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Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 380. de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, p. 488. Aitken and 



Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 47. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 398 (1907). 

 Poli/ommatus hochus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 6G1 (1823). 

 Lycsena hochus, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 272, pi. 94, ^ (1888). 

 Sesperia plato, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (1), p. 288 (1793). 

 Papilio plato, Donovan, Inst. Ind. pi. 45, fig. 2 (1800). 

 Polyommatus plato, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 653 (1823). Blanohard, Voy. Pule-Sud, iv. p. 398, 



pi. 3, figs. 9, 10, (J (1853). 

 Lampides plato, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 166, pi. 2, fig. 3, ? (1869). Semper, Journ. 



des Mus. Godef. xiv. p. 156 (1879). 

 Lycsena pluto, "Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 490 (1852). 

 Hesperia democriius, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (i.) p. 285 (1793). 

 Polyommatus democrifus, Godart, Ent. Meth. ix. p. 656 (1823). 

 Lampides democritus, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 166 (1869). 

 Lycxna nila, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 78 (1828). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark metallic blue, very shining and brilliant. 

 Forewing witb the outer margin very broadly black, varying in width in different 

 specimens, deepest at the apical portion and narrowing along the costal margin 

 to the base. Hindwivg with the costal space pale, terminal line black, with a little 

 black suffusion inwards, a white sub-terminal short line towards the anal angle, a 

 black sub-terminal spot in interspace 1, a smaller one in interspace 2, and sometimes 

 indications of small spots on the next two or three interspaces. Cilia blackish- 

 brown above, brown beneath. Underside pale chocolate-brown, marking very slightly 

 darker than the ground colour of the wings, formed by their whitish edgings. 

 Forewing with a bar at the end of the cell, a discal band of short bars touching 

 each other, the upper three outwardly curved, the fourth and fifth in a line, a little 

 inwards. Hindwing with a sub-basal band consisting of a bar from the costa, another 

 below it, somewhat inwards, a spot below and another near it on the abdominal 

 margin ; a bar at the end of the cell, an irregular discal band of bars joined 

 together, the two upper bars much larger than the others, and in echelon with each 

 other ; both wings with a terminal black line, inwardly edged by a white line, suli- 

 terminal double rows of brown spots capped by whitish lunules, a large black sub- 

 terminal spot in interspace 2, a smaller spot in interspace 1, both with metallic 

 blue-green scales, and capped with orange, tail Ijlack, tipped with white. Antennjy 

 black, speckled with white ; head and body black above, greyish beneath. 



Female. Upperside pale greyish-blue. Forewing with the black borders as in 



the male, but of a duller colour. Hindwing with the costa broadly blackish, blackisli 



rather narrow, terminal band, containing a series of black sub- terminal spots ringed 



with pale greyish-blue, the second from the anal angle the largest, the others decreasing 



in size upwards. Terminal line black. Under.side as in the male, ground colour 



slightly paler. 



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