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at one-sixth, fonrtli at one-half from third and terminating before the apex, fifth 

 from end of the cell ; discocellulars slightly oblique, nearly straight, radial from their 

 middle; cell long, extending to more than half the wing; middle median emitted 

 at one-sixth before end of the cell, lower beyond one-half before the end ; submedian 

 straight : hindwing oval ; exterior margin very convex ; no tail ; costal vein arched 

 at base, extending to apex ; first subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the cell ; 

 upper discocellular oblique, lower erect, radial from their middle ; cell short, broad ; 

 two upper median branches emitted from end of the cell, lower at one-half before the 

 end ; submedian and internal veins straight. Body small, short ; palpi slender, 

 porrect, second joint long, projecting two-thirds beyond the head, attenuated at its 

 tip, clothed with long adpressed scales, third joint very long, naked ; legs slender ; 

 antennae with a stout grooved club. 

 Type, C. Laius. 



CHILADES VARTJNANA (Plate 35, Fig. 3). 

 Pohjommatus Varunana, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. Lond. 1865, p. 772, pi. 41, fig. 6. 



Male. Upperside pale purple-blue ; exterior margins with a slight pale brown 

 border : hindwing with two or three ill-defined pale-bordered black marginal spots 

 from anal angle. Underside lilac-grey: forewing with a brown, white-bordered 

 spot closing the cell, a transverse row of blackish, white-bordered discal spots, and 

 a double row of marginal white-bordered lunules : hindwing with three transverse 

 subbasal, white-bordered black round spots, and a fourth on the middle of the Costa ; 

 a pale brown streak closing the cell; a discal series of dark broAvn spots, a 

 submarginal row of brown lunules, and a marginal series of blackish triangular 

 spots, all bordered with white. Palpi and legs above black, beneath white. Female. 

 Upperside brown : forewing with a lower basal blue patch, and a narrow black spot 

 closing the cell: hindwing with the black marginal spots more defined and white 

 bordered. 



Expanse li^ inch. 



" Colombo. In cinnamon gardens. Not a common insect. Flutters about 

 near the ground and settles upon it " (Hidchison) . 

 " Taken at Kandy " (Wade). 



CHILADES PTJTLI (Plate 35, Fig. 4, 4a). 

 Lyccena Putli, Kollar Hiigel's Eeise, Kashmir, iv. 2, p. 422 (1844). 



Male. Upperside violet-brown : hindwing with indistinct marginal pale-bordered 

 black spots. Cilia cinereous-white. Underside cinereous-brown : forewing with a 



