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in the cell and an equally obscure line closing the cell, often entirely obsolete ; 

 transverse band dark, sharply defined, with its centre curved outwards, thus giving 

 it somewhat the shape of a strung bow, the line slightly interrupted at the 

 nervures ; a submarginal row of moderately distinct dark dots ; internal area pale. 

 Secondaries with a white spot below the costal nervure ; a third along it, below which 

 is an obscure, irregular, short line across the cell ; transverse line not far beyond 

 the cell, very irregular, composed of short, white, interrupted marks from the costa 

 (a third from the apex) to near the end of the internal nervure ; these white marks 

 have all a dark diffused internal shading ; the dark submarginal row is lunular, 

 interrupted at each nervure and edged internally with whitish or palely ; the anal 

 angle has more or less metallic scaling, occasionally entirely wanting, often very 

 slight, but sometimes consisting of two large patches of bluish scales with a small 

 spot at the extremity of the fold. The tail of the type specimens is very short, the 

 margin scalloped on each side of it ; this is very variable, however. I have before 

 me some without any tails at all which appear from several localities with the 

 tailed form ; then I have others in which the tail is reduced to a short tooth-like 

 excrescence. 



2 . Upperside : both wings glossed all over with slightly lustrous dull violet-mauve, 

 which makes the species immediately recognizable from all others of the genus. 

 I have a second form which is entirely glossed with steel-blue ; both have precisely 

 the same underside as the male just described. This is evidently a case of a dimorphic 

 female. 



Dr. Staudinger's types of S. palowna are before me, and they are absolutely the 

 same as the specimen labelled amisena in Hewitson's collection, each having slight 

 tails. Mr. Druce is correct in saying, in his Bornean paper (P. Z. S. 1895, p. 588), 

 " that the characters he mentions, of the tails, will be found to be insufficient to separate 

 amisena and paloivna." 



Hewitson's figures show the tails very considerably longer than appears in any 

 specimen that I have seen. I hope that my figures of both forms of the female of 

 this species will prevent further confusion. 



Surendra florimel Doherty. 



Surendra florimel Doherty, J. A. S. B. vol. lviii. pt. 2, p. 424, pi. xxiii. figs. 17 <$ , 4 ? (1889); 



de is'iceville, Butt. India, vol. hi. p. 223 (1890). 

 Surendra stimula de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. ix. pi. O. fig. 23 (1895). 



Hah. Wagung, Tavoy District ; Burma; Sumatra; Java. 

 Expanse, d & ? , 35-39 mm. 



<5 . Above rich purple-blue from the costal vein to the hind margin, the blue 

 area outwardly angled at the upper median vein, and occupying nearly half of the 



