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Female. Upperside somewhat glossy brown. Forewing somewhat paler internally. 
Hindwing with the abdominal fold pale, some black sub-marginal lunular spots capped 
with white, the spot in the first interspace larger and more conspicuous than the 
others, the white caps in some examples are large, in one example from Java the 
lower fourth of the wing is bluish-white. Underside as in the male, the ground colour 
paler and the markings more prominent. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ 1 to 1 X 2 X inches. 
Habitat.— Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam, Jav^. 
Distribution. —A widely distributed species from the Himalayas to Java, but 
never common, varying somewhat in colour and markings on the upperside, especially 
in the females; the type came from Java, we have it from Preanga, and both sexes 
from Shillong ; Elwes records it from Margharita in Upper Assam, Mackinnon and 
de Niceville from Mussuri, de Niceville from Sikkim, Kangra and Kulu ; it is in the 
B. M. also from Kanikhet and the Khasia Hills. 
SINTHUSA CHANDRANA. 
Plate 708, tigs. 2, £, 2a, ? , 2b, £ . 
Hypolycsena chandrana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 249, pi. 11, figs. 2, 2a, $. de Niceville, 
Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p 78, pi. 9, fig. 1, $ . 
CMiaria chandrana, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 33. 
Sinthusa chandrana , de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 486 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, 
p. 645. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 395 (1893). Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. 
Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 389. 
Hypolycsena grotei, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 527, pi. 49, fig. 5, $ . 
Sinthusa grotei, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 34. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 
p. 307. 
Thecla pratti, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 110, pi. 7, fig. 4, ; id. Entom. xxiii. p. 44 (1890) ; 
id. Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 354, pi. 30, fig. 10, £ (1893). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside, dark violet-brown, shading darker towards the outer 
margin. Hindwing with the costal area dark, the rest of the wing showing more 
violet colour in certain lights ; anal lobe black, with a pale blue mark on it, terminal 
line black, abdominal area pale. Underside grey, markings darker grey with prominent 
white edgings. Forewing with a broad bar at the end of the cell, a discal band of six 
broad, square, conjoined spots, the first two from the costa, slightly outwardly oblique, 
the next four in a slightly outwardly curved band decreasing in size hind wards to the 
sub-median vein, its upper ends touching the lower ends of the first two spots and of 
the discoidal bar. Iiindwing with a sub-basal black spot below the costa, and two 
spots below it, one above the other, both inside the cell, the upper one small; a thick 
bar, constricted in its middle, a discal band of similar sized spots in four pieces, the 
