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margin and the medial white band as on the npperside, but the 

 latter not clearly defined, broader not macular ; the posterior half 

 of wing at base, the disc below the medial band, the costal margin 

 near apex, and the posterior two-thirds of the terminal margin 

 shaded with dark brown. 



Exp. <5 2 56-60 mm. (2-19-2-38"). 



Hob. The hills of Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; extending to 

 the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. 



Var. libera, de IS'iceville, is probably a race or a dimorph of 

 roliini; it differs chiefly in the "spot in the cell and the one 

 below it in the first median interspace (interspace 2) of the fore 

 wing not being ' pure white ' but outwardly denned with ochreous 

 the discal band ochreous instead of pure white." It occurs with 

 roliini in Assam, but seems to be the common form in Burma. 



The next two forms are possibly dimorphs or seasonal forms of 

 one insect, but, so far as I know, only the males of the smaller 

 form have been procured, and I have not access to a sufficient 

 series to more than hazard this conjecture. 



458. Libythea geoffroyi, Godart, Encycl. Meth. ix, 1823, p. 813. 



Race alompra. 



Libythea alompra, Moore, Lep. Incl v, 1901-1903, p. 59, pi. 394, 



figs. 4, 4 a, c?. 

 Libythea geoffroyi, de Niceville (tiec Godart), Jour. Bomb. N. H. 



Soc. v, 1890, p. 205, pi. D, %.5J. 



Race alompra, Moore. — <S . Uppersidejpale brown. Fore wing : 

 the cell, basal two-thirds of interspaces 1 «, 1, 2 and 3, and 

 the extreme base of interspace 4 suffused with a beautiful pale 

 violescent blue ; a curved series of three subquadrate preapical 

 white spots. Hind wing : cell suffused with violescent blue 

 extending faintly into interspaces 4, 5 and 6 ; a faintly-marked 

 dull orange band below the lower apex of cell. Underside pale 

 brown. Fore wing : apex grey, irrorated with minute dark spots ; 

 cell with a broad dull orange streak from base, followed by a 

 violescent transverse spot in apex of cell; a large discal dull 

 violescent spot in interspace 2 spreading slightly into interspace 3, 

 the curved series of three preapical spots as on the upperside 

 but faintly dull violescent. Hind wing greyish brown, irrorated 

 with dark spots and transverse dark striae and shaded with darker 

 brown ; the medial dull orange band replaced by a similar pale well- 

 marked band. Antennas, head and abdomen pale brown ; thorax 

 darker brown with a little greenish pubescence posteriorly; beneath, 

 the palpi, thorax and abdomen pale greyish brown. — 2 • " Upper- 

 side: fore wing with the violet area duller and confined to the 

 immediate base of the wing ; a quadrate white spot at the end of 

 the discoidal cell ; a tripartite subcostal spot ; another elongated 

 spot from the third median to the upper discoidal nervule, placed 

 outwardly below it ; a large quadrate discal spot, completely 



