Dark Blue tiger

Description:

Closely resembles Tirumala limniace, Cramer, but is always sufficiently distinct to be easily recognized, even on the wing. From T. limniace it differs on the upperside in the ground-colour being darker and the semihyaline markings narrower, more distinct, and of a bluer tint, In the fore wing, in interspace 1 the two streaks are narrower, never coalescent, the upper one forming an oval detached spot; the short streaks above vein 5 are outwardly never truncate, always acute.

Habitat:

The Himalayas from Simla to Sikhim, into Assam, Myanmar and Southeast Asia; Orissa ;W.B, Southern India., the Western Ghats and Nilgiris; Sri Lanka.