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margin almost sfcraiglit, apex and posterior margin very convex ; with a 

 short broad ufpcr discoidal ochreous patch, wliich is composed of very numerous 

 but laxly disposed rather long narrow tapering round-tipt scales, the broad costal 

 margin being clothed also with rather long narrow, pointed, but thinly disposed scales. 

 Type. — D. Rhadamanthus. 



DANISEPA RAMSAYI (Plate 39, fig. 1, la, c? $ ). 

 Salpinx Rhadamanthus, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 294 (1878), nee Fabricius, 

 Euplcea {Salpinx) Rhadamanthus, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. plate 7, fig. 11, c? ? 



(1882). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1888, p. 301. 

 Danisepa Rhadamanthus, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 296. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark indigo-blue black, tinged with brown at the 

 base, brilliantly glossed with dark blue in certain lights. Forewing with a broad 

 white bar extending from middle of the costa across but within end of the cell, the bar 

 being traversed by the black costal and subcostal veins ; a contiguous large discal 

 spot between the base of upper and middle median veinlets, sometimes a slender spot 

 above the upper median, in others an outwardly-oblique more or less slender, or 

 occasionally a broken discal spot also between the middle and lower median veinlets ; 

 beyond is a submarginal upper and lower series of white-centred pale blue spots, of 

 which the upper series consist of four or five small spots, and the lower series of a 

 much larger spot between the middle and lower medians and two very minute 

 posterior spots, followed by a more or less incomplete marginal row of very small 

 blue spots; a short, broad, pale blue sexual mark between the median and submedian 

 veins, clothed with broad rounded serrated-tipt scales. Hindioing with six white 

 streaks below the cell descending from the base between the veins and decreasing in 

 length from the anal angle upward to the disc, beyond which are sometimes two 

 slender blue upper discal streaks, and sometimes a white streak extends more or less 

 slenderly within lower edge of the cell and is there tipt by one, or two, small blue 

 points within end of the cell ; beyond is a submarginal generally complete row of small 

 white-centred pale blue spots, and a lower marginal row of smaller spots, the upper 

 spot of the former series being between the costal and subcostal and entirely white ; 

 costal border glossy cinereous ; upper discal area brown, with a medial xipper-discoidal 

 jmle ochreous patch, which is clothed with very numerous laxly disposed tapering 

 round-tipt scales, and a similar coloured streak above the costal vein. Underside more 

 or less dark purphsh-brown, markings similar to those on upperside, but whiter. On 

 the forewing the lower discal spot is always present and of large size ; the posterior 

 border is broadly glossy cinereous-brown, with a broad basal ochreous patch ; the 

 sexual streak brown, clothed with rather long, narrow, pointed, laxly disposed brown 

 scales, with intervening very slender white scales, and many thread-like white scales. 

 Eindwing with the white streaks well defined, the upper discal series extending to the 

 costa, of which the upper one is either large or small, the next very slender or some- 



