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wing, and less angular on hindwing. Body short ; head small ; palpi compressed, 

 second joint projected half beyond the front, apex small and pointed ; legs short ; 

 antennae very slender, with a slightly perceptible lengthened club ; eyes naked. 

 Type.—C. Nothis. 



CCELITES NOTHIS (Plate 75, fig. 2,c?). 



Ccelites Notlm, Westwood in Doubleday and Hewitson's Gen. D. Lep. p. 367, pi. 66, fig. 2, ? (1851). 

 Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. Ill (1868). Marsliall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. 

 i. p. 101 (1883). 



Imago. — ^Male and female. Upperside dusky purplish-brown. Both wings with 

 the basal half glossed with blue, and with two slender dusky brown marginal lines. 

 Hindwing of male with an elongate glandular patch of black scales on the submedian 

 vein near its end, which is overlapped with inwardly projected black hairs arising 

 from a longitudinal fold contiguous to the vein, the hairs also extending along the 

 fold towards its base. Underside. Both wings with the basal half dull brown, the 

 outer half pale violeacent-brown. Forewing crossed by an outer discal very narrow 

 brown wavy band, and two slender marginal lines. Hindwing crossed by a broader 

 angulated brown discal band, which is incurved and narrowest before the upper 

 ocellus, and in the male is posteriorly merged with the brown basal area ; beyond are 

 five ocelli, the upper one and the two lowest being large and of almost equal size, the 

 second and third much smaller, each with a black centre and small white pupil, an 

 ochreous ring and then a dai'k brown ring ; two marginal brown lunular lines. 



Expanse, ^ ? 3i inches. 



Habitat. — Bast India. 



Two males and one female of this species in the late Dr. Boisduval's collection, 

 now in possession of Mons. C. Oberthiir, of Rennes, France, and a female in the 

 Hewitson Collection at the British Museum, are all that is at present known to us. 

 The precise locality it inhabits is unknown. 



The illustration of this species, on our plate No. 75, fig. 2, represents the under- 

 side of the male of the type specimen, in the Boisduvalian Collection, reproduced 

 from a coloured drawing kindly forwarded to us by Mons. C. Oberthiir, the possessor 

 of the late Dr. Boisduval's collection. 



COELITES ADAMSONI (Plate 75, fig. 1, la, J ? ). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside purpurescent greyish-brown, the basal two- 

 thirds dusky and brilliantly glossed with dark purplish ultramarine-blue ; both wings 

 with two slender blackish marginal lines ; cilia purplish-cinereous. Male with an 



