LYCAENINAK: URANOTKS MKLIXUS. 851 



lateil at base, tiarrowlv above, ln-oatUy beiicatli, with nliite; Ijeeoiiiiiii; coiilliieiit at the 

 base of the club beneath, ami foriiiiiig a short, broad white patch ; terminal four or live 

 joints of tlie club oranjre, sometimes obscured l).v fuscous — at least in dried specimens. 

 Palpi snow white, the basal joint very narrowly tipped outside witli a transverse streak 

 of blackisli brown, winch reaches the lower corner of tlic eye; upper surface of the 

 terminal joint to the very tip, and .sometimes also tlie tip of the penultiniate joint 

 dark l)rownisli fuscous. Tongue luteo-f uscous at t)ase, beyond fuscous. 



Tliorax l)Uickisli brown, covered abundantly witli very delicate, not very long, erect 

 or suberect, steel blue hairs, cliani;iii;r into brownish in tlie longer recumbent hairs of 

 the posterior portion, or changeable throughout, the blue most conspicuous in front, 

 the brown behind; patagia edged with same, paler; beneath the thorax is covered 

 with dull white hairs, with a very pale bluish rellection. Femora nacreous, the infe- 

 rior tuft of white hairs with a few intermingled dusky ones ; tibiae and llrst joint of 

 tarsi browinsh fuscous, annulatcd at tip with white, beneath dull luteous ; spines 

 black; claws and spurs dark yellowish brown, tlie former dark reddisli on apical half. 



Wings aliove bluisli black, by rellected light with a very dark mulberry lustre, the 

 veins, especially of the liind wings, often blacker. On the middle of the fore wings a 

 very large, faint, (luadrate, cloudy spot of sliglitly darker scales (not confined to 

 either sex, but apparently more distinct in the female), its corners rounded, extending 

 from just below the costal border to, and just over, the lower median nervule; it is 

 nearly twice as long as broad, and is directed from the middle of the costal border 

 toward the lower outer angle, and therefore not quite at right angles to the former ; 

 outer border of all the wings narrowly lined with blackish. On the hind Kings this is 

 surmounted in the median interspaces and below by a line of bluish scales, and, after a 

 narrow interval (tilled with a blackish spot in the medio-submedian interspace) by a 

 seconil line; in the lower median interspace, however, there is a large, high, conspic- 

 uous, orange lumile, and in the medio-submedian interspace the upper l)luc line is often 

 surmounted by a small, blackish spot, occasionally supplanted by orange; the extreme 

 anal angle has an inconspicuous orange spot enclosed between the black border line 

 and an upper and outer edging of bluish scales, and nearly concealed by the soft 

 brown hairs of the lower half of the wing; fringe blackish fuscous at base, whitish, 

 sometimes obscured with fuscous, at tip, below the tail of the hind wings, blackish 

 also at tip, with a median whitish line. 



Beneath uniform, soft, pearly, rather dark, cl.ay brown, occasionally with a decided 

 bluish tinge, the outer border distinctly lined with lilack ; costal edge at base fulvous. 

 Fore wings with a transverse stripe of nearly continuous black or blackish brown 

 streaks, bordered externally with white, and sometimes with a slight gleam of orange 

 on the inner side, running from the costal border, at a point a little beyond the middle 

 of the outer half to the lower median nervule, at about two-thirds the distance from 

 its base; the general direction is a slight curve, neither parallel to the outer border 

 nor at right angles to the costal margin, but about midway between the two; at an 

 Interspace's distance from the outer border is a series of more or less distinct, 111- 

 deflned, fuscous or blackish, transverse streaks, ofteu ol)solete over a portion of the 

 wing. In the middle of the outer two-thirds of the hind wings is an irregular, but 

 nearly straight, transverse series of spots like those of the extra-mesial series on the 

 fore wings, but usually bordered distinctly within with reddish orange; in the upper 

 part of the wing, as far as the lower median nervule, its general direction is straight, 

 subparallel to the outer border, broken invariably at the upper median nervule by hav- 

 ing its lower portion bent inward ; in the medio-snbmedian interspace the stripe forms 

 a slight /\, the limbs bent at right angles, the lower one, if cither, the longer, and fol- 

 lowed, in the lowest interspace, by a long, curved, and, at the lower end, sinuous 

 streak, tenninating on the inner angle a little more than half waj* from the base to the 

 tip; these latter markings form a rather obscure W. Beyond this liand, parallel to 

 the outer border and distant from it by the width of an interspace, is a series of ill- 

 defined, blackish fuscous, transverse streaks as far as the middle median nervule, 

 Qsaally increasing in size downward, and occasionally merging into or enclosing 



