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linear marks, curved slightly inwards at its upper end, and rather close to a sub- 

 terminal double line of short linear marks, rather darker in colour. Hindwing with 

 three sub-basal black spots in a curve, and another black spot in the middle of the 

 costa, a discal series of spots, the uppermost one outside the others, the lowest one well 

 inside, the lowest two more or less lunular, a sub-terminal series of spots, decreasing in 

 size upwards, those in interspaces 1 and 2 black, the latter the larger, both marked 

 with orange on their inner sides, all enclosed by a line of lunules joined together ; 

 both wings with a terminal brown line. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing blackish-brown at the base, with broad blackish- 

 brown costal and outer borders, the inner portion of the wing blue with iridescent 

 scales. Hindwing with the costa broadly blackish-brown, the outer margin narrowly 

 so, the sub- terminal spots large and prominent, with smaller blackish spots with whitish 

 outer edges continued up the wing, with a row of spear-shaped, whitish spots on their 

 inner side. Underside as in the male, the two black sub-terminal spots on the hind- 

 wing with some metallic blue scales. Cilia white. Antennae black, speckled with 

 white ; head and body dark blackish-brown above, with some blue scales, white 

 beneath. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? ly% to li% inches. 



Dry-season Brood { — patala) (Figs. 2c, $, 2d, ?). 



Male and Female above and below similar to the Wet-season form, the coloration 

 paler, the markings on the underside smaller. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ \^ to ly% inches. 



Genitalia. — Harpago long, very narrow, apex somewhat spatulate and excoriated, 

 covered with stiff bristles, all through its lower edge and terminal third of upper edge ; 

 cingula bent closely over harpagines as in Everes, tegumen deeply cleft, with long 

 strong falces, in close proximity to the harpagines as in Evei'es ; furca short and broad ; 

 ledoeagus of moderate and even width, with a bend near the middle. 



Larva. — Of the usual Lycsenid shape, the head small, black shining, retractile. 

 Colour of body pale green with darker green or reddish dorsal and sub-dorsal lines, the 

 latter coalesced into a broad band between the eleventh and last segments. The 

 entire surface of the body covered with minute white tubercles, there are also a few 

 scattered white hairs. The segmental constrictions shallow. Spiracles black ; extensile 

 organs on the twelfth segment small. The larva is broader than high in its higher 

 part, increasing in width to fourth segment, from thence to the flattened anal segment 

 of about uniform width. Bred by me in Calcutta on Phaseolu-s trilubus, Linn. Mr. 

 W. C. Taylor reports that the larva feeds in Orissa on Dolichos catjang, Roxb. Dr. A. 

 Forel identifies the ant in Calcutta as Camponotus rubripes (= sylvaticus, Fabr.), sub- 

 species, compressus, Fabr. 



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