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oblique iippei'-discal macular band on the forewing and the broad discal baud on the 

 hindwing is more or less, or entirely, pale blue. Underside paler brown, or paler 

 ochreous-brown than in ivet-season brood. Forewing with the oblique upper-discal 

 macular fascia either less-dedned and whitish or brownish-white, or more or less 

 obsolescent ; the inner submarginal white spots distinct but smaller anteriorly, the 

 upper two frequently also small, the two lower with black edges ; costal base and 

 cell-spots distinct ; outer marginal lunular lines less defined, either brownish-white 

 or pale brown, and obsolescent anteriorly. Hindwing with the transverse discal 

 fascia ill-defined, either brownish-white or pale brown, sometimes with a few blue 

 scales speckled medially along its inner edge ; the broad submarginal band and 

 marginal line also either brownish- wliite or pale brown. 



Female. Upperside similar to wet-season brood; the basal half darker and 

 flushed with blue iu certain lights ; the inner submarginal row of spots sometimes 

 smaller, the submarginal series of double conical spots sometimes disconnected, ill- 

 defined, and with the marginal lines obsolescent. Underside paler than the male, 

 otherwise similar, except that all the mai'kings are more obsolescent. 



Expanse, c? 3 to 4, ? 4<-^q inches. 



Varieties (Plate 331, fig. 1, la, b, c, d, e, f, g). 



Wet-season hrood. Male. Compai-atively smaller than ordinary specimens. 

 Upperside. Both wings with somewhat smaller discal patch, both beiug almost or 

 entirely powdered with lilacine-blue scales. Underside with narrower upper-discal 

 oblique macular band on forewing and discal band on hindwing ; in some examples 

 both bands are speckled with blue scales. Bombay (fig. 1, la). In other male 

 examples, from Mynpuri (fig. 1, c, d), the upperside has the patch on forewing dark 

 blue speckled, and the patch on hindwing is uniformly black — shot in certain lights 

 with brilliant dark blue, but showing no trace of a pale centre ; and on the 

 underside the upper-discal macular band is narrow and blue- speckled, the discal 

 baud on hindwing obsolescent and blue-speckled, and the upper costal spot absent 

 (fig. 1, d). Other examples of male have a similar uniformly-black patch on upper- 

 side of hindwing, the underside of the hindwing showiug au entire absence of the 

 discal baud, though the costal white spot is present (fig. 1, e), Khasias. Again, in 

 another smaller example of the male (fig. f, g), with patches on upperside as in 

 fig. 1, d, the upper-discal macular blue-speckled band on forewing is still narrower 

 and less prominent, and on the hindwing the discal band is entirely absent, the 

 ground-colour of the wing being quite uniform, the outer marginal markings also 

 being almost obsolete. Khasias. 



Larva. — Head reddish-brown, armed with two long erect black brauched- 

 spines, the segments purple-browu, armed with a dorsal and five lat.n-al longitudinal 

 rows of reddish-brown branched-spines ; legs reddish- brown. 



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