98 LYCENIDA. CYANIRIS. 
had he had the very distinct C, melena before him. There is a very palpable error somewhere, 
but I am unable to clear it up. 
“The genus Cyanirés is better represented in the tropics than is generally supposed. I 
have myself taken ten species, including C. Aaraldus, Fabricius, in the Malay Peninsula, eight 
confined to high elevations ; also seven in the mountains of Eastern Java, and four in Celebes, 
besides C. duponchelii, Godart (? = C. puspa, Horsfield)* in Sumba and Sambawa, and C. akasa 
in Sambawa at 4,500 feet elevation.” (Doherty, 1. c.) 
C. melena appears to be nearest to, but amply distinct from, C. marginata, de Nicéville ; 
it is considerably smaller, has no white patches on the upperside of either wing, and the 
iridescent blue coloration is almost invisible in some lights, highly resplendent in others. 
The markings of the underside are smaller and more regular than in the rains form of C. 
marginata. The hindwing differs in shape from any Cyaniris known to me, the outer margin 
being decidedly truncated. In the Phayre Museum, Rangoon, is a male of this species taken 
at Myitta, in the Tenasserim valley, in March. 
678. Cyaniris alboceruleus, Moore. 
Polyommatus alboceruleus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 139; Cyaniris alboceruleus, de 
Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lii, pt. 2, p. 71, n. 8, pl. i, figs. 4, male; 4a, female (1883). 
HapitatT: Simla; Masuri ; Dehra Doon; Naini Tal ; Khati, N.-W. Kumaon, 7,000 feet 5 
Nepal ; Sikkim. 
EXPANSE: ¢@, 1I'I2 to 1'50; 2, 1'35 to 1°40 inches, 
DEscrRIPTION: “MALE, UPPERSIDR, doth wings pure pearly white. Forewing with 
the outer margin broadly at the apex and decreasingly towards the hinder angle dusky 
black, this black border being reduced to a very fine black line at the hinder angle; the 
base, broadly along the costa and inner margin and within the outer black band pale clear 
shining blue, thus leaving a patch of the white ground-colour on the disc of the wing only. 
fHlindwing with the base and abdominal half of the wing irrorated with very pale shining 
blue ; the spots of the underside showing through slightly on the disc ; an indistinct mar- 
ginal series of dusky spots, and a fine anteciliary black line. UNDERSIDE, doth wings white, 
slightly tinted with blue. Forewing with a slender blackish disco-cellular streak, a curved 
discal series of five or six elongate spots, and a marginal series of very indistinct small 
spots, obsolete at the hinder angle. Aindwing with ten or eleven small dusky spots, of which 
three are subbasal, the rest arranged irregularly across the disc ; a submarginal series of 
small spots, and a fine marginal black line. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing with the costal 
and outer borders very broadly dusky black, the discal patch white, the inner margin broadly 
irrorated with blue. Azndwing with the discal area between the nervules bluish-white, all 
the rest dusky ; a submarginal series of oval dusky spots, and the marginal black line. 
UNDERSIDE, doth wings exactly as in the male. Ci/ia white on both sides in both sexes.” 
“ Nearly allied to Cyaniris akasa, Horsfield, from which (afud Moore in ‘ Lep. Cey.’) the 
male differs on the upperside of the forewing having no dusky on the base and costal margin, 
and the outer black border being narrower throughout.” 
“ Two males-were taken by me in the bed of the Simla river on the 26th October and 
2nd November, 1879, respectively, and one female also at Simla, but the exact locality and 
date were not recorded, All three specimens are quite perfect ; the males agree absolutely 
except in size. I also took one male in Sikkim in October at about 3,500 feet elevation.” 
‘*Mr. Moore seems to have described the female of some other species as the female 
of C. alboceruleus, as he states that in that sex the broad outer marginal black band on 
the upperside of the forewing does not reach the posterior angle, whereas in my female 
the band is very wide at that point. As the undersides of both sexes of the specimens 
* Dr. Horsfield says that C. duponchelliz, Godart, from Timor, differs from C peas 
deep azure tint diffused over its upper surface, and by the number and paras ofthe seats 
underneath,"’ (Cat. Lep. E. I. Co., p 68 (1828). Professor Westwood (Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 491, n. 60 
(1852) records Lycena duponchellit from Timor, Papua, Bengal, Java, A i 
distinct, recording it from East India, Ceylon, Java. (ees;in: s6p 1 Java, Amboyna, and he retains L. puspa as 
