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PARERONIA NARAKA. 
Plate 609, figs. 1, £, la, ?, lb, <£, lc, $ (Wet-season Brood), Id, <£, le, <j> , If, $, lg, ? (Dry- 
season Brood). 
Eronia NaraJca, Moore, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 591. 
Eronia Valeria, var. NaraJca, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1880, p. 237 ; id. 
1881, p. 252. 
Pareronia Pingasa, Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 280 (1907), 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, la, $, lb, lc, ?). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside pale blue, a little darker than in Pingasa and of a 
clearer colour. Fovewing with the veins not so broadly black, and the marginal band 
not much more than half as broad ; always with one sub-apical pale small spot in 
it, sometimes with two, three or four minute dots in a row following, consequently 
the blue interspaces beyond the cell are much longer. Hindwing with the black veins 
much as in Pingasa , the exterior marginal black border quite as broad at the apex, but 
not nearly so even in width, narrowing gradually hindwards, the androconia scales 
covering the entire band. Underside much paler, whitish and dull in colour, with all 
the veins as on the upperside, but of a pale blackish colour, the sub-marginal row of 
blackish lunular spots and markings similar. 
Female. Very different to the female of Pingasa, the vein stripes and outer 
border blackish-brown and not deep black as in that species, the pale interspaces 
broader ; on the underside the forewing is similar, but the hindwing has no vein 
stripes, and there is a broad, outer marginal blackish border, containing a row of 
pale sub-marginal lunules. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs. Id, U le, ?, If, lg, $). 
Male. Upperside similarly coloured. Forewing with the black vein markings 
thinner, the exterior marginal black band much less at the apex and narrowing hind- 
wards, the spots within it larger. Underside of a brighter bluish-white colour. Fore¬ 
wing with the vein markings similar, but narrower. Hindwing without black vein 
markings, the outer marginal markings on both wings, faintly indicated. 
Female. Upperside with all the pale stripes broader, the spots larger, those on the 
forewing with a slight blue tint. Underside. Forewing similar. Hindwing without 
vein markings and with a broad blackish outer marginal border, diffuse on its inner 
side ; both wings with thin, sub-marginal pale lunular marks. 
Expanse, £ 2 T 9 ¥ , $ 3^ inches. 
Habitat. —South Andaman Islands. 
Distribution. —In our coilection and in the B. M. from Port Blair. 
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