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MARMESSUS MOOREI. 



Plate 740, figs. 2, ^, 2a, ? , 2b, <J . 



Sifhon moorei, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1882, p. 246. 



Brupadia moorei, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 236, pi. 20, figs. 21, ,J, 20, 30, 9 (1884), and 



p. 460, pi. 44, fig. 11, 9, variety (1886). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 425. 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 431 (footnote) (1890). 

 Marmessus moorei, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 617. 

 Sithon ravindra, Druce (nee Horsfield), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 351. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black, with a purple tint. Forewing without markings. 

 Cilia black. Hindwing bright blue, costal space broadly whitish, black at the base and 

 at the apex, abdominal fold blackish, a small black anal spot, another in the next 

 interspace, and sometimes indications of blackish spots up the margin, marginal line 

 black, with a white inner thread between the tails ; tails white, with a black middle 

 line, the middle tail very long. Underside. Forewing reddish-orange, markings black ; 

 hinder marginal space narrowly whitish, with some blackish suffusion above its middle, 

 a short basal streak, a red bar in the middle of the cell, with a black spot at its lower 

 end, attaching it to the blackish suffusion, a red bar at the end, both with faint white 

 edges, two discal lines of fine black, the inner one linear, the outer lunular on the 

 upper half, marginal line black. Cilia paler black. Hindwing white, the costal space 

 narrowly reddish-orange, markings deep black and prominent, composed of thick bars ; 

 a sub-basal bar from the base to the orange space, an elongated spot beyond it, below 

 the costa, beneath it a bar from the middle of the cell to near the abdominal margin, 

 a bar across the end of the cell, with a bar above it, its lower end a little outside the 

 upper outer end of the cell bar, a short bar below the cell bar placed inwards, a discal 

 series of bars, all disconnected, the third from the costa double, the sixth in a deep 

 curve, then running in a band to the abdominal margin one-third above the anal angle ; 

 a sub-marginal line from vein 4 to the abdominal margin limiting the space of metallic 

 blue scales which cap the anal spots, a large one at the anal angle, another in the first 

 median interspace, and a small one between them ; a series of sub-marginal lunules 

 from the outer spot upwards, terminal line black, with an inner white line, which is 

 broad between the tails. Cilia white. Antennae black, with white dots on the sides, 

 club with an orange tip ; frons white ; head and body above and below concolorous with 

 the wings. 



Female. Upperside brown. Forewing generally with indications of some red 

 suffusion in the upper disc, but the discal patch is very variable, sometimes fairly large 

 and oblique. Cilia brown. Hindwing suffused with pale blue, the suflFusion strongest 

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