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apex obtuse, termen slightly arched and scalloped ; cell opeu ; 

 vein 7 equidistant from 6 and 8. Antennae very long, considerably 

 more than half length or' fore wing ; club long, gradual, obtuse at 

 apex ; palpi short, porrect, third joint short, conical ; eyes naked ; 

 tibiae and femora of intermediate and posterior legs scaled, subequal. 



Key to the forms of Symphaedra. 



a. Band on terminal margin on npperside of fore 

 wing broad, extending to margin, metallic 



green in colour >S'. dirtea, p. 253. 



h. Band on terminal margin on upperside of fore 

 wing much narrower and shorter, not ex- 

 tending to margin, metallic blue or green. [p. 254. 

 a. Underside: ground-colour rich indigo-green. Race cyanipardus, 

 b'. Underside: ground-colour dark ferruginous. Ha,ceJchasiana,^.2o4. 



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a. Spots on upperside of fore wing ochraceous . . S. dirtea, p. 253. 



b. Spots on upperside of fore wirjg pale bluish 



white. 

 a'. Underside : ground-colour of hind wing [p. 254. 



bluish green Race cyanipardus, 



b'. Underside : ground-colour of hind wing 



ochraceous Race hhasiana, p, 254. 



278. SymphaBdra dirtea, Fabr. (Papilio) Ent. Syst. iii, pt. 1, 1793, 

 p. 59 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 189; Moore (Adolias), Lep. 

 2nd. iii, 1896-99, p. 68, pi. 213, figs. 2,2 a, d 2- 



Race cyanipardus. 

 Symphaedra cyanipardus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 613 ; de N. Butt. 

 Ind. ii, 1886, p. 190, pi. 21, fig. 96, J 2; Moore (Adolias), Lep. 

 Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 71, pi. 215, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, tf $ . 



Race khasiana (PI. V, fig. 34). 

 Symphaedra khasiana, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 284 ; 

 Moore (Adolias), Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 70, pi. 214, figs. 1, 

 1 «-l c, S 2 • 



d . Upperside rich velvety black. Fore wing with some rather 

 obscure small pale ochraceous spots at base below cell and in one 

 or two of the interspaces ; a row of similar better-defined spots 

 along the costal margin ; the preapical spot whitish ; terminal 

 margin with a broad band of greenish blue, decreasing in width 

 from tornus to apex. Hind wing : a much broader band on 

 terminal half of wing, anteriorly metallic blue, not reaching the 

 margin, posteriorly green, diffusedly extending right up to the 

 margin ; this band traversed by a snbterminal row of black spots ; 

 abdominal fold dusky black ; cilia of both wings black alternated 

 with white. Underside rich ochraceous. Fore wing : interspaces 

 1, la, and terminal half of 2 purplish black ; an ^-shaped mark 

 in cell, two spots on the discocellulars, discal, postdiscal and 

 subterminal series of spots ochraceous white ; none of the series 



