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is clot-lied witli very densely packed laxly-raised very narrow pointed-tipt scales, and 

 with numerously interspersed slender scales. From typical Isamia the fore wing differs 

 in its shorter and more quadrate form, and in the shortness of the sexual mark. 

 Type. — P. Klugii, 



PADEMMA KLUGII (Plate 42, fig. 1 S, la, lb, ? ). 



Euplcea Klugii, Moore, Catalogue Lep. Mus. East India Company, i. p. 130, ^ ? (1857). 



Salpinx Klugii, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 294 (1878). 



Euplcea (Salpinx) Klugii, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 64 (1882). 



Pademma Khigii, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 305, pi. 32, fig. 1, ^ • 



Salpinx Graniii, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 2, ? . 



Euplcea (Salpinx) Grantii, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 65 (1882). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing dark purplish violet-brown, brilliantly 

 glossed with steel-blue throughout in some lights ; a pale blue small costal spot 

 above end of the cell, an irregular-lunate spot within lower end of the cell, two upper 

 discal white-centred streaks beyond the cell, a complete submarginal row of larger 

 white-centred lobate-spots, and a marginal row of small rounded spots. Sexual 

 streak in the type short, narrow, blue, and clothed with widely-separated narrow 

 bidentate and tridentate-tipt scales.* Hinchoing paler ; darkest and blue-glossed in 

 the middle ; costal border broadly glossy cinereous-brown, with a large pale ochreous 

 upper discoldal patch clothed with densely packed elongated round-tijot scales; a 

 submarginal row of small round whitish spots, and a marginal row of smaller spots, 

 the former obsolescent posteriorly and the latter anteriorly. Cilia alternated with 

 white. Underside dark olivescent-brown. Forewing darker in the middle ; with 

 both rows of small creamy-white marginal spots, costal spot, and upper discal short 

 streaks, and a larger lower discal spot between the middle and lower median veiulets; 

 sexual streak dusky-brown, clothed with very densely packed laxly-raised very narrow 

 point-tipt scales with numerously interspersed slender white scales ; posterior border 

 from the lower median glossy cinereous, with an ochreous patch of scales surrounding 

 the lower portion of the sexual mark. Female. Upperside. Forewing blue-glossed 

 throughout ; with the costal, cell, upper discal, submarginal and marginal spots, as 

 in the male, the latter row more or less obsolete, and sometimes entii-ely obsolete 

 anteriorly ; a small blue spot also between the middle and lower median veinlets, and 

 a narrow streak above the submedian vein. Hindwing with white submarginal spots 

 and indistinct lower submarginal and marginal spots. 



Expanse, c? 3f , ? 4^ inches. 



Habitat. — Cachar, Silliet. 



* In other specimens of P. Klugii from Cachar the sexual mark is clothed with broad tri- 

 dentate and quadridentate-tipt scales. 



