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certain lights. Forewing with a black costal line which thickens outwards, the outer 

 marginal band black and broad, broadest at the apex and hinder angle, running also 

 narrowly for a short distance up the hinder margin in most examples ; veins black. 

 Hindwing nearly all black, the green colour more or less limited to the cell area and a 

 little beyond, and usually with some green scales above the sub-costal vein. Cilia 

 black ; tail black, tipped with white ; a very small projection at the end of vein 3. 

 Underside pale brown, or greyish-brown, with a slight pinkish tint ; spots rather 

 small, more or less of uniform size, their colour brown, edged with dull pale whitish. 

 Forewing with a round spot in the cell a third from the base, a larger, oval spot in the 

 middle, and a still larger, squarish spot closing the cell ; a small round spot in the 

 base of the third interspace, an upwardly pointed spot in the next lower interspace a 

 little inside, a discal band of seven spots, the first four from the costa, conjoined and 

 outwardly oblique, the lowest slightly larger than the others and a very little outside 

 them, the next three in a straight line hindwards, its outer, upper end just touching 

 the lower, inner end of the fourth spot, terminal line pale brown, a sub-terminal series 

 of pale brown lunules, and between them an indistinct smaller series. Hindwing, 

 usually darker than the forewing and more uniform in shade of colour ; three sub-basal 

 small spots in a line, followed by three larger spots in a line, the lowest V-shaped, a 

 narrow bar at the end of the cell, a discal whorl of nine spots, curved in the shape of 

 the outer margin of the wing, somewhat irregular in form, the third, fifth and seventh 

 from the costa shifted a little outside the others, the sixth and seventh lunular, whence 

 it curves inwards, the eighth and ninth running up to the abdominal margin, terminal 

 line whitish, a sub-terminal acutely angled brown line, and between them a series of 

 faintly indicated brownish lunules ; a very small anal lobe with a black lunular spot 

 followed by two other sub-terminal smaller spots, but very often these spots are obso- 

 lescent and sometimes entirely absent. 



Female. Upperside dark lilac-blue. Forewing with broad costal and outer 

 marginal black border, and often with a large black spot at the end of the cell which is 

 merged in the costal border. Hindwing nearly all black, the blue confined to the basal 

 and abdominal half of the wing : on both wings the extent of the blue colour varies much 

 in different examples. Underside as in the male, but the discal band of the forewing 

 is continuous, except that the fifth spot from the costa is shifted a little outside, but 

 the black anal spots on the hindwing are nearly always present, the lobe spot often 

 large and round and edged on both sides with white, and all three spots capped with 

 golden green, but the feature of these anal spots diff'ers much in different examples. 

 Antennae black ; palpi black above, grey beneath ; head and body black above, with 

 green pubescence, brown beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1-^-q to 2yV inches. 



Genitalia. — Very specialised, the tegumen is much less ample and distinctly 



