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in either sex, on the underside it is grey, with some very obscure linear white macular 
bands. It is only known at present from Kouldja on the western border of China, and from 
Biluchistan. 
646. Neolycena sinonsis, Alphéraky. (PLATE XXVI, Fic. 166). 
Lycena sinensis, Alphéraky, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., vol. xvi, p. 383, n. 39, pl. xiv, fig. 7 (1881). 
HasitaT : Kouldja (4/phéraky), Biluchistan, 
EXPANSE : I'2 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘* MALE and FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings fuscous-brown ; ci/ia in- 
terrupted with white. UNDERSIDE, d0/h wings greyish-brown, with a very slender white 
marginal line. /orewing with an interrupted exterior series composed of irregular white 
short streaks. Hindwing with the disc irregularly marked with white lunules and short 
streaks, and with a series of submarginal dots, interiorly margined with white,”’ 
‘MALE and FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, oth wings blackish-brown ; cé/ia of the same colour, 
but spotted with white at the end of the veins ; but this isonly very narrowly so on the fore- 
and more broadly on the hindwing, the cilia is similar on the underside. UNDERSIDE, 
both wings of a greyish-brown tint, very much lighter [than above]. An extremely fine 
bordering line runs along the exterior margin of both wings, sometimes very indistinct in 
the forewing. Forewing traversed at nearly three millimetres from the outer margin 
by an interrupted series of white, irregular, small streaks (lunules), with one whitish 
lunule placed above the first nervure and placed more towards the interior of the wing. This 
last [lunule] disappears entirely in some specimens. A small streak, or rather a small whitish 
dot, is found generally in the discoidal cell. Aindwing faintly dusted with white scales near 
its first half [the base of the wing]. The disc is sprinkled with more or less large lunules, con- 
cave towards the base, and generally shaded with blackish interiorly, and also with some white 
streaks not far from the base ; but the whole is so irregular and so different in each indivi- 
duai specimen that a figure alone could give a sufficiently exact idea of it. All along the 
exterior margin of both wings there is a submarginal series of small black dots, which are 
round and bordered with white on their interior side. These dots are very distinct on the 
hindwing, but on the forewing they are more or less obliterated, and sometimes they completely 
disappear.” 
“The species appears to be thoroughly isolated in the genus Zycena, and must take 
its place in the small group formed by some very heterogeneous species : Z. rhymnus, Eversmann, 
L. tengstremi, Erschoff, and Z. anthracias, Christoph.” 
“It was on 13th May that Itook some very old and worn specimens at an altitude of 
about 3,500 [feet] on one of the out-jutting spurs of the Tian-Chian.” 
“*The species was flying about a bush which looked like a Carfinus, but which was 
certainly different from that genus.” 
** Tt is very probable that my description would be more detailed and more exact if I 
had some fresher specimens. Out of the twelve specimens which I brought away with me, I 
could make use of only three for the purpose of description, and even these were not very good.” 
(Alphéraky, 1. c.) 
My knowledge of this species is confined to a single specimen taken by Lieutenant E. Y. 
Watson on 21st June, 1885, at Gunduk, which is situated inthe Sarakola Pass, to the N.-E. of 
Quetta, Biluchistan. Half of this specimen has been bleached and mounted for examination of 
the neuration. The figure shows both sides of this specimen, which is in my own collection. 
bunch of fine black hairs arranged compactly at the end of the abdomen as in the female of Thecla acacia, 
Fabricius (which occurs in South Europe and Asia Minor), and some other Lycenide. This most 
curious feature is found also in Chetofrocta odata, Hewitson, described further on in this work. I think it highly 
probable that L. tengstrvemi belongs to the genus Neolycena, although Dr. Lang in his “ Butterflies of Europe,” 
p. 147, suggests that it should ‘‘probably be referred to the genus Z@osofis, Rambur.” In this I think 
Dr. Lang is wrong. The type and only known species of L@osofis is the L. voboris, Esper, which is a very 
different looking insect to Lycena tengstre@mi, and is said to differ from the genus 7hecla, Fabricius, in 
having smooth instead of hairy eyes, and no tail to the hindwing. As figured by Dr. Lang it has three 
subcostal nervules to the forewing, while Tec/a has but two, in this respect differing also from Neolycana 
sinensis and probably from NV, tengstremi. 
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