too LYCAINIDA. CYANIRKIS. 
rains form, and the disco-cellular nervules are marked with a black line. The hindwing has the 
base powdered with dusky and blue scales, there is a submarginal dusky lunular fascia, enclosing 
a series of prominent black spots, and an anteciliary black fine line. Underside of both wings 
with the spots small or obsolete. The female of this species is easily recognised from all 
others by having no blue iridescent scales towards the base of the wings on the upperside. 
It occurs commonly in Sikkim in March, April, May, September, October, and November. 
Its range is from Sikkim eastwards through Assam to Burma. I append as a footnote Mr. 
Moore's original description of this species.* 
Figure 170 shews both sides of a male specimen of the wet-season form ; fig. 171 shows 
both sides of a male specimen of the dry-season form, both from Sikkim and now in my 
collection. 
680. Cyaniris latimargo, Moore. 
C. latimargo, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1883, p. 523, pl. xlviii, fig. 9, wale. 
HAsivaT : Sikkim, N.-E. Bengal. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1°25 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : “ Allied to C. transfecitus, Moore. MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings of a 
darker blue, with a purplish tint, with a broad black outer marginal band of one-eighth inch 
in width ; the costal borders also b!ack-bordered. Hindwing with the abdominal margin black- 
bordered. UNDERSIDE, é0¢4 wings with similarly disposed but broader markings than those 
in C. marginata.” (Moore, |. c.) é, 
Mr. Moore iaforms me in a letter that he has this species from Sikkim. I have not been 
able to recognise it with certainty, but I am almost sure that itis the rains form of C. ¢rans- 
peclus. Mr. Moore says that the costal border of the forewing is black-bordered. If it is 
so, it must be but narrowly black ; it is prominently black in four species only, at least as 
far as I know, C. akasa, C. vardhana, C. marginata, and C. melena. 
681. Cyaniris puspa, Horsfield. 
Polyommatus puspa, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co., p. 67, n. 3 (1828); Cyaniris pusfa, Moore, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 245 ; id., de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lii, pt. 2, pl. i, fig. sa, female (1883) ; id., 
Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xvi, p. 335, n. 70 (1885); Lycena pusfa, var. Felder, 
Verh. zool.-bot. Gesells. Wien, vol. xviii, p. 282 (1868) ; Polyommatus lavendularis, Moore, Ann. and 
Mag of Nat. Hist., fourth series, vol. xx, p. 341 (1877) ; Cyaniris lavendularis; id., Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 75, 
pl. xxxiv, figs. 6, 6a, male; 7, female (1881) 3 C. puspa, var. dilacea, Hampson, Journ. A. S, B., vol. lvii, pt. 
2,p 356, n. ox (1888), 
I[ApiraT : Almost throughout India, (except the desert tracts), the outer Himalayas 
Assam, Burma, Ceylon, the Andaman Isles, and Java. 
EXpaNsE: ¢, I°I toI'53 2, 1°2 to 1°4 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : ** MALE. UPPeRSIDE, doth wings blue with a defined border of blackish- 
brown, and a large white patch on the disc ; a deeper tint extends from the base to the edge 
of the brown margin, varying according to the direction of the light, being either intensely 
azure or diluted, and transmitting a ground-colour of brown. UNDERSIDE, doth wings white 
with a bluish cast, with, along the posterior margins, two parallel brown strigz, of which 
the interior is undulated, enclosing an interrupted series of oblong brown spots, gradually 
assuming a deeper tint as they approach the anal angle; interior of this follows a macular 
band, originating by two successive ocellate dots, from the margin of the forewing and extend- 
ing in an irregular curve through both pair. Forewing bears on the disc a short curved streak. 
Hindwing with a similar angular mark, but more obscure ; with, in its basal portion, numer- 
ous black ocellate spots bordered with white, of which five are more prominent ; two of these 
stand near the exterior margin, the apical one being larger and of a more florid tint ; 
two, less conspicuous, are disposed near the anal interior margin, and a fifth intermediate 
* Mace. Uppersipr, doth wings blue, with a broad outer marginal black band, broadest at the apex 
of the forewing; the band on the Aindwing maculated. UNDERSIDE, 40¢h wings white, with indistinct slender 
dusky markings disposed as in P. [= C.] fusfa; the costal spot only prominent and visible above.” (.Woore 
l,c.) This description appears to apply best to the dry-season form of this species, 
