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LEP ID op tee a indica. 
running very close to 7 ; discocellulars upright, slightly concave, vein 3 from a little 
before the lower end of cell, costa slightly curved, apex rounded, outer margin some¬ 
what convex, hinder margin straight. Hindwing, discocellulars very straight, of equal 
length, outwardly strongly oblique; vein 3 emitted some little distance before lower 
end of the cell; costa evenly curved, outer margin straight to the end of vein 3, where 
there is a small angle, a long narrow filiform tail at the end of vein 2, in the male 
shorter than in the female, in wdfich sex it is ciliated or fluffy, a well-developed, 
narrow anal lobe. Male without secondary sexual characters. 
Type, Myrina lapithis, Moore. 
ARAOTES LAPITHIS. 
Plate 709, figs. 3, $, 3a, 5 > 3b, £. 
Myrina lapithis, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 48 (1857). Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep. p. 36, 
pi. 15, figs. 35, 36, $, 37, 38, ? (1863). Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 549. 
Sitlion lapithis , Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 351. 
Biduanda lapithis , Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 238, pi. 20, fig. 29, 5 (1884). Moore, Journ. Linn. 
Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 42. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 260. 
Araotes lapithis, de Riceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 446, pi. 29, fig. 237, $ (1890). Elwes, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 642. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside. Forewing black, the hinder basal two-thirds of the 
wing below the median vein dark blue, brilliant in certain lights. Hindwing with the 
whole of the wing brilliant dark blue, the abdominal fold blackish ; the long anal lobe 
black; tail black, tipped with white, with a few metallic blue-green scales at its root. 
Cilia black. Underside. Forewing ochreous-red, a black, outwardly oblique band from 
the outer end of the cell to the sub-median vein and from thence suffusedly to the 
hinder margin ; another similar band, its upper end from the median vein close to the 
upper end of the other band, inwardly oblique forming a A-shape, the space inside 
them pure white ; a discal thin band or thick, somewhat irregular line, broken at 
vein 4, then recommencing a little outwardly ; terminal line black. Hindwing white, 
a broad ochreous-red marginal band from the costa, terminating abruptly a little below 
vein 4, the white space covered with large black spots and marks, a bar across the 
middle of the cell, another a little before its end with a spot above it; a discal well 
curved series of spots, composed of a spot outside the upper end of the cell, a curved bar 
a little outwards, opposite the end of the cell, two attached spots, slightly outwardly 
oblique, and three detached spots in a line on to the abdominal margin above its middle, 
a large Y-shaped mark below them in an outwardly oblique form, the upper end of its 
outside portion touching the outer of the three spots in a line ; anal lobe black with 
some pale blue scales above it, a black sub-terminal spot in the first interspace, capped 
with pale metallic blue, which is a part of a lunular band of metallic blue scales all 
