176 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Pareronia Bqipia, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 278 (1907). 



Eronia Gaea, Fekler, Reise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 190 (1865). 



Ncpheronia Gaea, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 51. Swinhoe, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1885, 



p. 139. Elwes and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 431. Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 41. Murray, id. 1888, p. 26. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, 



p. 363. de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 387. Watson, id. 1891, p. 53. 



Fergusson, id. 1891, p. 445. Aitken and Comber, id. 1903, p. 51. 

 Eronia Valeria, Betham (nee Cramer), Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1892, p. 422. 

 Nepheronia Eippia, ah. Livilla, Fruhstorfei', Iris, 1902, p. 300. 

 NepJieronia Eippia, ah. Philomela, Fruhstorfer, I.e. 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, $, Ic, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale blue of a deeper tint than in Avatar ; all the 

 veins with black bands. Forewing with the costa broadly black, and a rather broad 

 black band on the exterior margin, almost uniform in width, two or three sub-apical 

 blue spots within the band and two or three below them sub-marginal, the blue stripe 

 in the internomedian interspace with an excavation at its extremity, some of the 

 otliers with minute excavations. liindwing with a slightly broader black band on the 

 exterior border, with similar excavations at the ends of the blue interspaces, the costal 

 and abdominal spaces white. Underside much paler, the veins and outer marginal bands 

 pale blackish, an indistinct row of large pale spots within the band on both wings. 



Female. Upperside black, the markings white tinted with pale blue. Forewing. 

 Cell with two streaks, the upper from base to about a third from the end, the lower 

 from about the middle to the end ; but the length of these streaks is sometimes 

 variable, the two extending almost to the end of the cell in some examples ; below and 

 outside the cell are a series of streaks in the interspaces, in the internomedian 

 interspace the streak is long and is split in two, and has two small sub-marginal 

 spots near its end, the streaks shorten in length upwards, in the third interspace 

 it consists of two elongated spots, there is also a row of more or less round sub- 

 marginal spots, one near end of each streak, the spot at the end of the broken streak 

 is absent. Hindwlng with the cell and interspaces below and beyond it with broad 

 streaks, the streak in the cell fairly filling it and split in two except at its base, the 

 two hindermost streaks the longest, the others varying in length according to the 

 length of the interspaces, the third and fourth being the shortest, at their ends are 

 sub-marginal spots in an even row, the two lowest ones small, costal and abdominal 

 spaces whitish. Underside dull whitish with the blue tint very slight, the markings 

 all dull pale blackish, those on the forewing disposed like they are on the upperside, 

 but the pale part of the hindwing is more extensive, the veins being thinly marked. 

 Anteunse black ; head, thorax and abdomen blackish-brown, the latter with long 

 bluish hairs. 



Expanse, t ? 3^% to ?,-{^ inches. 



