Dark Wanderer

Description:

Resembles Pareronia valeria, in colour and in the disposition of the markings, but differs as follows:— Male upperside : groundcolour a deeper blue. Fore wing: the terminal black border much broader generally, entirely without the transverse sub-terminal series of bluish-white spots; in a few specimens there are one or two of these spots present, but nothing like the series so conspicuous in hippia. Hind wing: the terminal black border very broad, narrowing slightly but distinctly towards the tornal angle. Proportionately this border is even broader than in the fore wing. Underside : as in valeria Female: Closely resembles the female of P. valeria, but on the upperside the outer black margins beyond'" the discal markings on both fore and hind wings are proportionately much broader, the transverse subterminal series of spots that crosses the wing is further from the terminal edge. On the underside the terminal black borders are broader and darker, the subterminal series of spots on apex of the fore and on the hind wing absent or so very thickly overlaid with the dusky brownish-black of the terminal margin as to be very indistinct and blurred. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen in both sexes much as in P. valeria hippia.[1] Southern India: Western Ghats; South Andaman Islands. Sri Lanka