Se LYCENID. 5 LYCAINA. 
DESCRIPTION: MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings brilliant shining light ‘‘ adonis” blue, 
much the same as in Z. dilucha, Moore, buta little darker. Forewing with the costa very 
narrowly black, the outer margin broadly black, that colour ascending the veins on to the disc. 
Hindwing with the costal margin broadly fuscous, a distinct anteciliary black line of the same 
width as the cilia, inwardly defined bya whitish line between the veins, with black spots between 
the veins placed against the white line, the outer portions of the veins black. UNDERSIDE, 
both wings grey. Forewing with a prominent disco-cellular and discal series of six spots, 
the lower spot often geminated, all deep black, surrounded with a whitish ring; an 
anteciliary regular black line, then a series of oval black spots surrounded with whitish, 
beyond this a somewhat broad dark increasing fascia defined on both sides with whitish. 
Hindwing with a small spot on the abdominal margin near the base of the wing, four 
subbasal spots arranged across the wing nearly in a straight line, an elongated prominent 
disco-cellular spot, and an irregular discal series of seven spots, all large, black, prominent, 
and surrounded by a whitish line; a prominent anteciliary even narrow black line; a sub- 
marginal series of round black spots between the veins, the large one in the first median inter- 
space, the two conjoined ones in the submedian interspace, and a minute one in the internal 
interspace on the abdominal margin sprinkled with metallic blue scales, and crowned broadly 
with orange ; between the submarginal and discal series of spots is a lunulated black line. Czlia 
on both wings on both sides long and pure white. FEMALE, UPPERSIDE, d0¢h wings fuscous. 
Forewing with a submarginal and discal series of whitish spots placed in very regular order 
between the veins parallel with the outer margin. ///xdwing with a discal series of whitish 
lunulated spots and a series of round black spots between the veins near the margin surrounded 
by a whitish ring, the two divided by the second median nervule the largest, and inwardly 
broadly crowned with oranges UNDERSIDE, doth wings as in the male, but the ground-colour 
is darker, and all the markings are more prominent. 
The above description is taken from the most prominently marked specimens out of a long 
series of this species taken by Lieut. E. Y. Watson at Quetta and Gundak, Biluchistan, the 
latter place being in the Sarakola Pass, about ten miles to the south-east of Quetta. 
Colonel Swinhoe also possesses a pair taken at Gundak. All were taken in June. This species 
was aslo taken by the late Lieut. Harvey, R.E., in June, 1888, on the summit of the Khojak. 
Other specimens have the blue coloration of the upperside more purple in shade and less “adonis-” 
like, the cilia dusky, and all the markings smaller and less prominent below. There is every 
gradation between these extremes. Dr. O. Staudinger has separated off a variety of Z. loweit 
in his Catalogue of Palearctic Lepidoptera, and referred to it in his Monograph of Asia 
Minor Lepidoptera (Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., vol. xiv, p. 234, 1878), calling it gigas; this variety 
may also occur in Biluchistan. It is briefly described in Lang’s Butt. of Eur., p. 371, from 
the Taurus. 
With reference to the preceding species, Z. chamanica, Moore, I have carefully examined 
the prehensores, and find that the type specimen is a male, not a female, as stated by Mr. 
Moore. There isa slight difference between it and Z. /oewit in the shade of blue of the upper- 
side, which is the only character which I can find to separate them, The markings of the 
underside in this species are very characterstic, they agree exactly in Z. chamanica and ZL. loewii. 
They are almost certainly one species. 
The figure shows both sides of a male specimen from Quetta in my collection, 
The fourth group contains two species only, one of which I have not seen. They may 
be known from all which precede them by having the spots on the underside of the hindwing 
white without black centres; this character obtains in the fifth group also, but that group has 
the ground-colour of the hindwing on the underside metallic green, while Z. /ehana, 
Moore, and Z. pheretes, var. asiatica, Elwes, have it grey. In the seventh group also the spots 
of the hindwing on the underside are often white, but on the upperside of the males 
the wings are fuscous withthe base sprinkled with metallic green scales, while in the species 
of this group the wings are blue. The first species, Z, /ehana, occurs in Ladak, the second 
species, L. pheretes, var. asiatica, in Native Sikkim, 
