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cell; an outwardly curved irregular band of short, double, linear marks, which curves 
in on to the abdominal margin above the anal angle ; a black anal spot, a larger black 
spot in the first median interspace, some blue scales in the interspace between them, 
all capped with a continuous band of orange and outwardly lined with white, some 
indistinct sub-marginal double markings above them. Antennse black, ringed with 
white; club with an orange tip ; frons white, collar finely white ; head and body above 
and below concolorous with the wings. 
Female. Upperside brown, with a rufous tint. Forewing with the colour shading 
darker towards the outer margin. Hindwing with the lower half bluish-white, anal 
spot black, a small black spot in each of the next three interspaces, terminal line black. 
Underside as in the male. 
Expanse of wings, $ £ to 1 inch. 
Habitat.— Mergui, Burma, Malay Peninsula. 
Distribution. —The types came from the Myitta, Tenasserim and Mergui; Elwes 
records it from Eastern Pegu, Distant from the Malay Peninsula ; our descriptions and 
figures are from Burmese examples in the B. M. 
SINTHUSA VIRGO. 
Plate 708, figs. 4, $, 4a, 5,4b, £, 4c, ? . 
Uypolyceena virgo, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 446. 
Hmolycsena (l Sinthusa ) virgo , Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 396, pi. 8, fig. 7, $ . 
SintJmsa virgo , de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 488, frontispiece, fig. 134, £ (1890). Elwes, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 645. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside, both wings shining light blue. Cilia white, but 
becoming dusky towards the apex of the forewing, tipped with black on the anal lobe. 
Foreioing with the costa as far as the costal nervure, the outer margin broadly, the 
apex still more broadly, black. Hindwing with the costa very broadly black, the 
abdominal margin whitish, an anteciliary fine black line, the veins outwardly more or 
less broadly bordered w r ith black; tail black, tipped with white. Underside, both 
wings bluish-white, an indistinct sub-marginal dusky band, a discal macular broken 
oclireous band outwardly defined finely with black, a short similar band on the 
discocellular nervules. Forewing with the discal band composed of three distinct 
portions, the upper composed of three spots, the middle of two, which are shifted a 
little inwards, the lower portion of one spot also shifted inwards, placed in the 
sub-median interspace. Hind wing with the discal band composed of three pairs of 
spots from the costa, then three or four single spots recurved to the abdominal margin ; 
the inner portion of the sub-marginal band bearing a bright yellow line from the 
second median nervule to the abdominal margin, the anal lobe black, a small round 
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