardly curved and somewhat irregular, the fourth and sixth from 

 the costa being a little outwards, some dark suffusion in the middle of the hinder 

 marginal space. Hindwing with a sub-basal small round spot in the cell, one on the 

 costa above it and another below it, a larger spot in the middle, with a still larger spot 

 on the costa above it and a smaller one below it, a bar at the end of the cell, composed 

 of two conjoined spots, the lower shifted half outwards ; a discal outwardly curved 

 series of nine spots, the first six from the costa conjoined, the second the largest, its 

 outer lower end touching the inner upper end of the third ; the fifth inwards, the sixth 

 and seventh outwardly oblique, the latter somewhat linear and detached, the ninth 

 represented by a short line running in on the abdominal margin and well separated 

 from the seventh, with the eighth, a minute spot between them, a small black spot at 

 the anal angle, another in the first interspace, both capped with orange, some blue and 

 white scaling in the interspace between them, a white anteciliary thread from the 

 anal angle to vein 2 ; cilia brown, with a white line in its middle ; both wings with 

 a sub-marginal series of small lunular marks, only faintly indicated in the forewing. 

 Antennae black, whitish beneath, club with an orange-red tip ; frons black ; head and 

 body blackish-brown above, grey beneath. 



Female. Upperside. Foreicing pale blue, the outer borders blackish-brown with 

 a violet tint, narrow on the costa to the end of the cell, and also narrow on the hinder 

 margin, the apex broadly blackish-brown, the band running down the outer margin 

 about twice as broadly as it is on the costa ; the width of all these blackish marginal 

 bands varies somewhat in diff'erent examples. Hindwing with the blue ground colour 

 of the wino- suff"used more or less over its whole extent with blackish-brown, the 

 suffusion being darkest on the costal part ; a very small anal black spot, sometimes 

 absent, a large sub-terminal black spot in each of the next two interspaces and some 

 smaller sub-terminal spots l)ecoming obsolete upwards, the spot in the first interspace 

 crowned with orange, the other with whitish; a white line inside the black terminal 

 line ; tails blackish, tipped with white ; the extra tail at the end of vein 3 about half 

 the length of the others. Underside as in the male, the ground colour paler. 



Expanse of wings, $ IfV to lyV ? lyo to lyV inches. 



Larva, found on Terminalia paniculata, one of the commonest jungle trees in 

 Kanara, attended by a body-guard of red ants ; the larva is somewhat elongated, the 

 second segment not depressed, but encases the head and projects beyond it, is 

 anteriorly cleft into four points, like the teeth of a saw ; the last two segments are 

 depressed. There is a honey gland, but apparently no erectile organs, a sub-dorsal 



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