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Race coelestis: Male upperside: shining bluish with a purple flush in certain lights. Forewings and hindwings: termen narrowly edged with fuscous black on which the jet-black anteciliary line on each wing is obscurely visible, the edging of fuscous black slightly widened anteriorly. Underside: dusky brown. Forewing: a transverse, subbasal, broad, dark, brownish-black, white-margined band from the subcostal to vein 1, a similar band along the discocellulars also extended to vein 1, an upper discal similar band from costa, curved a little outwards and stopping short at vein 3, followed by a postdiscal transverse series of dark spots which on the inner side are comparatively broadly, on the outer side very slenderly edged with white; succeeding which is a subterminal extremely slender series of transversely linear spots, a white line and a jet-black anteciliary line; cilia brown. …

The butterfly occurs in India from Kumaon to Assam and onto Myanmar. It is also found in the Andamans. In Southeast Asia the butterfly ranges from Myanmar to southern Yunnan and southwards to Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, northern Sulawesi, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, China, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.