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bright blue, only visible in some lights, and extending to the hind 

 margin and nearly to the costa. Hindwing bluish-gray over the outer 

 disc from submedian to lower subcostal, and also on the abdominal 

 margin basally, with three somewhat darker spots anally and subanally, 

 of which that between the lower medians is rather distinct. Edge line 

 black, fringe white, cell and the space between the subcostals blue in 

 some lights as on the forewing. Below, whitish with a silky lustre, 

 two dark transverse lines across end of cell of forewing, a dark discal 

 transverse line in two parts, narrowed, and removed inwardly below 

 the upper median. Two darker lines of joined lunules submarginally ; 

 edge line of both wings dark. Hindwing, a black spot near the costa 

 basally, a double streak across end of cell, a dark transverse discal 

 band broken into six pieces, that near the costa being nearly black, a 

 submarginal line of streaks backed by a continuous irregular dark- 

 gray line, a black spot surrounded with dark ochreous between the 

 lower median branches, a smaller similar spot on the lobe. 



Female, black, forewing with a whitish discal area most distinct 

 between the median branches, but extending beyond, and entering the 

 interno-median space as a pale band. Cilia white, especially at the lower 

 angle. Disc of hindwing with a pale area cut by dark veins, a sub- 

 marginal white line and an obscurely darker subanal spot near the 

 margin. Both sexes have four tails, of which, unlike othona, the outer 

 ones are much the shorter. My specimens agree with Sikkim males in 

 Mr. de Niceville's collection ; the Sikkim female I have not seen. They 

 are much darker than Mr. Hewitson's figures. My two males were both 

 taken flying in a flock of the common Gyaniris puspa, from which I could 

 not distinguish them till I caught them. If this is a case of mimicry, it 

 is the first, I believe, yet observed in the LyccBnidcB. 



142. Chliaeia othona, Hew. Lower Gori, E. Kumaon, 2,500 

 feet, Kapkot, IS". W. Kumaon, 4,000 feefc. Male beautifully glossed 

 with dark blue on the forewing beyond the cell, seen only in certain 

 lights. Female, the pale blue of the male, replaced by a pale gray area 

 from the hindmargin of the forewing to the middle median. Hind- 

 wing with a similar area (without any trace of blue) extending nearly 

 to the margin, where there is a dark subanal spot with fainter ones 

 near it. Marginal black and white edge-lines as in male. Below 

 like the male, marks somewhat paler, subanal black spot bordered 

 narrowly with pale ochre, wings wider and more roanded than in the 

 male. 



143. iLERDA oda, Hew. Naini Tal, 6,000—7,000 feet. 



144. Ilerda BRAHMA, Moore. Naini Tal, Loharkhet, 5 — 7,000 feet. 



145. Ilerda sena, Koll, Kumaon generally, extending up to 



