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interrupted in interspace 2 by a large orange patch which caps a black sub-terminal 

 spot, and a small black spot with a small orange cap near the anal angle. 



Female. Upperside of a duller blue colour. Forewing with a very broad blackish 

 outer marginal band, broadest at the apex. Hindwing with the costal portion 

 broadly blackish, outer marginal band narrow and blackish, containing a series of 

 white spots with black lunular spots inside them, the band having on its inner side a 

 series of indistinct whitish lunules. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ l-j^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Tenasserim, Mergui. 



JAMIDES CONFERENDA. 



Plate 654, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b ? (Wet-season Brood), 3c, (J , 3d, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



Lanvpides conferenda, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 185. 



Lampides pura, de Niceville (neo Moore), Butt, of India, iii. p. 170, frontispiece, fig. 132, 9 (1890). 



Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 627. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 403, 



woodcut (1907). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 3, $, 3a, $, 3b, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside bluish-white, like cleodus ; the underside markings 

 showing through the wings. Forewing with costal and terminal lines black, a 

 thin black terminal band, from the apex narrowing hindwards. Hindwing with black 

 terminal line ; tails black, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings grey, with a basal 

 white band. Underside. Forewing with the lower portion whitish, the rest of the 

 wing suffused with pale chocolate, two brown lines across the end of the cell, two 

 (curving outwardly a little) from near the costa to vein 3, two from vein 3 to vein 1, 

 closing together hindwards, all filled in with dark chocolate colour, forming three short 

 bands into the shape of the figure Y ; a paler chocolate terpiinal band, rather narrow 

 and uniform in width, bordered on its inner side by a series of small lunular chocolate 

 marks. Hindwing entirely suffused with chocolate colour, bands darker, a sub-basal 

 rather straight narrow band, a medial broader baud divided into four pieces ; the series 

 with a slight inward curve the lowest piece angled, a still broader band from vein 8 

 to vein 3, with its outer margin sinuous and curving outwards, all these bands lined 

 on both sides with dark brown, an indistinct marginal band of disconnected rather 

 large squares. 



Female. Upperside coloured like the male, but duller in colour. Forewing with a 



rather broad black marginal band, broadest at the apex, continued a little on the costa 



and down the outer margin, where it narrows hindwards, and has some short black 



streaks running in on the veins. Hindwing with terminal black line and a sub-terminal 



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