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and fills up the cell, all except a small portion at its base, extends beyond the cell, its 

 lower portion sometimes, but not always, touching the broad outer marginal black 

 band, leaving a thin blue space between them ; the marginal band varies much in 

 depth in different examples, is very deeply excavated just above the hinder angle, and 

 sometimes contains some small blue sub-marginal spots ; there is also a small black 

 spot in the middle of the interno-medial interspace, which iu some examples is 

 elongated into a longitudinal bar. Hindwing with a very broad, black, costal band, 

 covering nearly the upper third of the wing, a series of black sub-marginal spots, 

 sometimes joined together, some smaller black spots close to the outer margin. Cilia 

 of both wings black, with white tips. Underside grey, markings pale chocolate-brown. 

 Foreunng with bands across the cell, composed of conjoined spots, a discal baud 

 running across the outer end of the cell, followed by a similar transverse band, the 

 outer portion of the wing with a number of triangular-shaped, irregular marks in 

 irregular order very difficult to describe, a black spot capped with pale orange near the 

 hinder margin at the lower end of the outer band. Hindwing crossed by eight 

 similar bands at equal distances apart, covering the whole surface of the wing, all the 

 bands on both wings composed of irregular lunular marks, with slightly darker edgings, 

 sonde conjoined and some free ; four sub-terminal black spots, the smallest at the anal 

 angle, the others in the first three interspaces, the second spot the largest and capped 

 with orange ; terminal line of both wings brown. Cilia grey. 



Female. Upperside paler blue. Forewing with blackish suffusion at the base, 

 often running into the black spot or bar in the interno-median interspace, leaving the 

 blue space much restricted, but the blue band dividing the costal black band from the 

 marginal band generally clear and well pronounced, and sometimes with some orange 

 suffusion in the upper disc. Hindwing with all but a small bluish space in the disc 

 suffused with blackish-brown, terminal line black edged inwardly by a fine white line. 

 Underside as in the male, but generally paler. Antennse black, ringed with white and 

 with some dull orange at the tips of the clubs ; head and body black above, grey 

 beneath. 



Expanse of wings, $ % ly^o to 1^'q inches. 



Egg. ^According to Doherty the egg is a truncate pyramid, half again as long as 

 wide, with two vertical, two sloping, and two horizontal faces, reticulate above as is 

 usual in the Lyccenidce. It is the most remarkable egg known to me among butterflies. 

 (Doherty's notes, de Niceville.) 



Habitat. — Himalayas at low elevations, Sikkim, Burma. 



Distribution. — de Niceville records it from Garjighat, Kumaun, Sikkim, Chitta- 

 gong Hills, and Burma ; Watson from the Chin Hills ; we have received it from the 

 Khasia Hills and from Silhet, and it is in the B. M. from the Karen Hills, Chindwin, 

 Pegu and the Shan States. 



