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LEPID OPT EM A INPICA. 
Pareronia Hippia, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 278 (1907). 
Eronia Gaea, Felder, Reise Roy. Lep. ii. p. 190 (1865). 
Nepheronia Gaea, de Riceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 51. Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, 
p. lo9. Elwes and de Riceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 431. Aitken, Journ. Bo. Rat. 
Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 41. Murray, id. 1888, p. 26. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, 
p. 363. de Riceville, Journ. Bo. Rat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 387. Watson, id. 1891, p. 53. 
Fergusson, id. 1891, p. 445. Aitken and Comber, id. 1903, p. 51. 
Eronia Valeria, Betham (nec Cramer), Journ. Bo. Rat. Hist. Soc. 1892, p. 422. 
Nepheronia ffippia, ah. Livilla, Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1902, p. 300. 
Nepheronia Hippia , ah. Philomela, Fruhstorfer, he. 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, A la, lb, £, 1c, $). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside pale bine of a deeper tint than in Avatar ;> all the 
veins with black bands. Forewing with the costa broadly black, and a rather broad 
black band on the exterior margin, almost uniform in width, two or three sub-apical 
blue spots within the band and two or three below them sub-marginal, the blue stripe 
in the internomedian interspace with an excavation at its extremity, some of the 
others with minute excavations. Idindwing with a slightly broader black band on the 
exterior border, with similar excavations at the ends of the blue interspaces, the costal 
and abdominal spaces white. Underside much paler, the veins and outer marginal bands 
pale blackish, an indistinct row of large pale spots within the band on both wings. 
Female. Upperside black, the markings white tinted with pale blue. Forewing. 
Cell with two streaks, the upper from base to about a third from the end, the lower 
from about the middle to the end; but the length of these streaks is sometimes 
variable, the two extending almost to the end of the cell in some examples; below and 
outside the cell are a series of streaks in the interspaces, in the internomedian 
interspace the streak is long and is split in two, and has two small sub-marginal 
spots near its end, the streaks shorten in length upwards, in the third interspace 
it consists of two elongated spots, there is also a row of more or less round sub¬ 
marginal spots, one near end of each streak, the spot at the end of the broken streak 
is absent. Hindwing with the cell and interspaces below and beyond it with broad 
streaks, the streak in the cell fairly filling it and split in two except at its base, the 
two hindermost streaks the longest, the others varying in length according to the 
length of the interspaces, the third and fourth being the shortest, at their ends are 
sub-marginal spots in an even row, the two lowest ones small, costal and abdominal 
spaces whitish. Underside dull whitish with the blue tint very slight, the markings 
all dull pale blackish, those on the forewing disposed like they are on the upperside, 
but the pale part of the hindwing is more extensive, the veins being thinly marked. 
Antennae black; head, thorax and abdomen blackish-brown, the latter with long 
bluish hairs. 
Expanse, $ £ 3 t 2 q- to 3 t 8 q inches. 
