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Female, somewhat paler. Forewing with broad costal and outer marginal blackish 

 bands. Hindwing with the costa broadly blackish ; black subterminal spots and black 

 marginal line. Underside as in the male, the markings a little more distinct. Cilia 

 blackish, tipped with white. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body- 

 black above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? Ixo ^o Ij^ inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



LYCJINOPSIS ALBIDISCA. 



Plate 623, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, ? . 



Cyaniris albidisca, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 524, pi. 48, fig. 7, ^ . Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1885, p. 133. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 356. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 103 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 33. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, 



Butt. ii. p. 325 (1907). 

 Lycsenopsis albidisca, Chapman, Proc. Zool, Soc. 1909, p. 446 (text fig. 82). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark indigo-blue. Foreioing with two broad, short 

 white streaks, divided by the vein, in the disc, obliquely placed ; costal black line 

 thick ; outer marginal band very narrow ; veins prominent. Hindwing with a longer 

 white streak filling up the basal tv/o-thirds of the interspace between veins 6 and 7, 

 and consequently nearly triangular ; a small white streak immediately below it ; the 

 veins prominent, the marginal band narrow with some black spots on it. Underside 

 greyish- white, with a slight blue tint. Forewing with some small black marks on the 

 costa towards the apex ; a blackish line closing the cell ; a post-discal series of black 

 lunular marks, the first (hindwards) minute, the next three prominent, the third of 

 these very oblique, the two upper ones small and in a curve inwards. Hindwing with 

 the usual three sub-basal black spots in a line ; the discal series as usual, but the middle 

 mark linear and very oblique ; both wings with an indistinct sub-terminal, grey, 

 lunular line ; a very fine marginal line, with markings between them, composed on the 

 forewing of short grey linear marks, and on the hindwing of small black spots. 



Female. Upperside mostly white. Forewing with a broad black costal and outer 

 marginal continuous band of the usual shape ; a black spot at the end of the cell, 

 touching the costal band; the basal and lower portions of the wing suffused with 

 blue irrorations ; the rest of the wing white. Hindwing with a broad blackish costal 

 space ; a narrow black marginal band containing a series of black spots with pale inner 

 edges, bordered inwardly by a pale blackish lunular line. Underside as in the male ; 

 markings more pronounced. Antennse black, ringed with white ; head and body black 

 above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, '^ $ l-^ inches. 



Habitat. — Southern India. 



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