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bordered narrow black spots, each surmounted by a black-lined reddish lunule,” (Aoore, 
l.c) FEMALE. UpPeErsIDE, doth wings smoky-brown, with a submarginal series of indistinct 
orange lunules, enclosing indistinct blackish spots on the hindwing. Forewing with a distinct 
black disco-cellular spot. UNDERSIDE, doth wings pale ochreous-brown, all the spots as in the 
male but larger and more prominent, and with a submarginal series of distinct orange lunules. 
I possess but a single specimen of this sex from Quetta taken the same day as numerous 
males. 
The type of this species is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. It is extremely near to 
Alpine specimens of Z. eros, Ochsenheimer ; the male differs in the forewing being rather 
broader, the outer black margin to both wings on the upperside a trifle less wide and not at all 
macular on the hindwing ; on the underside of the hindwing the discal white streak which is 
present, but not prominent, in Z. eros, is entirely absent in Z. di/ucha, and the orange marginal 
spots are more obscure. The tint of blue on the upperside is also certainly less smalt and 
more purple than in Z. eros. I possess numerous specimens taken at Quetta in May and June 
by Lieut. E. Y. Watson. 
658. Lycona pseuderos, Moore, 
Polyommatus pseuderos, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 138. 
HaBiraT: Sind Valley, Kashmir. 
EXPANSE: @, 1°13 9, 1°2 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘* MALE. Upprersipe, both wings smalt-blue, with somewhat broad 
greyish-black maculated exterior borders. Cvz/ia with a blackish inner line. UNDERSIDE, both 
wings pale ochreous-grey. Forewing with a white-circled black dot in middle of the cell, a 
streak at its end, a discal series of six spots, and a marginal row of less-distinct black spots 
bordered inwardly by a pale ochreous-red and black lunule. Aimdwing speckled with green 
and black at the base; a transverse subbasal series of four white-circled black spots, a curved 
discal series of seven similar spots, a paler streak at the end of the cell, a very prominent row 
of marginal spots bordered by an inner ochreous-red and black lunule, and an intervening 
short longitudinal discal white dash. Cz/ia white. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings brown, 
with a submarginal series of small ochreous-red lunular spots. UNDERSIDE, both wings 
darker-coloured than male ; markings the same. ” 
“ Alied to P. [=L.] evos, Ochsenheimer ; differing above in having the outer margins 
more decidedly maculated with greyish-black, and in the forewing beneath having no spots 
at the base; the discal row of spots also are disposed in a more linear series; and the 
ochreous-red borders to the marginal spots are less dentated with black on their inner border.” 
(Moore, 1. c.) 
This species is unknown to me, and I have seen nothing in India approaching it except Z. 
bilucha, Moore. Though I was all through the Sind Valley, Kashmir, in June, 1879, and again 
in 1887, I did not come across it ; it probably occurs at some other time of the year if it is to 
be found in that valley at all. 
The third group contains but four species, the males of which are blue on the upper- 
side with a narrow outer black border ; the undersides are grey, markings prominent, Aindwing 
with two or three black anal spots, sometimes a complete marginal series, trrorated with metallic 
green scales ; this feature occurs in both sexes, and is peculiar to this group, and to Z. devanica, 
Moore, of the first group, which however can be distinguished from all the species of this 
group by having the cilia of both wings in both sexes spotted with black instead of being 
white throughout, and the male having the blue coloration of the upperside confined to 
the basal two-thirds of the wings instead of nearly reaching to the outer margins. The first 
species, L. bracteata, Butler, is of small size, the coloration of the male on the upperside 
(if it be, as is said, the same as in Z. argus, Linnezeus) is dark blue, the cilia very broad 
and pure white ; the female has a considerable portion of the basal areas of both wings 
on the upperside also blue. It occurs in Afghanistan. The second species, 2. samudra, 
Moore, is rather larger than Z, bvacteata, the coloration of the male on the uppe:side is pale 
