96 LYCANID., CYANIRIS, 
DESCRIPTION: “MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings greyish-blue, with a pinkish gloss, 
veins exteriorly, and marginal line black, a narrow black disco-cellular streak very prominent 
on the forewing, a broad band of dark bluish-purple along anterior and exterior margins 
of forewing and anterior margin of hindwing. C7/ia white, alternating with black on the 
forewing. UNDERSIDE, doth wings bluish-white. Forewing with a prominent black disco- 
cellular streak, and a curved discal series of five spots, the upper spots small and disposed obli- 
quely before the apex, the three lower spots large. Hindwing slightly powdered with blue 
at the base, a discal series of black dots, a dot within the cell, and a more prominent spot 
near base of anterior margin, asmall black Iunule on anal margin. FEMALE, UPPERSIDE, 
JSorewing with the disc pale bluish-white. Adzving with indistinct dusky spots on the margin.” 
Otherwise as in the male, but the spots of the underside more prominent. Both wings are 
much broader, and the outer margin of the forewing is much more convex than in the male, 
(Moore, 1. c.) 
C. vardhana is one of the largest, most beautiful, and easiest recognised species of the 
genus. It has nonear ally, and it can be compared to no species known to me. The paucity 
of markings on the underside of the forewing and their great prominence is a very remark- 
able feature. It seems to be common nowhere. I have taken it sparingly at Mashobra 
near Simla. Dr. E. R. Johnson has taken it on Jakko in Simla itself ; it was originally de- 
scribed from Jako, valley of the Rupin river, in Busahir; Major Yerbury has taken it at 
Murree in August and September, at Thundiani on 6th September, at Kali Pani on 11th 
October ; Mr. W. Doherty records it from Jagheswar, 7,500 feet, Kumaon, rare; and Colonel 
Lang states that it occurs at Naini Tal from 5,500 to 8,500 feet (Cheena) in May and June 
and again in September. Murree may be taken as its westernmost and Naini Tal its easternmost 
range as far as is at present known. 
676. Cyaniris marginata, de N. 
C. mareinata, de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lii, pt. 2, p.70, m7, pli, fig. 9, male (1883); id., 
Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 523, pl. xlviii, fig. 6, sale; id., Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, 
pt. 2, p. 134, n. 186 (1886). 
HapsitTat: Naini Tal; Dhankuri, Khati, 7,000 to 10,000 feet, Kumaon ; Nepal; Sikkim ; 
Upper Burma, 
EXPANSE: ¢@, 1°37 to 1°45 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: * MALE. UPPERSIDE, Joth wings highly iridescent deep lavender-blue. 
Forewing with the costal margin, including the upper half of the cell, and the outer mar- 
gin, widely, especially at the apex, black; a patch of pure white scales on the disc outside 
the cell between the lower discoidal and first median nervules; a black disco-cellular 
streak. Hindwing with the costal and outer margins broadly black, including a submarginal 
lunular seriesof bluish marks, obsolete in some specimens except at the anal angle; a 
patch of pure white scales above the discoidal nervule. UNDERSIDE, doth wings white, 
slightly tinted with blue. Forewing with a disco-cellular blackish streak, a discal series of six 
large very irregularly shaped and placed spots, a submarginal lunular line and marginal 
linear spots blackish; a black anteciliary line. Aindwing with three subbasal spots, a disco- 
cellular streak, and an irregular discal series of eight to ten spots ; marginal markings as in 
the forewing. Ci/ia white on both wings on both sides.” (de Nicéville, 1. c.) “ FEMALE, 
UppPerSIDE, J0th wings chiefly black. Forewing with the white area larger and clearer than 
in the male, extending from the first median to the lower discoidal nervule, and into the 
end of the cell, whereitis indented from above; extreme base from cell to hind margin 
dull greenish-blue. AHindwing with a subapical white patch over three interspaces, a black 
spot between the third median and discoidal nervules, sometimes a streak across the end of 
the cell, a line of obscure whitish submarginal lunules; part of the disc between the white area 
and the abdominal margin dull bluish. UNDERSIDE, doth wings like the male.” (Doherty, 1. c.) 
The form of this species, which I have above described and figured, is the very dark 
one which occurs in Sikkim in the middle of the rains; the one which occurs in the dry- 
