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spot between it and the base and a small sub-apical streak ; these orange streaks 

 vary somewhat in size, clearness and extent in different examples, but are usually 

 more or less small and sometimes obscure. Tlindwing with the violet tint more 

 intense, no markings except for the anal orange patch, which is about the same size as 

 in the male of vulcanus, but its outer end is rounded, and on the inner side the 

 orange runs a little way up the abdominal margin ; a black spot in the anal lobe, 

 a smaller one on the margin between the two tails ; tails black, tipped with white, 

 the orange colour running up them for a short distance. Cilia of both wings white, 

 with a blackish base. Underside yellowish-white, bands dark red, somewhat chocolate- 

 red, each one edged with fine black line, and with a fine inner silvery macular line. 

 Foreicing with a short sub-costal streak from the base, an irregular-shaped spot near 

 the middle of the base, four transverse bands, ante-medial and medial, both outwardly 

 oblique, the medial band bifurcating upwards, the ante-medial band ends on vein 2 

 against a rather large club-shaped black mark which extends from a little outside it to 

 the base, the medial band runs into a grey suQ"used space near the hinder angle, the 

 third band is sub-apical, short, and not nearly so outwardly oblique as the other two 

 are, and ends below vein 4, where it touches the sub-marginal band, which is nearly 

 straight down and also ends in the suffused grey space near the hinder angle ; all these 

 bands come from the costa ; a lunular black line close to the outer margin, with the 

 space between it and the black marginal line pale orange-ochreous. Ilindiciiig with 

 four bands situated very much as in A. vulcanus, but the third and fourth bands are 

 more separated from each other, the anal patch is bright crimson-red in some examples, 

 a little duller in others, the black anal spots are similar ; there is a red thin streak 

 from the upper inner edge of the patch to the abdominal margin, and there are some 

 silvery specks on the patch. Antennae black, with white segmental dots, club with a 

 red tip ; frous black, with a white stripe on each side ; tarsi without black stripes ; 

 head and body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside paler than the male, both the wings much tinted with violet, 

 in one example the inner and lower portions of the forewing look as if smeared with 

 violet ; the bands of the underside distinctly visible through the wings, markedly so 

 on the outer half of the forewing, the anal orange patch and spots are about the same 

 size. Underside similar to the male, but the bands are somewhat broader. 



Expanse of wings, ^ 1 to ly^^, $ IfV to 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Described and figured from examples in our collection from Kandy. 



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