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hindwing with three black spots from anal angle, bordered by a marginal slender 

 greyish-blue line. Female violet-brown, the basal and discal medial areas, including 

 the cell, pale blue : hindwing with an outer marginal slender black and white line 

 and blackish pale-bordered spots, the second and third anal spot darkest, the third 

 bordered within by a red lunule ; tails with red and white borders. Underside 

 greyish buff- white : forewing with two pale reddish-brown spots within the cell, 

 another below the cell, a paler discocellular lunule, a transverse catenulated band, 

 and a less distinct submarginal lunular line : hindwing with two reddish-brown spots 

 on inner side of costal vein, two within the cell, two below the cell, one on abdominal 

 margin, a paler discocellular lunule, a broken catenulated discal band bent up at 

 lower end, and a submarginal lunular line ; three anal black spots, the first and third 

 with red inner border, the middle spot almost obliterated by blue-grey speckles. 

 Body and palpi above brown. 



Expanse, $ If, ? If inch. 



Larva elongated, dorsally thickened, sloping at both ends ; green, the segments 

 with lateral purple-brown small pointed tubercles, which are stouter and longer on 

 the anterior; a pale yellowish lateral line between the tubercles. Earlier stage 

 purple-brown. Pupa green, spotted with purple-brown. 



" Feeds on Terminalia" {Thwaites). 



" Colombo. On cashew-trees in the cinnamon gardens. Fhght rapid, darting 

 from tree to tree, often settling on the cashew and cinnamon leaves " (Hutchison). 



" Kandy ; Hambantotte ; Colombo ; settles on rather high bushes ; when 

 disturbed circles round and soon returns. Common" [Wade). 



Genus IRAOTA. 



Forewing triangular; exterior margin slightly oblique and convex below the 

 apex ; cell somewhat fusiform, extending to more than half the wing ; costal vein 

 curved ; first subcostal emitted at more than half before end of the cell, second at 

 one-third, and third at one-fifth before end of the cell, third trifid, fourth at more 

 than one-half from below third, fifth at one-half from below fourth and terminating 

 below the apex ; discocellulars bent inward close to subcostal, upper radial from 

 subcostal end of the cell, lower radial from the angle close to subcostal ; middle median 

 at one-fifth, lower at one-third before end of the cell ; submedian nearly straight. 

 Male with a tuft of hair on underside of posterior margin : hindwing short, produced 

 and lobed at anal angle ; a slender tail from end of submedian vein in male, and in 

 female a second tail from lower median vein ; exterior margin shghtly sinuous ; male 

 with a shghtly indicated glandular space between the base of costal and subcostal 

 veins ; costal vein much arched at the base; fii'st subcostal at nearly one-half before 



