Distribution. — We have it from Ceylon, Hampson records it from the Nilgiris, 

 and there are two examples in the B. M. from that locality. Watson records it from 

 Mysore, and we have taken examples at Bombay. 



EVERES DIPORA. 



Plate 637, figs. 2, (J, 2a, ? , 2b, ^. 



Lycsena dipora, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 506, pi. 31, fig. 8, ^ . 



Everes dipora, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 132. Chapman, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1908, 



p. Ixxxii. pi. C, fig. 1 (genitalia). 

 Everes argiades, de Niceville (part). Butt, of India, iii. p. 137 (1890). Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. 



India, Butt. ii. p. 378 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark greyish-purplish blue. Foreivlng with or without 

 a blackish spot at the end of the cell ; a rather broad black terminal band, with the 

 black colour running up the veins. Hindiving with a much narrower terminal band, 

 some blackish costal suffusion and sub-terminal blackisk spots edged outwardly by a 

 very slender white line, the spots capped with grey, sometimes with obscure orange, 

 inwardly edged with slender blackish lunules, tail black tipped with white. Cilia on 

 both wings, white with a grey medial line and black points at the ends of the veins. 

 Underside grey with a very slight pinkish tinge, all the spots on both wings black 

 ringed with white. Forew'mg with a lunular mark at the end of the cell, a discal series 

 of short, thick linear marks, the upper two and lowest two placed inwards, followed 

 by an outwardly curved row of brown spots, the lower end of the row nearly touching 

 the lower end of the discal series, a terminal black line. Hindwing with two sub-basal 

 spots, a discal series of spots, the two upper ones well inwards, then four in a line, the 

 seventh inwards, the eighth linear, the ninth in a line with the four middle spots ; a 

 sub-terminal series of spots and between these and the discal series there is a series of 

 brown spots covered by a broad and bright orange band on the lower portion of the 

 wing, extending more upwards in some examples than in others, a black terminal line. 



Female. Upperside blackish-brown, terminal line black, cilia as in the male, some 

 small black sub-terminal lunules on the hindwing, decreasing in size and paling in 

 colour upwards, the lowest two capped with orange, the others with grey. Under- 

 side as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? -i% to 1 inch. 



Description of Genitalia. — Harpago decidedly narrower than in E. dipora, with 

 the lower extremity gradually tapering into a blunt point, the upper portion being 

 decidedly shorter and reduced into a very narrow, overlapping, bluntly pointed finger 

 whose curve is near the base of the incision, so that it overlaps the lower part sooner. 

 The cingula is much narrower and more weakly developed, whilst the tegumen is 



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