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Imago. — Male. Upperside greyisli-blue, both wings with black outer marginal 

 line, with a little narrow, blackish suffusion inside it. Cilia white, with a black basal 

 band. Underside grey, with a slight pinkish suffusion, markings brown, edged with 

 white. Forewlng with a streak from the base, which is blackish basally, a black spot 

 inside the cell, a thick lunular mark at the end, and another between it and the black 

 cell spot, beyond the cell are three bars from the costa, the middle one the thinnest, 

 the first and second descend to vein 2, the third to vein 3, the first expands a little on 

 vein 2, below these bars are two short oblique streaks. Terminal line black, sub- 

 terminal line brown, composed of lunular marks joined together, and between them a 

 series of spots, the lower one lunular. Hindwing with a black spot near the base, 

 joined to the base by a thick black streak, four sub-basal spots in a line, the two upper 

 ones larger than the other two, a black spot on the middle of the costa, a brown 

 lunule at the end of the cell, and a discal curve of lunular marks in three pieces, with 

 a linear mark on the white ground, in the middle beyond them ; terminal line black, 

 a sub-terminal line of conjoined brown lunules, and between them a series of black 

 spots, decreasing in size hindwards, except the second and third from the anal angle, 

 which are large, all the spots edged with white. 



Female. Pale grey blue, suflFused more or less with brownish, the inner portion 

 of both wings often quite pale, and the veins somewhat prominent. Forewing with a 

 black lunule at the end of the cell, the costa and outer margins broadly brownish. 

 Ilindwiiig with the costa and outer margin more narrowly brown. Underside as in 

 the male, spots more prominent. 



Expanse of wings, $ ^ 1 inch. 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Ceylon, Aden, Abyssinia, South Africa, Syria. 



Distribution. — Lederer's type came from Syria ; we took it at Poona, Mhow and 

 Aden ; Doherty records it from Kumauu, Moore from Ceylon, Watson from Mysore and 

 Chin Lushai, Hampson from the Nilgiris, de Niceville from Umballa, Orissa and 

 Madras, Bingham from Baluchistan, Oudh, the Central Provinces and Upper Burma. 



ALLIED MALAYAN SPECIES. 



Azanus as!alis,de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, vol. x. p. 33, pi. S, fig. 22, ^ . Habitat, 

 N.E. Sumatra. 



Genus ORTHOMIELLA. 



Orthomiella, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 125 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. 

 ii. p. 368 (1907). 



Eyes hairy. Forewing, cell large, more than half the length of the wing, vein 3 

 from before lower end of cell, 4 from the end, 5 from junction of lower and middle 



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