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extreme grayish fringe : in the female the wings have a hi'oad brown border, the blue colour 

 being brighter than in the male, covered with a silvery gloss, confined to the base in the hinder 

 wings, but spreading also over the disk in . the fore wings ; in the posterior wings the margin 

 bears a series of ocellate spots, increasing in intensity of tint towards the caudal appendage, 

 where the ocellus is intensely black and surrounded interiorly by a rufous crescent, the remain- 

 ing ocelli have narrow white semilunar borders within and transverse marginal lines without ; a 

 series of lunular white marks passes regularly along the inner border of the marginal ocelli and 

 a few obscure spots form an irregular arch across the disk. Underneath the mngs are pale 

 whitish-gray, and marked with catenulated bands, consisting each of two parallel undulated 

 marginal threads of a brilliant white, including a broader fascia of a somewhat deeper shade than 

 the ground colour ; in ihe anterior wings & short fascia is placed transversely on the disk, the 

 next posteriorly extends entirely across the surface ; in the posterior pair three similar fasciee are 

 disposed in succession, the anterior one is composed of two narrow interrupted portions, the 

 second is short and stands transversely on the disk, the third is irregular and extends in an inter- 

 rupted course entirely across the wing and in the anal region is suddenly inflected and composed 

 of short arcs ; three white striga pass in both wings parallel with the posterior margin, the 

 exterior one is obsolete and bounded by a brown marginal thread, the two next are waving, and 

 include two undulated bands of the ground colour resembling the adjoining catenulated bands ; 

 the exterior margin of the fore-wings has in the middle a minute ocellate spot with a white 

 annulet, and in the same margin of the hinder wings, near the costa, are two somewhat more 

 saturated ocelli, separated by a small intervening space ; in the anal region there are four ocelli, 

 the exterior one, near the caudal appendage, is very large, nearly round, of a deep black colour, 

 abruptly truncated and ornamented posteriorly with a streak of golden irrorations and sur- 

 mounted interiorly and at the sides with a large rufous crescent ; the remaining ocelli are nar- 

 row and obscure, the interior one consists of a small dot at the extreme anal angle, and the 

 intermediate ones are ovate and united into a reniform spot, the penultimate one being orna- 

 mented with a streak of metallic irrorations ; along their inner edge passes a white streak and 

 interiorly of this a faint waving rufous band. The thorax and abdomen agree above and under- 

 neath, in colour with the wings ; the eyes are bordered, the tails are tipt with white, and the 

 antennce are marked with white bands. 



The Lycana Kandarpa has, both in habit and in colour above, a great resemblance to Lyccena Boetica ; but 

 in the forewings the outer apical angle is more acute in both sexes, while the hinder wings are slightly 

 lengthened towards the anal extremity in the male, and more abruptly rounded in the female. Our insect 

 exhibits clearly the typical character of this section ; the bands on the lower surface imitate the appearance 

 of chains or necklaces, in consequence of the margins which are strongly undulated, and the base of the 

 hinder wings is provided with dark ocellate spots encircled with white ; these two marks, on which the 

 sectional character is founded, exist in all the remaining Javanese species oi Lyccena. Four male and three 

 female specimens are contained in our museum, several of which are from the continent of India, and illus- 

 trate the range of this species in the old world : Mr. Haworth's collection contains a male specimen, agreeing 

 in all points with our insect, which was found in a box imported from Brazil. 



18. Lyc^na Cnejus. Alee supra foeminse ad basin, anticce usque ad discum laete ccerulem, argenteo 

 nitidcR, limbis exteriore et posteriore fuscis ; posticce serie pmictorum ocellatorum, ocellis duobus 

 analibus saturatioribus rufo annulatis, penultimo insigniore, omnibus postici abrupti terminatis ; 



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