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portion of the forewing blackish-brown. Hindwing with the whitish interspaces very 

 broad, the veins with bluish-grey thin stripes and the outer border broadly bluish-grey 

 with a sub-marginal row of large whitish spots. 



Expanse, $ 2^-^, % 3j% inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Note. — The male figure is from Felder's type, kindly lent me by the Hon. Walter 

 Kothschild ; the Dry-season female figure is from an example in the Felder collection, 

 but is not his female type. 



PARERONIA FRATERNA. 



Plate 611, figs. 1, (J, la, 9, lb, ,J, Ic, ? (Wet-seasou Brood), Id, tJ , le, ? , If, <J , Ig, ? (Dry- 

 season Brood). 



Nepleronia Fratern a, Moore, Lep. Ceyloa, i. p. 139, pi. 54, figs. 3, ^, 3a, ? (1881). Hampson, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 363. Fergusson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 4-44. 

 Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. 1897, p. 573. 



Nepheronia Ceylanica, Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 281 (1907). 



Eronia Ceylanica, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 191 (? only), (1865). 



Nepheronia Speculifera, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 139 (1881). 



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



Imago. — Male. Upperside darker and brighter blue than in Ceijlanicn, markings 

 similar, the veins not nearly so broadly black, and the outer marginal band narrower. 

 Underside similar, but the hindwing is immaculate. 



Female very different to the Wet-season form of Ceylanica. Upperside deep black 

 with a faint blue tinge, markings very much as in the Wet-season form of the female 

 of Hippia, but all the pale stripes and spots tinged with blue ; the lower cell stripe on 

 the forewing club-shaped and very short, the discal stripe in the second interspace 

 rounded at both ends, and the cell stripe of the hindwings with a distinct black line 

 dividing it. Underside very different to any other Indian species of this genus ; it is 

 strongly blue-tinged. Forewing with the inner ground colour black, the stripes broad, 

 the sub-apical stripes long and running into the sub-marginal spots, the general colour 

 of the costal band and of the apical portion whitish tinged with blue, the marginal 

 space is of the same colour, narrowing hindwards, and the cell stripe is outwardly split 

 into three parts. Hindwing with very faint markings and with a series of large 

 whitish lunulate sub-marginal spots. 



Expanse, $ 2^-^, % 3yV inches. 



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

 Male. Upper and underside like the Wet-season form, but the veins are more 

 thinly marked and the exterior bands above are narrower. 



