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and sometimes obsolescent, in the interspaces beyond the cell ; 

 cilia white. Underside with the costa o£ fore wing streaked with 

 green ; a white streak in the interno-median interspace : hind wing 

 with a white streak in the cell and three below it ; a submarginal 

 series of blue spots on both wings. 



Hob. Hongkong ; Sikhim : Sylhet ; Cachar ; Burma ; Nicobars ; 

 Andamans. Exp. 46-56 millim. 



546. Pintia cyanea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xii, p. 160. 



Differs from ferrea in the wings being without the whitish spots 

 above ; hind wing shot with brilliant metallic blue, abdomen with 

 greenish blue. 



Hab. Mergui ; Sumatra. Exp. 46 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with vein 6 not stalked with 7. 



547. Pintia latipennis, Hmpsn. 111. Set. viii, p. 45, pi. cxxxix, 



fig-. 22. 



S . Differs from ferrea in the antennae being darker bine ; 

 thorax and fore wing uniform vinous red, the latter with the 

 oblique band and two spots beyond the cell obsolescent ; abdomen 

 and hind wing uniform brown, the latter with one white spot 

 beyond the cell, the lower spots being obsolete ; cilia brown. 

 Underside without the costal green streak to fore wing or blue 

 submarginal spots. The wings broader. 



Hab. JNIlgiris, "W. slopes, 3000 feet, Aug. Exp. 56 millim. 



Genus HETERUSIA. 



Eterusia, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. p. 445 (1841). 

 Devanica, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 355. 

 Sephisa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p. 41 (1883). 



Type, E. tricolor, Hope. 



Range. China ; Himalayas ; Assam ; Sylhet ; Burma ; S. India ; 

 Ceylon; Cambodia; Java. 



Fore wing with veins 6, 7, 8, and 9 stalked together ; 11 not 

 anastomosing with 12. 



Sect. I. The outer margin of the fore wing nearly straight* 

 A. The abdomen blue-green above. 



548. Heterusia raja, Moore, Lep. E. J. Co. p. 320, pi. viii. a, fig. 2 ; 



C. Sr S. no. 381. 



$ . Head and thorax green ; collar narrowly crimson ; antennae 

 and abdomen metallic blue, the latter with a green tinge and 

 yellow below. Fore wing bright green, with an outwardly- 

 oblique yellow maculate band from the costa beyond the middle to 

 near outer angle ; the spots outwardly edged with black ; the veins 

 between them blue. Hind wing yellow ; the veins bordered with 

 black ; a curved black band from the lower angle of cell to the 



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