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paler than above; forewings with a pale yellow costal streak, which expands before the end; a broad yellow costal 
border to the hindw. Tenasserim, Singapore; Java. Larva injurious to cocoanut palms, has a broad whitish dorsal 
stripe, which contains three dark longitud. lines. Goccoon flat, parchment like; duration of pupal stage 11-14 days. 
A. posthyalina Hamps. Very like A. funeralis Btlr, the second median vein of the forewings nearer posthyalino. 
to the first. Body black; antennae and the borders of the abdominal segments bluish. Forewings brownish 
black, the veins black. Hindwings black, and transpareant from the base to beyond the lower corner of cell. 
Sikkim; 2 ?? in the Elwes collection caught in April. 
A. pluristrigata Hamps. (8d). Body black and yellow. Forew. with yellow streaks; h. w. proximally yellow 
with black veins, distally black with short yellow streaks. - Pulo Laut, south east of Borneo; 1 ? in the British Mus. 
pluristri¬ 
gata. 
A. celebensis spec. nov. (8d). Body above metallic blue, the head and antennae being especially celebensis. 
bright and shining, the latter large with a long white streak behind the middle followed by a white spot. 
Underside of head, palpi, middle and hindlegs, base of the middle and hindtibia as well as the brest and belly 
cream colored, the tarsi with similar ends. Uppersides of wings purple brown, fringes white, hindwings with 
a white central streak. Forewings beneath suffused with white basally, especially behind, the tips purple brown 
like the hindwings, with a weak blue sheen; hindwings with a white smudge on the median vein and undecided 
streaks on and behind the costal border. The first pair of spurs on the rear tarsi are just behind the middle. 
The 3 ,h radial and f st median veins of the hindwings very shortly stalked. — South Celebes, 1 ? found by Doherty 
in August or September 1891. 
2. Genus: C'lelea Walk. 
Antennae of cT pectinated, weakly toothed at the end, simple in ?, and grooved in lengthwise beneath. 
Palpi short. Forehead slightly protruding. Hindtibia with two pairs of spurs, the first pair at about 3 / 4 or 
4 /s of the tibia, the long spurs reaching generally to near the base of the apical spurs. Veins of both wings 
arise from the cell, the 1st. radial of the hindwings is generally present in the blue spotted forms (Clelea), 
but wanting in the white spotted forms (Ghrysartona). India to New Guinea; China. 
C. sapphirina Walk. (Vol. 2, PI. 3h). Fore wings with two basal streaks of which one is situated below sapphirina. 
the costa and the other on the hind margin, a transverse band before the centre and three spots in the outer 
portion of the forewings, of which the two upper ones form an ellipse, which is broken on the inner and 
outer border and further a well defined thin submarginal line, all of which are metallic blue. Hindwings 
brownish black, with or without a blue streak. Undersides with several blue smudges. The extent of the blue 
sheen on the body is variable. China, North India. 
C. discriminis Swinh. (8d). Very similar to the former, smaller, the basal streaks or all markings of discrirninis. 
the forewings greenish, the second basal streak is situated on the median vein and not on the hind margin; 
the submarginal line not so sharp, frequently only just indicated or entirely wanting. North India. 
C. chala Moore (8d). The markings of the forewings are connected with one another to form a network; chala. 
undersides, especially of the forewings with the blue much extended. The 1st. radial vein of the hindwings 
is wanting, as also the first pair of spurs on the hindlegs (Always?). Java. 
C. nigroviridis Eliv. Resembles chala, the markings green. Abdomen only weakly metallic at the base; nigroviridis. 
forewings beneath with a small metallic streak in the middle, hindwings with extensive green blue. Hind legs 
with two pairs of spurs. Fringes grey. Northeast India and Burmah. 
C. refulgens Hamps. (8d). Body above metallic green, bluish in front; brest bluish green; underside of refulgens. 
abdomen copper coloured, antennae blue. Wings black; forewings from the base to nearly the middle of the wing 
metallic green, distally from the end of the cell a large green metallic spot, behind which more to the rear 
another small spot is situated; a weak submarginal line which is more bluish. Hindwings metallic blue from 
the hindmargin to the cell, the fringes white. Forewings beneath with a blue costal streak and a similar median 
streak. Hindwings mostly blue, but black from the apex to the tip of the cell, a thin blue well defined 
submarginal line, which is continued from the costal margin to the base. — Khasia Hills, Assam, Burmah. 
C. metacyanea Hmps. (8d). Head, thorax, and the underside of the body lead colored, with weak violet metacyanea. 
flush; upperside of abdomen and the forewings from the hind border to the cell metallic blue. The basal third of 
the uppersides of forew, a central band as well as a weak submarg. band lead colored, somewhat violet. Hindwings 
almost the same below as above, the forewings on the other hand with no markings underneath. Khasia Hills. 
C. plumbeola Hamps. (8d). Body weakly metallic. Forewings with indistinct bands before the middle of plumheola. 
the wing and an angled band in the outer third, both lead colored, with a sprinkling of white scales. Hindwings 
uniform brown. Beneath both wings have blue scales on the costal borders. Khasia Hills in Assam and Burmah. 
C. simplex spec. nov. Antennae and body metallic green blue. Wings more pointed than in the former simplex. 
species, the distal border more oblique; uppersides brown black, with a very faint purple tinge, without 
markings, undersides somewhat paler, also without spots. Khasia Hills, Assam; 1 ? in the Tring Museum. 
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