92 LYCAENIDZE. CYANIRIS. 
former from near Attock on the Khairabad side, taken by Major J. W. Yerbury in November, 
and the latter from Karachi in June, and the Hubb River, Biluchistan, in September, 
also from Quetta. The only difference between typical C. ‘rochilus and C. putli is that the 
former has the orange markings above the marginal black spots on the upperside of the 
hindwing very prominent ; while in the latter this colour is absent altogether or replaced 
by ochreous, The most typical specimens of true C. érochilus which I possess are from 
Aden, but I have a very fine series of the speciestaken by Mr. W. H. Irvine at Bholahat, 
Malda, some of which have almost as much orange as the Aden specimens, while others almost 
entirely lack that coloration, and all intergrade specimens exist. In India C. ¢vochilus occurs 
practically almost everywhere, from Karachi in the west, all along the outer Himalayas to 
Upper Burma in the east, and throughout continental and peninsular India and Ceylon. It 
has not as yet been recorded from the Andaman or Nicobar Isles, or from the Malay Peninsula, 
but it is almost sure to be found in the latter region hereafter, as it occurs in Java, Sumba, and 
Sambawa. In Ceylon Wade records it from ‘‘ Kandy and Trincomalee, found in grass. Rare.” 
The jewelled spots of the hindwing on the underside are quite sau generis, and make this 
species one of the most easily identifiable of the “ Blues.” 
Genus 110.—CYANIRIS, Dalman,. (FRONTISPIECE and PLATE XXVI). 
Cyaniris, Dalman, Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Handl., vol. XxXxVvil, pp. 63, 94 (1816) ; id., Billberg, Enum. Ins., p. 80 
(1820) ; id., de Villiers and Guénée, Lép. d’Eur., p. 19 (1835); id., Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 74 (1881) ; id., 
de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lii, pt. 2, p. 67 (1883) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 210 (1884) ; Lycenopsis, 
Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol, ii, p. 257 (1865). 
‘‘ FOREWING, elongated, triangular ; exterior margin slightly oblique and convex, fosterior 
margin long ; costal mervure extending to half length of the margin ; first subcostal nervule 
emitted at nearly one-half before the end of the cell, free from the costal nervure ; second 
subcostal at one-third, ¢2ird subcostal at about one-eighth before the end of the cell, fourth 
at one-half from the third and terminating at the apex ; //¢h [upper discoidal] from the end 
of the cell ; disco-cellular nervules slightly concave ; lower discoidal nervule from their middle; 
discoidal cell long, somewhat narrow, extending to more than half the wing ; second median 
nervule emitted about one-seventh before the end of the cell, f7s¢ median at nearly one-half 
before the end ; sudbmedian nervure slightly recurved. HINDWING, oval ; agex very acute ; 
costal nervure curved at the base, extending to the apex ; first subcostal nervule emitted at one- 
fourth before the end of the cell ; «fer disco-ce/lular nervule the shorter, outwardly oblique, 
Jower disco-cellular straight, erect, discoidal nervule from their middle ; déscotdal cell rather 
short ; second median nervule emitted from immediately before the end of the cell ; firs¢ median 
at one-third before the end ; swdmedian and internal nervures straight. Bopy slender, short ; 
palpi porrect, second joint pilose beneath, projecting half beyond the head ; third joint slender 
and about half its length, naked ; /egs slender, femora slightly pilose beneath ; antenne with 
a lengthened spatular club. Type, C. argiolus,’ Linnzus, the “ Holly-Blue” of England. 
(Moore, 1. ¢.) 
In the forewing the costal nervure ends exactly opposite the apex of the discoidal cell ; 
the first subcostal nervule in the type species is free from the costal nervure, in a male of C. 
transpectus, Moore, it lies along and touches the costal nervure for some little distance, while in 
a female of the same species it lies close to but is free from that nervure ; second subcostal with 
its base half as far from the base of the first subcostal as from the base of the upper discoidal ; 
third subcostal rather short, emitted from the subcostal nervure about midway between the 
apex of the wing and the base of the upper discoidal. The eyes are hairy. 
The genus Cyaniris is very near to Lycena, Fabricius ; as far as neuration goes, it is pro- 
bable that, if all the species of both genera were examined, no constant character between them 
would be found. In the specimens of each that I have examined I find that the first subcostal 
nervule of the forewing is quite free in Zycena, in Cyanirisit either touches the costal nervure 
fora short distance or approaches it very closely ; in Cyaniris the base of the second sub- 
costal nervule is nearer to the base of the first than it is to the base of the upper discoidal 
nervule, in Lyc@na it is just equi-distant between them ; lastly, in Cyaniris the third subcostal 
