104 LYCZNID&. CYANIRIS. 
DEsCRIPTION: “ MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings rather deep lavender-blue. Forewing 
with the costa very narrowly, and the outer margin more widely, but decreasingly, to the 
hinder angle black. Aiding with the outer margin narrowly black, the inner edge of the black 
border lunulated, sometimes reduced to black spots between the nervules, and a black ante- 
ciliary line. UNDERSIDE, both wings white, slightly tinted with blue. Forewing with a fine 
disco-cellular streak defined outwardly with whitish ; a discal series of five or six more or less 
irregularly shaped and placed spots ; a submarginal lunulated line, marginal spots and ante- 
ciliary line. Aindwing with three subbasal black spots ; a faint slender disco-cellular line 5 
a discal very sinuous series of eight spots, the upper one on the costa and the lower on the 
abdominal margin deep black and the most distinct ; marginal markings as on the forewing. 
Cilia white on both sides.” 
“ Next to C. puspa, Horsfield, this species seems to be the commonest Cyaniris in Sikkim 5 
I took it at various elevations in October, and Mr. Otto Moller hastaken it in large numbers 
in the spring. ‘The males are very constant, but I have not seen the female.” 
“C. placida is very close to, if not identical with, the Lycena cagaya of Felder (Reise 
Novara, Lep., vol. ii, p. 278, n. 347, pl. xxxiv, figs. 11, 12, male; 13, female, 1865, from Luzon). 
In C. cagaya the marginal spots on the upperside of the hindwing in the male are more pro- 
minent than in C. placida.” (de Nicéville, |. c.) 
This species appears to be very constant in Sikkim. I have seena few specimens of the 
male which have an irrorated discal white patch on the upperside of the forewing. Mr. 
Miller has Sikkim specimens taken in March, May, and October. I am still unable to identify 
the female. Its range appears to be from Sikkim eastwards to Upper Assam, reappearing in 
Upper Burma, where Mr. Doherty obtained it, and at Penang, There is also a male specimen 
in the Phayre Museum, Rangoon, from Syinbyudine, on the Tavoy-Siam frontier, taken in 
December. I append as a footnote Mr. Moore’s description of this species.* 
686. Oyaniris jynteana, de N. 
C. jynteana, de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lii, pt. 2) p. 69, n. 5, pl. i, fig. 7, male; 7a, female (1883)3 
C. jynteana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 524, pl. xlviiii, fig. 10, male; C. fynteana, var. Distant, 
Rhop. Malay., p. 452, n. 3, pl. xliv, fig. 6, ale (1886). 
Hapirat: Sikkim, Shillong, Khasia and Jyntea Hills, Malacca ? 
EXPANSE: ¢@, I'05 to 1'403 *90 to 1'25 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: *“‘ MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings somewhat deep lavender-blue, Fure- 
wing with the outer margin widest at the apex, sometimes reduced toa point at the hinder 
angle, dusky black ; an indistinct disco-cellular streak sometimes absent ; and the dise between 
the median nervules just beyond the cell irrorated with white scales in some specimens. 
indwing with the outer margin dusky black, its inner edge lunulated. In some specimens the 
apical area is obscurely irrorated with white. UNDeRsIDE, doth wings pale grey. Forewing 
with a pale brown slender disco-cellular streak, a discal series of five similar spots, of which 
the upper one is much out of line, being placed nearer to the base of the wing ; a submarginal 
lunulated line and marginal spots very pale brown; the usual fine anteciliary black line. 
Hindwing with three subbasal black spots; a slender brown disco-cellular streak ; a very 
sinuous discal series of nine spots ; marginal markings as on the forewing. FEMALE. UppEr- 
SIDE, forewing with all but the middle of the disc (which is white, glossed with iridescent blue) 
black ; a disco-cellular black spot. Hindwing blackish, white in the middle, glossed with blue, 
and along the veins irrorated with black scales ; a submarginal series of pale lunules. UNpER: 
SIDE, both wings marked exactly as in the male.” 
‘*The males differ in size, in the absence in some specimens of the white patch on the 
disc of the forewing on the upperside, and also in the width of the marginal black border, 
* “ Allied to C. davendularis, Moore. Mare. Uppersipr, both wings of a darker but duller blue, and of 
a uniform tint throughout, C. davendudaris having the discal areas slightly whitish; marginal black borders 
similar but slightly narrower. UNDERSIDE, doth wings similarly marked, except that in the forewing there 
are but four transverse discal spots, which are also disposed in a more linear series.’ (A/oore, | a The 
discal spots are very irregular in number, specimens with five and six spots are common from sikkim. 
