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Cilia black, tails black, a rather long tail at the end of vein 2, slight projections at the 

 ends of all the other veins of the hindwing, more pronounced at the ends of veins 1 

 and 3 than at the ends of the others. Underside grey suffused with pinkish-brown, the 

 lower portion of forewing pale, the hindwing darker than the forewing, but varying 

 much in shade of colour, spots and bands chocolate-brown. Forewing with a small spot 

 in the cell near the base, a larger one in the middle, four conjoined spots at the end, the 

 third from the upper end minute and sometimes absent, a discal band of conjoined 

 spots from the costa to vein 2, increasing in size hind wards, the band slightly outwardly 

 curved, sometimes very nearly straight down, but the middle spot is always a little 

 outside the others, all these spots and bands edged with bluish-white ; a sub-terminal 

 indistinct brown band and still more indistinct terminal band. Hindwing with four 

 sub-basal spots, three in a row, the fourth near the abdominal margin, followed by two 

 spots, an outwardly curved bar at the end of the cell, with dark brown edges, with two 

 spots in an inward curve below it, a discal outwardly curved irregular band of spots 

 and curves, commencing on the costa with a large brown patch composed of two 

 squarish spots joined together, a sub-marginal lunular thick brown line and an 

 anteciliary thinner line, both more or less lunular, the latter edged outwardly with 

 bluish-white near the anal angle where there is a black spot in the lobe capped with 

 bluish-white, the bands with indications of very indistinct similar bands between 

 them, a black terminal line. Antennae black ; palpi black above, whitish beneath ; 

 head and body blackish-brown above, grey beneath. 



Female. Upperside paler and t>righter blue merging into black on the outer 

 parts, forming broad costal and outer marginal bands on the Forewing, with generally 

 a black spot at the upper end of the cell ; the Hindwing with similar costal and 

 marginal bands, narrowing much in the middle of the outer margin, then broadening 

 hindwards with some blackish suffusion running up near the abdominal space, which is 

 pale. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ % 2 y^ to 2-j^ inches. 



Larva, elongated, oval, depressed at the ends, anterior segment scutate, with a 

 lateral row of fine short hairs ; colour green, with two sub-dorsal reddish lines, a red 

 patch on the second and last segments, the inter-dorsal space marked with blackish 

 spots and lines ; a lateral row of spots. 



Pupa, broad, thorax convex, head slightly produced, thorax and wing cases 

 greenish, abdomen reddish. (Moore.) 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon, Andamans. 



Distribution. — de Niceville records it from Dehra Dhun, Sikkim and Calcutta, 

 Moore from Ceylon, Watson from Mysore, Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussuri, 

 Hannyngton from Kumaon, Aitken and Comber from Salsette and Karanja near 

 Bombay, Betham from the Central Provinces, Doherty from Margherita in Upper 



