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is pale, and there are four indistinct pale dots near the outer angle. 

 Below : all the wings black, the markings as above but more distinct, 

 especially the four pale spots of the posterior wings. The anterior 

 margin of these wings wants the pale colour, but has a yellowish dot 

 just within the discoidal cell. Antennae black glossed with blue, head 

 and thorax fuscous shaded with olive-green, the former with a tuft of 

 brilliant blue scales between the antenna;, the latter glossed with blue 

 at the sides, and marked anteriorly witli two white dots. Abdomen 

 above luteous, the two basal segments of a splendid blue, the sides 

 marked with a row of black dots; below black, all the segments mar- 

 gined with whitish. Expanse of wings, 2 inches 9 lines. 

 Inhabits Sylhet, in Bengal. In the British Museum. 



Het. Mdea. P. ^Edea, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 757 ; Clerck, Icon. t. 

 41, fey. 2. Acraea? ^Edea, Godt. Encyc. Meth. ix. 236, no. 19. This 

 species, which Linnaeus described as a Papilio, and which Godart, 

 who had never seen it, thought might be an Acraea, may be at once 

 known from the preceding by the broad whitish or yellow band of the 

 posterior wings, which, commencing on the anterior margin, spreads 

 across the disk so as to occupy more than half the inner and a portion 

 of the outer margin. The space beyond this band is of a most bril- 

 liant blue, with four or more white and five jet black spots, the mar- 

 gin itself being narrowly edged with black. The anterior wings also 



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differ from those of H. Edocla in having two additional white spots 

 near the apex, and the blue gloss around the markings is more distinct. 

 These characters will be seen in the accompanying wood-cut, from a 

 specimen in the British Museum, sent by Mr. Stainsforth from Sylhet. 



