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de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 96 (1890); id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 297. 
Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 622. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 293. Butler, Ann. 
Mag. Nat. Hist. 1900, p. 442. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 319 (1907). 
Lycsenopsis marginata, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 447 (text fig. 83). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1 la, ?, lb, f). 
Imago.- —Male. Upperside with broad costal and outer marginal bands on both 
wings. Forewing with a black spot at the end of the cell, touching the costal band; 
the inner area suffused with blackish with blue iridescence, except for two white 
streaks w T hich fill up the two interspaces above vein 2, with a small white streak in the 
interspace above them ; the lower streak sometimes is more or less suffused with blue 
on its outer part. Hindwing similarly coloured, with a white patch on its upper disc 
which varies in size. Underside greyish-white, with a slight bluish tint, markings 
brown, prominent; a lunule at end of cell, a row of post-discal spots close to the sub¬ 
terminal line, the second and third the largest, the third, fourth and fifth often joined 
together, the sixth inwards and near the costa. Hindwing with the usual three 
sub-basal black spots in a line, a fourth black spot near the abdominal margin nearer 
the base; a discal whorl of spots of the usual pattern, the first, third and sub-costal 
spots the largest; both wings with a sub-terminal angulated line ; a black marginal 
line and a series of black spots between them. Cilia white, w T ith minute brown marks. 
Antennae black, ringed with white; head and body black above, white beneath. 
Female, like the male, the blue iridescence less. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ 1 T % to 1-^ inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs. 1c, <£, Id, $, le, $). 
Male. Upperside. Forewing like the Wet-season form, but the white area is 
much more extensive and the general coloration is paler, the blue iridescence more 
brilliant. Hindwing paler, the discal white patch larger, the marginal band replaced 
by a sub-terminal blackish lunular line, a black marginal line, enclosing a series of small 
blackish spots. Underside with the markings disposed as in the other form, but much 
smaller and faintly indicated. 
Female, like the male above and below, but paler above, the white patch on the 
forewing occupying two-thirds of the inner space, the base and lower portions only 
being suffused with pale brownish and blue iridescence ; on the hindwing above there 
is a black spot at the end of the cell; otherwise it is similar to the male. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ 1 t 3 -q to 1 T \ inches. 
Habitat. —Himalayas, Upper Burma, Assam. 
Distribution. —Becorded by de Niceville from Chin Lushai, Naini Tal, Kumaun, and 
Fort Stedman ; by Elwes from the Karen Hills | in our collection from the Khasia Hills 
and from Sikkim ; it is in the B. M. also from Nepal, Tilin Yaw and Thoungyon Valley. 
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