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black spots near the anal angle, all three spots with metallic blue-green scales, tail 

 black, tipped with white. Cilia whitish, with a grey medial band. Antennae black, 

 with white speckles at the sides ; head and body purplish-brown above, whitish beneath, 

 the palpi with black hairs. 



Female. Upperside white, with glistening blue scaling in parts. Forewing with 

 black marginal band, broadest at the apex, and extended along the costa, narrowing to 

 the base of the wing ; most of the wing with blue scales, except a small portion in the 

 upper disc. Hindwing with the costa very broadly blackish, the outer margin with an 

 even narrow band composed of a double row of lunular spots, the outer ones the largest 

 and blackest, each capped with a white lunule, terminal line black, edged inwardly by 

 a white line broken by the veins, the disc of the wing more or less white below the 

 costal blackish space. Underside as in the male, but the markings are more prominent, 

 and the brown colour between the lines darker than the ground colour of the wing. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1-ro inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 3c, t, 3d, $). 



Male and Female coloured and marked on the upperside like the Wet-season form, 

 but the female, in most examples, has the inner portion of the forewing nearly all 

 white, the colour of the underside is much paler, and the markings more or less 

 indistinct. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 to 1 jq- inches. 



Larva. — Feeds on Eruhelia rohusta, the back elevated and the segments most 

 distinctly defined ; the anal segment is flattened ; the back forms a distinct ridge, the 

 colour is green, but there is a purple line along the ridge of the back ; the other 

 segments are also edged with the same colour. The head is small, amber-coloured, 

 with a darker border. 



Pupa. — Short and stout, constricted slightly between the thorax and the 

 abdomen, and has slight traces of a ridge along the back. In colour it is a dingy 

 greyish-brown, powdered with black. There is an interrupted dark band along the 

 middle of the back, and also spots of blackish on the abdominal segments and just 

 beyond the wing covers and the sides of the thorax. It is smooth and only fastened 

 at the tail parallel with the leaf to which it is attached. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat.— Sikkim, Bhutan, Burma, Ceylon, Southern India, Nicobars, and the 

 Malay Peninsula ; the type came from Java. 



DfSTRiBUTiON.— de Niceville records it from Malda, Cachar, Bingham from the 

 Shevaroy Hills, Tenasserim and the Nicobars, Hampson from the Nilgiris, de Ehe- 

 Philipe from the Konkan, Manders from the Shan States ; we have it in our collection 

 also from the Khasia Hills, Kanara, Koorg, Ceylon, Andamans, Mahableshwar, Madras, 

 Borneo, Celebes, N. Guinea and the Philippines. 



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