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blacker than the others, the detached spot before the last lower spot in the shape of a 

 short curve ; both wings with a sub-terminal row of detached lunules ; a slender black 

 marginal line and black dots between them. 



Female. Upperside much paler than the male, with a lilac tinge in some 

 examples, and brilliant blue reflections in some lights. Forewing with rather broad 

 blackish costal and marginal bands ; a black spot at the end of the cell, touching the 

 costal band. Hindiving with the costal portion suffused with pale blackish-brown, the 

 ])ase suffused with the same colour ; the upper disc pale, in some examples whitish ; a 

 sub-terminal line of blackish lunules ; a marginal blackish line and blackish spots 

 between them. Underside as in the male. Cilia white, black at its base. Antennae 

 black, ringed with white ; head and body black above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? I5 inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Occurs more or less throughout Ceylon ; Bingham records it from 

 South India, but we have never seen an Indian example, nor can we find any record 

 of one. 



LYCJINOPSIS ALBOCiERULEA. 



Plate 626, figs. 3, $ (one form), 3a, $ (another form), 3b, ? , 3c, $, 3d, ? . 



Polyomniaius alhocxrulea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 139. 



Cyaniris albocaemlea, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 71, pi. i. figs. 4, ,J, 4a, J ; id. 



Butt, of India, iii. p. 98 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 622. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. 



Soc. 1893, p. 293. Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 379. 



Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1900, p. 443. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 321, 



pi. 19, fig. 125, 9 (1907). 

 Lyceenopsis albocserulea, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 470 (text fig. 116). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside white. Foreioing with the costa, outer margin and 

 hinder border broadly pale lilacine-blue ; apex broadly black, narrowing hindwards 

 on the outer margin, the base more or less suffused with blue, leaving the inner 

 portion pure white. Hindwing, in some examples, pure white without markings, 

 except a little grey and blue basal suffusion ; in others the blue suffusion extends a 

 little along the costal and abdominal marginal portions of the wing and sometimes a 

 little on the outer margin ; marginal line black. Underside pure white. Forewing 

 with a very faint line at the end of the cell, and a post-discal row of black linear 

 marks. Hindwing with many minute black spots in irregular order on the interior 

 two-thirds of the wing, and sometimes, but not always, a series of sub-terminal 

 black dots. 



Female. Upperside like the male, but all the marginal bands are black without 

 any blue, the blue reflections being confined to the basal portions of both wings. 

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