98 LYCENIDA. LYCANA. 
lavender-blue, the .cilia much narrower, grey not pure white ; the female is dull smoky black, 
the blue coloration confined to the bases of the wings. It occurs in Ladak and Baltistan. 
The third species, Z. chamanica, Moore, is also small, and may perhaps be known from 
L. bracteata and L. samudra by having two anal spots only on the underside of the hind- 
wing sprinkled with metallic-green scales; in Z. bracteata and L. samudra there is a com- 
plete marginal series. The fourth species, Z. doewi?, Zeller, is as a rule considerably larger 
than the preceding, the coloration of the male on the upperside is smalt-blue, ‘all the 
markings of the underside particularly prominent. It occurs in Biluchistan as well asin 
Asia Minor, 
659. Lycena bracteata, Butler. 
LZ. bracteata, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 407, n. 12, pl. xxxix, fig. 4, male. 
HABITAT: Kandahar. 
EXPANSE: ¢, 1°13 2, 1I°t inches. 
DESCRIPTION : “MALE. Allied to Z. argus, Linnzeus, with which it agrees on the 
upperside. UNDERSIDE, doth wéngs considerably paler, with all the black spots much smaller 
and distinctly white-bordered, the orange spots wholly absent from the forewing, and the orange 
borders of the 27zdwing only represented by small ochreous Junules above the metallic spots, 
the latter silvery green with black centres instead of margins, extremely small towards the apex, 
but increasing in size towards the anal angle. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, Joth wings of a more 
pinky lilac colour than the male. Forewing with a considerably broader, but brown instead 
of- black, border; a well-defined black disco-cellular stigma. Aizdwing with brown costal 
border ; outer margin black, preceded by five or six rounded blackish spots. UNDERSIDE, doth 
wings altogether paler than in the male ; but the example is evidently not a fresh one, so that 
this character may be due to fading.” 
“ The female is utterly unlike that sex of Z. argus on both surfaces, being in coloration 
almost likea male insect.” (Budler, 1. c.) 
“ Found in May, and common in June.” (Rolerts.) 
I have not seena specimen of this species ; it may perhaps be known by having a 
complete marginal series of metallic green spots on the underside of the hindwing. 
Iappend a description of Z. argus, Linneus, with which Mr, Butler compares Z. 
bracteata* 
660. Lycena samudra, Moore. 
Polyommatus samudra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 574, pl. Ixvil, fig. 2, male. 
HApBiraT: Gol and Skardo, Baltistan. 
EXxPANSE: ¢, I'12 to 1°35; 2, 1°25 to 1°40 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “* MALE. UppPERSIDE, Joth wings pale lavender-blue, exterior margins 
and end of veins slightly fuliginous. Héindwing with the anterior border slightly fuligi- 
nous, costal edge white, abdominal margin greyish-white, UNDERSIDE, both wings grey- 
ish-white, slightly greenish at the base of the hindwing. Forewing with a discal transverse 
recurved row of black spots, each with a white border ;a narrow white-bordered black 
streak at end of the cell, and a submarginal series of blackish lunules. Aindwing with a 
series of eight small white-bordered black spots, two being near anterior margin towards 
the base, five on the disc, and one on abdominal margin; a pale-bordered short black streak 
* Lycena areus, Linnens. Papilio argus, Linneus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, vol. i, pt. 2, p. 483, n. 152 (1758). 
oo oa Greater part of Buren, Asia “Minor, and Armenia. ExPpaNsE: Male and female, 10 to 1't 
inches. DESCRIPTION: “MALE. UPPERSIDE, Goth wings dark blue, nearly the same colour as ZL. @gon, 
Wiener Verzeichniss, which it altogether greatly resembles; the hind-marginal border, however, is 
narrower and more defined, the hind-marginal spots of the hindwing are more distinct, and the 
white marginal cia are very narrow—not broad, as in L. @gon. _ UNDERSIDE, toth wings, ground-colour 
uniform brownish-grey ; the medial row of spots on the /orewzng 1s more even, the last spot but one from 
the inner margin being more in a line with the rest, and not, as it were, thrust inwards, as ind. @gon ; 
the silvery spots of the Aindwing on the hind margin are much more distinct than in Z. egon. e anceee 
tibiz are not provided with spines. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings almost entirely resemble those ° 
the female of Z. @gon, but the orange hind-marginal spots are ather more distinct. besa st both 
wings, as in the male.” (Zang, Butt. of Europe, p. 105, n. 8, p. xxii, figs, 2, wale and /emale (1884). 
