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texture, but not pubose ; colour dirty green, with a patch of dark green in the centre 
of the back; it is also a good deal mottled everywhere. 
Pupa, fastened by the tail along a leaf, narrow, without projections of any kind ; 
of a greenish-brown, minutely dotted with darker brown. (Davidson, Bell and 
Aitken.) 
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Habitat. —India, Burma, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra. 
Distribution. —The type came from Borneo, Wood-Mason and de Niceville record 
it from Cachar, Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussuri, 3,000 feet elevation, Moore 
from Ceylon, Distant from the Malay Peninsula, Elwes from the Karen Hills, Watson 
from the Chin Hills, Aitken and Comber from Bassein and Thanna, near Bombay, 
Hampson from the Nilgiris, de Niceville from Chin Lusliai, Orissa, Cannanore, South 
India, the Shevroy Hills, Mergui and Myitta in Tenasserim; we have it from Sikkim, 
and have received many examples from the Khasia Hills; our description and figures 
are from a Khasia Hill pair ; it is in the B. M. also from Sumatra. 
CATAPCECILMA DELICATUM. 
Plate 706, figs. 2, d, 2a, ?, 2b, $. 
CatapoEcihna delicatum , de Niceville, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 455 j id. Butt, of India, iii. p. 422 
(1890). 
Catapoecilma bubases, de Niceville (nec Hewitson), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 118, pi. 2, 
%. lb ^,1, ? . 
Imago. —Male. Upperside, both wings smoky purplish-black, obscurely shot with 
purple in some lights. Forewing with the lower discal and basal areas powdered with 
dull blue scales, winch are obsolete in some specimens. Hindwing with tw T o very fine 
silvery lines on the margin of the anal angle. Tail black, tipped with white. Cilia 
blackish, marked with white towards the anal angle of the forewing, and throughout 
the hindwing. Underside, both wings chrome-yellow 7 , densely and evenly striated with 
black, and with scattered greenish-silvery metallic spots and streaks, some of wdiieh 
form a marginal series. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing pale blue, with the costa, apex widely, and the 
outer margin blackish. Bmdwing with all but the outer margin, which is blackish, 
pale blue; towards the anal angle there is first a fine blue line, then a yellow one 
defined on both sides with a black one, and then another pale blue line. Underside, 
both wfings as in the male, (de Niceville.) 
Expanse of wings, £ $ 1 t 2 q- inches. 
Habitat. —Sikkim. 
