76 LYC/-ENID. LYC-ENA. 
Hindwing with three white-circled black subbasal spots, and a curved discal series of seven 
spots ; [a triangular white spot divided in the middle by a fine dark line on the disco-cellular 
nervules] ; a marginal row of prominent spots bordered above by a dentate line with ochreous 
interspaces.” (A/oore, 1. c. in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist.) 
The type and only known specimen of this species is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Mr. Moore does not state its sex ; it appears to me to be a female. Its distinctness from 
Z. icarus to my mind is extremely doubtful, especially if it be admitted that the presence or 
absence of blue or green metallic irrorations at the base of the hindwing below, and the oblitera- 
tion or obsolescence of the discal white streak on that wing are untrustworthy and unsafe cha- 
racters for specific distinction. Except in the absence of this streak the Indian Museum speci- 
men differs in no respect from many European examples of Z. icarws. In any case the establish- 
ment of a species on a unique specimen so closely resembling older species is to be deprecated. 
656. Lycwna nadira, Moore. 
L. nadira, Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 24 (18384). 
HapsitaT : Kabul. 
EXPANSE: 9, 1°0 inch (Afvore) ; 1°15 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings dark olivaceous violet-brown. 
Hiindwing with a very faint trace of paler marginal lunules. UNDERSIDE, doth wings pale 
olivaceous-ochreous. Forewing with an olivaceous white-bordered large black linear spot at 
end of the cell, anda recurved transverse discal row of six spots, a submarginal row of small 
blackish dentate spots, and a marginal row of linear spots. Aindwing with three subbasal 
olivaceous white-bordered black spots, a lunule at end of the cell, a curved discal row of eight 
spots, a submarginal row of small blackish dentate spots, and a marginal row of short linear 
spots. Czlia brown, edged with white.” 
“ Quite distinct from Z. /tgitiva, Butler.” (ALoore, 1. c.) 
The type specimen of this species is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and is the only one 
I have seen, The black pale-encircled spots.on the underside of the forewing are arranged 
thus : the five upper ones form a perfect curve, and including the disco-cellular spot almost a 
perfect circle (with however a wide gap between this last named spot and the first (costal) 
spot of the discal series), the sixth spot which is out of the curve being nearer the margin; the 
fifth spot is the largest, In the hindwing the two lower spots of the discal series are rather 
larger than the others. It appears certainly very distinct from Z. fugitiva (and Z. persica) 
owing to the wings being shorter and broader and the apex less produced than in those species ; 
and also owing to the large size of the conspicuous black spots below. The fifth spot of the 
discal series on the forewing is especially large and elongated ; but these spots are liable to 
* sport’ in many species of Zycenide (notably in the genus Zizera, Moore), and too much 
reliance should not be placed on this peculiarity, especially in the absence of a larger series 
of this form, which may represent but an occasional sport of a commoner local form. 
657- Lycena bilucha, Moore. 
L. bilucha, Moore, Journ, A. S. B., vol. lili, pt. 2, p. 24 (1884); id., Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 188s, 
Pp. 340, n. 18. 
HapitaT: Chaman, S. Biluchistan, April and May ; Quetta, May and June. 
EXPANSE: @, 1°23; Q, I‘! inches. 
DESCRIPTION : ‘‘ MALE. UPPERSIDE, 40¢h wings brilliant, glossy, opalised, lilacine cobalt- 
blue, the exterior margin with avery slender black border. Cz/ta brown, with a broad white 
edge. UNDERSIDE, doth wings pale lilacine ochreous-grey, the base slightly metallic-green. 
(Cilia whitish, with an anteciliary dark fine line.] Forewing with a small round white- 
bordered black spot in the middle of the cell, a prominent streak at the end of the cell, a 
transverse discal row of seven spots, and a marginal double row of pale brown white-bordered 
lunules. /tadwing with a prominent white-bordered black spot in the middle of the cell, one 
above it, a less distinct spot below it, and a narrow spot on abdominal margin, a streak at end 
of the cell, and a discal curved interrupted row of eight spots; a marginal row of white- 
