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until it becomes white at the outer portion, a black spot at the end of the cell, 

 touching the costal band. Hindwing with a broad costal blackish baud ; some black 

 anticiliary spots, inwardly edged with white ; the inner portion of the wing suftused 

 with greyish-blue, darkest at the base, and whitish at its outer portion ; underside as 

 in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? I-^q inches. 



Habitat. — Nilgiri Hills. 



There are two examples, male and female types in the B. M., and one male in our 

 collection, de Niceville's type from the same locality is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



LYCJINOPSIS CYANESCENS. 

 Plate 621, figs. 2 ^ , 2a, ?. 

 Cyaniris cyanescens, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 103, Frontispiece, fig. 129, (J (1890). 



Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 326 (1907). 

 Lycxnopsis cyanescens, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 438. 

 Cyaniris promineng, de Niceville, I.e. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside deep rich iridescent blue. Forewing with a black 

 costal line and narrow outer marginal band. Hindwing with the costal space 

 blackish, and a narrow marginal band, rather broader than it is on the forewing, all 

 the veins rather prominent. Underside greyish-white markings, brown. Forewing 

 with a thin lunular line at the end of the cell, and a post-discal series of short linear 

 marks rather close to the outer margin ; the third from the bottom, much outwards, 

 being close to the sub-terminal line ; the fourth much outwardly oblique, the sub-costal 

 spot on the inside as usual. Hindwing with a lunular line at the end of the cell, the 

 sub -basal spots and discal series as usual, but the spot at each end of the latter large 

 and black, both wings with the usual terminal line and sub-terminal series of lunules 

 and spots ; on the forewing these spots are minute and indistinct ; on the hindwing 

 they are black, and the middle ones large and prominent. Cilia brown tipped with 

 white ; antennae black ringed with white ; head and body above blackish-brown 

 covered with brilliant iridescent blue, below white. 



Expanse of wings, 1^ inches. 



The above description is from an example in coll. Bingham. 



Female. Upperside, both wings blackish. Forewirig with the disc whitish, 

 glossed with brilliant iridescent blue in some lights ; a distinct discocellular spot. 

 Hindming with the costa broadly blackish, the disc as in the forewing, a sub-marginal 

 series of blackish oval spots, inwardly defined by a blue, then a distinct lunulated 

 blackish line. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, lyV to 1^^ inches (de Niceville). 



Habitat. — Nicobar Islands. 



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