EBONIIN^. 179 



PARERONIA NARAKA. 



Plate 609, figs. 1, (J, la, ?, lb, (J, Ic, ? (Wet-seasou Brood), Id, ^, le, ?, If, ^, Ig, ? (Dry- 

 season Brood). 



Eronia Naraha, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soo. 1877, p. 591. 



Eronia Valeria, var. iVaraia, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1880, p. 237 ; id. 

 1881, p. 252. 



Pareronia Pingasa, Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 280 (1907). 



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



Imago. — Male. Uppersicle pale blue, a little darker than in Pingasa and of a 

 clearer colour. Forewing with the veins not so broadly black, and the marginal band 

 not much more than half as broad ; always with one sub-apical pale small spot in 

 it, sometimes with two, three or four minute dots in a row following, consequently 

 the blue interspaces beyond the cell are much longer. Ilindw'mg with the black veins 

 much as in Pingasa, the exterior marginal black border quite as broad at the apex, but 

 not nearly so even in width, narrowing gradually hindwards, the androconia scales 

 covering the entire band. Underside much paler, whitish and dull in colour, with all 

 the veins as on the upperside, but of a pale blackish colour, the sub-marginal row of 

 blackish lunular spots and markings similar. 



Female. Very different to the female of Pingasa, the vein stripes and outer 

 border blackish-brown and not deep black as in that species, the pale interspaces 

 broader ; on the underside the forewing is similar, but the hindwing has no vein 

 stripes, and there is a broad, outer marginal blackish border, containing a row of 

 pale sub-marginal lunules. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Id, ^, le, $, If, $, Ig, $). 



Male. Upperside similarly coloured. Forewing with the black vein markings 

 thinner, the exterior marginal black band much less at the apex and narrowing hind- 

 wards, the spots within it larger. Underside of a brighter bluish-white colour. Fore- 

 wing with the vein markings similar, but narrower. Hindwing without black vein 

 markings, the outer marginal markings on both wings, faintly indicated. 



Female. Upperside with all the pale stripes broader, the spots larger, those on the 

 forewing with a slight blue tint. Underside. Forewing similar. Hindwing without 

 vein markings and with a broad blackish outer marginal border, diffuse on its inner 

 side ; both wings with thin, sub-marginal pale lunular marks. 



Expanse, $ 2-^, ? 3^ inches. 



Habitat. — South Andaman Islands. 



Distribution. — In our collection and in the B. M. from Port Blair. 



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