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Imago. — Male. Upperside shining purplish-black, markings bright blue-green. 

 Forew'mg with a streak immediately below the median vein, from the base, to the end 

 of the cell, where it is slightly thickened upwards ; three small spots iu an outwardly 

 oblique row, below the costa a fourth from the apex, six outer discal spots in an 

 outwardly curved row, increasing in size hind wards, the lowest spot continued in a 

 streak on the hinder margin. H'mdwing with the costal space broadly ochreous- white, 

 a streak down the inner side of the abdominal fold, from the base for about three- 

 fourths, with two spots near its lower end placed longitudinally in the middle of the 

 wing, four sub-terminal, lunular spots, the first small at the anal angle, the others in 

 the following interspaces, the spot next to the -anal spot the largest. Cilia black. 

 Underside. Forewing dark chocolate-brown, an erect white band across the middle of 

 the wing, widening hindwards, continued on its outer side to near the hinder angle, 

 and on its inner side extending over the whole hindward space below the median vein ; 

 a post-discal line of minute white lunules. Hindwing with the basal third chocolate- 

 brown, its inner edge sharply defined, followed by a very broad white band which 

 has on its lower side a row of small brown spots, then a large blackish patch or medial 

 band of irregular spots close together, the middle ones the largest, and all edged with 

 white, the outer portion of the wing is suff'used with paler chocolate-brown of variegated 

 shade, an outwardly curved, somewhat sinuous dark brown post-discal line, edged on 

 both sides with white, this line is almost sub-terminal, and between it and the 

 terminal brown line, which is inwardly edged by a fine white line, is a series of sub- 

 terminal dark brown spots on a whitish ground, one in each interspace. Cilia brown, 

 with white tips. Antennae black, ringed with white, and with some orange-ochreous 

 colour at the tips of the clubs ; palpi, head and body black above, whitish beneath. 



Female, as described by de Niceville. Upperside, both wings shining purplish- 

 fuscous. Forewing with an oval discal pure white spot beyond the discoidal cell, 

 anteriorly bounded by the third median nervule, posteriorly extended slightly beyond 

 the first median nervule. Hindwing much broader than in the male, the outer margin 

 between the terminations of the second and third median nervules produced into a 

 blunt tail-like projection bearing a black spot on the underside ; with faint traces of a 

 series of sub-marginal bluish-white lunules and a marginal very fine white line. 

 Underside both wings as in the male, except that the discal white band on the 

 forewing is posteriorly much wider. Cilia white, here and there touched with fuscous, 

 almost entirely fuscous on the anal half of the hindwing. 



The female is here described for the first time. Its nearest ally is probably my 

 S. solyma from Perak, which, however, has the white spot on the upperside of the 

 forewing bordered with rich iridescent emerald-green, and in some lights is suff'used 

 throughout with this beautiful colour, thereby greatly difiering from the present 

 species. The markings of the underside are, however, entirely diff'erent. I am 



