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slender, short, sinuous, transverse, dark brown strigae which are outwardly slenderly edged with brownish white of a shade paler than that of the ground colour; both wings with an anteciliary dark brown line with on the inner side a similar edging. Forewing, in addition, with an oval white spot beyond the cell. Cilia of both forewings and hindwings of the same shade as the ground colour of the wings. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen pale brown, club of antennae ochraceous at apex; beneath: the palpi and thorax brownish grey, abdomen pale brown.
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789:(Westwood) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) amyrmecophilous?"
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749:"Protective devices of the carnivorous butterfly,
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586:A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India
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443:and are predators of
453:lycaenid butterflies
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