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663. Lycana lehana, Moore. 
Polyommatus lehanus, Moore, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. i, p. 230 (1878); idem, id. 
Scient. Res. Second Yarkand Mission, Lep., p. 6, n. 20, pl. i, fig. 6, #ea/e (1879). 
HasiTAT: Leh (11,538 feet), Ladak. 
EXPANSE: ‘9 to 1’o inch, 
DEscRIPTION “ Allied to P.[=Z.] Pheretes, Hiibner [found in Norway, Sweden, Lap- 
land, the Swiss Alps, Pyrenees, and South Siberia]. MALE. UPppeERsSIDE, doth wings violet- 
blue, somewhat brownish-blue at the margins. Cilia white. UNDERSIDE, both wines leaden 
grey, palest at the apex and on the hindwing. AForewi2g with a white-bordered black spot 
at end of the cell, and a transverse discal oblique series of five spots. Aindwing with a large 
triangular greyish-white spot at end of the cell, and a series of eight small round spots re- 
curving from near base of costa across the disc to anal angle.” (AZoore, 1, c. in Ann. and Mag. 
of Nat. Hist.) 
The type of this species, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, was taken by the late Dr, 
F, Stoliczka at Leh on 8th September, 1873. I took another male at Zara, on the Leh Road, 
Ladak, on 13th July, 1879. Theseare the only two specimens known, They differ chiefly 
from Z. pheretes in their much smaller size, 1:00 inch as against 1°25 inches, The shade 
of blue on the upperside and the black marginal line being blurred are slight points of 
difference between the type specimen and Z. pheretes, but the specimen I took is of precisely 
the same shade of blue, and the marginal black line is not blurred, though not quite as 
sharply defined as in Z. pheretes. The markings of the underside are very similar. It is 
doubtful if Z. /ekana will ultimately survive as a species distinct from Z. pheretes. 
664. Lycena pheretes, Hiibner, var. asiatica, Elwes. 
L. pheretes, Hiibner, var. asiatica, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 402; idem, id., Trans, Ent. Soc. 
Lond., 1888, p. 382, n. 225. 
HABITAT: Native Sikkim. 
EXPANSE: @, I'I inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “MALE and FEMALE. Differs from Z. pheretes, Hiibner, in the narrower 
and more pointed forewing, and in having much more green gloss on the UNDERSIDE.” 
**T was at first disposed to consider this a new species, but noticing that Dr. Staudinger, 
in his list of the Lepidoptera of Tarbagatai in Central Asia (Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1881, p. 263), 
mentions that Z. pheretes, Hiibner, has the same difference of colour there, I do not think the 
small number of specimens I have received (four females and two males) justify me in 
separating the species at present, though the difference, if constant, is considerable. I know 
no Zycena at all like it in the Himalayas, though Z. ¢e//isi, Marshall, which occurs at high 
elevations in the N.-W. Himalayas, seems allied to, though very distinct from, it.” 
(Z/wes, 1. c. in Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond.) 
‘¢ Since writing the above description I have received no more of this form from Sikkim, but 
have three specimens agreeing with them from Ladak, and also three pairs from Mongolia 
and Turkestan, which are like the European insect. These confirm my opinion that the 
Himalayan form of pheretes is distinguishable from others by its more pointed forewing and 
a somewhat deeper shade of blue.” (Z/wes, 1. c. in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.) 
-I know nothing of this species but what is given above. It is the only species of the 
genus that has been recorded east of Kumaon within Indian limits, JZ. e//isi belongs 
to quite a different group, Mr. Elwes’ species being allied to pherefes and not to orbitulus, 
Esper, which is the type of the group to which Z. e/isi belongs. As Mr. Elwes says that his 
Sikkim specimens agree with Ladak ones, his varietal name aszatica will have to make way 
for Moore’s older name /efana, but in my opinion neither name will ultimately stand, 
The fifth group contains three species, and as far as I know is confined to India. In the 
males the upperside is more or less blue, the underside of the hindwing metallic-greenish with 
indistinct white spots, and in this respect differs from all the Indian species of the genus, The 
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