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until it becomes white at the outer portion, a black spot at the end of the cell, 
touching the costal band. Hindwing with a broad costal blackish band ; some black 
anticiliary spots, inwardly edged with white ; the inner portion of the wing sufiused 
with greyish-blue, darkest at the base, and whitish at its outer portion ; underside as 
in the male. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ 1 T ^- inches. 
Habitat. —Nilgiri Hills. 
There are two examples, male and female types in the B. M., and one male in our 
collection, de Niceville’s type from the same locality is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
LYCiENOPSIS CYANESCENS. 
Plate 621, figs. 2 $, 2a, J • 
Cyaniris cycinescens, de ISTiceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 103, Frontispiece, fig. 129, $ (1890). 
Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 326 (1907). 
Lycsenopsis cyanescens, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 438. 
Cyaniris prominens, de Niceville, l.c. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside deep rich iridescent blue. Forewing with a black 
costal line and narrow outer marginal band. j Hindwing with the costal space 
blackish, and a narrow marginal band, rather broader than it is on the forewing, all 
the veins rather prominent. Underside greyish-white markings, brown. Forewing 
with a thin lunular line at the end of the cell, and a post-discal series of short linear 
marks rather close to the outer margin ; the third from the bottom, much outwards, 
being close to the sub-terminal line; the fourth much outwardly oblique, the sub-costal 
spot on the inside as usual. Hindwing with a lunular line at the end of the cell, the 
sub-basal spots and discal series as usual, but the spot at each end of the latter large 
and black, both wings with the usual terminal line and sub-terminal series of lunules 
and spots ; on the forewing these spots are minute and indistinct; on the hindwing 
they are black, and the middle ones large and prominent. Cilia brown tipped with 
white; antennae black ringed with white ; head and body above blackish-brown 
covered with brilliant iridescent blue, below white. 
Expanse of wings, inches. 
The above description is from an example in coll. Bingham. 
Female. Upperside, both wings blackish. Forewing with the disc whitish, 
glossed with brilliant iridescent blue in some lights; a distinct discocellular spot. 
Hindwing with the costa broadly blackish, the disc as in the forewing, a sub-marginal 
series of blackish oval spots, inwardly defined by a blue, then a distinct lunulated 
blackish line. Underside as in the male. 
Expanse of wings, 1 T V to 1 T V inches (de Niceville). 
Habitat. —Nicobar Islands. 
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