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at end anda dot within the cell ; a submarginal series of narrow black lunules with inner 
white borders, and a marginal row of small metallic silvery spots which are slightly bordered 
within with red, FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings differ from the male in being anteriorly 
and the veins broadly fuliginous. UNDERSIDE, hindwing differs from the male in the partial 
absence of the discal series of spots. Cz/ia white, slightly brown at the ends of the veins. 
Antenne black, ringed with white.” (JZoore, 1. c.) 
The only Indian species with which Z. samudra can be confounded is Z. dracteata, 
Butler, a species which I have not seen unfortunately. I have pointed out in the notes 
on this group (p. 77) how, as far as I know, these two species differ ; they occur in quite 
different localities and are probably quite distinct, though in this genus particularly it is often 
very difficult in words to define the minute but quite perceptible differences that exist in color- 
ation and markings. JZ. samudra is very close to, if indeed really separable from, Z. chvis- 
zophi, Staudinger, from Turkestan and Persia.* Mr. H. J. Elwes has sent me a single female 
specimen of this species, which differs from females of Z. samudra in being smaller, the 
upperside is blue not fuliginous, the blue colour in Z. samudra is almost confined to the base of 
the wings, in Z. christophi it occupies nearly the entire surface; the underside of the latter 
species is rather paler. Both species were described in the same year. Z. samudraisa 
common species in Ladak and Baltistan wherever a certain small grey-leaved prickly bush 
occurs, on which its larva probably feeds, 
661. Lycena chamanica, Moore. 
L. chamanica, Moore, Journ, A.S. B., vol. lili, pt. 2, p. 23 (1884); id., Swinhoe, Trans. Ent, Soc, Lond., 
1885, p. 340, N. 17. 
Hapitar: Chaman, S, Biluchistan, April. 
EXPANSE: @, I‘O inch. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘* MALE [mec female]. UpperstDg, doth wings lavender-blue. Forewing 
with the extreme outer margin pale dusky-brown. Azndwing with pale dusky-brown costal 
and marginal border, the latter traversed by an outer row of whitish lunules. UN- 
DERSIDE, oth wings lilacine ochreous-grey. Forewing with a large white-bordered black 
lunule at end of the cell, a discal transverse row of six spots, and a marginal row of white- 
bordered dark brown spots, the transverse interspace between the discal and marginal spots 
also dark brown. Aéndwing with three straightly-disposed transverse subbasal white-bordered 
black spots, a lunule at end of the cell, and a curved discal interrupted row of eight spots; a 
marginal row of rounded dark brown spots, bordered by an inner dark brown lunular line ; the 
anal and penultimate spot is black, specked with metallic-biue scales, and surmounted by 
orange-yellow. Cz/ia dusky-brown, edged with white.” 
** This species is quite distinct from Z. bracteata, Butler.” (Moore, 1. c.) Unfortunately I 
have not seen the latter species, so am unable to compare one with the other, but they are evi- 
dently very closely allied. See remarks on the next species. 
The type and only known specimen of this species is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. It 
was taken at Chaman, which, though occupied by us, politically, as part of Biluchistan, is really, 
geographically, in South Afghanistan ; being at the western (Afghan) foot of the slopes of the 
Khojak Amran range, which separates Peshin from the Kandahar provinces. Colonel 
Swinhoe (I. c.) records this species from ‘‘ Kandahar, November ; Quetta, August and Septem- 
ber.” I have seen these specimens ; they certainly are not Z. chamanica, but appear to me to 
be Z. Zersica, Butler. 
662. Lycna loewii, Zeller. (PLarz XXVI, Fic. 167%), 
L, loewit, Zeller, Isis, 1847, p. 9, n. 35; id., Herrich-Schaffer, Schmett. Eur., vol. i, figs. 434-437 (1849); 
id., Lang, Butt. of Eur., p. 141 (1884); Z. empyrea, Freyer, Neuere Beitr., vol. vi, pl. dlxxiii, fig. r (1852); 
id,, Gerhard, Mon, Zyc., pl. xvii, figs. 2, a—c (1853). 
HapitaT: Asia Minor; Biluchistan. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1'2to 1°43 $, 1°25 to 1°35 inches. 
* Lycena christophi, Staudinger, Stettin Ent. Zeit., vol, xxxv, p. 87 (1874). 
