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colour ; the bases of the wings, the costal margin preapically of 

 the fore wing, and the terminal half of both fore and hind wings 

 slightly suffused with grey. Antennae dark ochraceous ; head, 

 thorax and abdomen very dark brown, beneath brownish white, 

 paler than in D. teuta g . — $. "Larger and very much paler 

 than the male ; anterior wings above with the transverse pale 

 spots with a slight bluish tinge, the lowermost broken and 

 duplex, the dark submarginal fascia (as in male) broken into a 

 series of spots in female, and placed in a more or less bluish-grey 

 area ; posterior wings above with the pale spots very small, and 

 not extending beneath the upper median nervule, a small dark 

 spot at end of cell and a waved submarginal dark fascia placed on 

 a somewhat paler area. Wings beneath much paler than above ; 

 anterior wings with the spots in the cell larger and brighter, 

 greyish-white spots as above, followed by a series of dark purplish 

 spots, much smaller than those above ; posterior wings with a 

 small spot in cell as above, and a discocellular spot at end of cell, 

 the series of pale spots as above but continued to abdominal 

 margin a little above anal angle, the last spot being longest, the 

 waved fascia above being replaced by a series of small dark spots 

 as on anterior wings." (Distant.) 



Exp. S 2 78-81 mm. (3-08-3*20"). 



Hah. Malay Peninsula, extending to the extreme south of 

 Tenasserim within our limits. 



Race gupta, de Niceville. — <S . Differs from the <$ of the typical 

 form in being much smaller. Upperside : ground-colour slightly 

 paler; the postdiscal series of dark spots on both wings more 

 conspicuous ; the spots composing the macular discal band with 

 their inner margins more even ; the anterior three spots of the 

 band on the fore wing proportionately not so small. Underside : 

 ground-colour more uniform, of a pale lilacine brown, the lilac 

 tint iridescent, strong only in certain lights. Antennas ochra- 

 ceous ; head, thorax and abdomen brown ; beneath, the palpi, 

 thorax and abdomen pale ochraceous. 



$ . " Differs from the same sex of Symphcedra teuta in its 

 smaller size ; the. upperside has the ground-colour paler. Fore 

 wing w T ith the discal macular white band reduced to five decreasing 

 triangular spots, of which the largest is placed beneath the subcostal 

 nervure, the two subcostal spots obsolete, and the submarginal 

 diffuse spots very small. Hind wing with no trace whatever of the 

 broad white band present in S. teuta, the submarginal black dentated 

 band reduced to a fine dentated line with the diffused obsolescent 

 whitish spots above and below it in each interspace. Underside : 

 fore iving with the same differences as above. Hind vnng with a 

 small white spot on the middle of the costa below the costal 

 nervure, followed by five discal small indistinct blackish spots, one 

 in each interspace, with white linear mark in continuation from 

 the middle of the submedian interspace to the inner margin, and 

 the dentate line of the . upperside obsolescent, represented by an 



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