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more convex, the cell longer, narrower, with a short upper discocellular spur within 

 the cell ; and with a large sexual mark of twice the length. The hindwing is more 

 rounded, the costa convex, and waved outer margin, cell shorter and narrower, and 

 discoidal patch smaller. 

 Type. — I. superba. 



ISAMIA SPLENDENS (Plate 48, fig. 1, la, (J, lb, ? , Ic, var. $). 

 Euploea splendens, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1866, p. 272, (^. 

 Salpinx splendens, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soe. Zoul. XIV., p. 294 (1878). 

 Isamia splendens, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 311, pi. 30, fig. Z,^ . 

 Euplcea Rogenlioferi, Felder, Eeise Novara, Lep. ii., p. 325, (J(1887 . 

 Euploea {Salpinx) Rogenlioferi, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 60 (1882). 

 Euplcea Irawada, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 45, (J. 



Imago. — Male. TJpperside dark blackish-brown. Forewing brilliantlj^ glossed 

 with steel-blue throughout, a pale blue speckled round spot within lower end of the 

 cell, a dot on the costa above it, a series of five oblong discal spots, a submarginal 

 row of seven small white-centred, spots, the lowest being minute or obsolete, and the 

 upper two or three sometimes oblong, a marginal lower row of minute dots. 

 Sexual- mark pale brown, elongated, narrow, clothed with widely-separated some- 

 what narrow bidentate and tridentate-tipt scales. Hindiving paler, lower basal half 

 slightly blue tinged ; with a prominent pale oclireous-wliite upper discoidal patch, 

 clothed with densely-packed but loosely-disposed somewhat narrow round-tipt scales, 

 anterior border broad and glossy-cinereous ; a submarginal and a marginal series of 

 small obsolescent pale brown spots. Underside purpurescent olive-brown, darker 

 basally. Foreiving with a pale blue costal spot, lower cell-spot, a discal spot 

 between the upper and middle median veinlet, and sometimes three upper discal 

 A'ery minute dots, a large lower discal whiter spot ; a submarginal row of very small 

 white spots and some smaller marginal spots; sexual mark pale brown, clothed 

 ■with thickly-packed narrow-pointed scales, interspersed with a few "white narrower 

 scales, and a few projecting longer very slender claviform white scales ; posterior 

 border glossy-cinereous. Hindwing paler brown between the outer viens, as if rayed ; 

 with a very small bluish white spot within end of the cell, four oi' five discal spots, 

 a submarginal and marginal row of small white spots, the submarginal row 

 incomplete posteriorly. Body dark brown ; head, palpi, thorax in front and beneath 

 black, spotted with white ; legs black, fore femora white beneath ; abdomen beneath 

 with pale blue bands. 



Female with the posterior margin of the forewing straight. TJpperside and 

 underside marked as in the male, except in the absence of the sexual streak on 

 the forewing and the ochreous patch on the hindwing. Forewing beneath with an 

 elongated white streak above the submedian vein. 



