106 LYCAENID/E. CYANIRIS. 
probably the dark rains form of C. jynteana. From the plate it appears to bea rather larger 
species than the C. jynéeana as figured by Mr. Moore, the outer black marginal border about 
one-third broader, the markings of the underside much the same. Mr. Moore recorded C. 
jynteana from the Khasia and Jyntea Hills, so I think that when he described C. stkkima 
he considered it to be the Sikkim representative of that species, though I have specimens of C, 
jynteana from Sikkim named by Mr. Moore since his description of C, sikkima was published. 
688. Cyaniris coolestina, Kollar. 
Lycena celestina, Kollar, Hiigel’s Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt. 2, p. 423) 0. 10 (1848); Cyanirvis celestina, 
Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1882, p. 244; Lycena kollari, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 4975 
n. 69 (1852); Cyantris kollari, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 367, n. 45} idem, id., Ann. and Mag. 
of Nat. Hist., sixth series, vol. i, p. 148, n. 5x (1888) ; Polyommatus kasmira, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1865, p. 503, N. 100, pl. xxxi, fig. 1, wale; idem, id., l. c., 1874, p. 271, 0. 67. 
HABITAT: Western Himalayas. 
EXxPANSE: @, 1°00 to 1°35; ?, 105 to 1°35 inches. 
DescrIpTION: “MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings purplish lavender-blue, exterior margins 
blackish. UNDERSIDE, both wings cream-white. Forewing with an indistinct disco-cellular 
streak, beyond which, one-third from the apex, is a single white-encircled black spot; a 
transverse discal series of four white-encircled black spots; a marginal double row of indis- 
tinct blackish lunules. Aindwing with twelve basally-disposed, white-encircled, black spots ; 
a marginal row of blackish spots, bordered by a submarginal series of indistinct blackish 
lunules. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings brighter blue. Forewing with the costa and ex- 
terior margin, Ainvdwing with the anterior margin broadly dull black, the latter with a marginal 
row of blackish spots, bordered by a submarginal series of lunules. UNDERSIDE, doth wings 
asin the male. Cz/ia white.” (Moore, 1. c.in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865.) 
Larva when full grown ‘6 of an inch in length ; of the usual lyczenid shape, coloration pale 
light green, of the exact shade of young leaves ; the very small head, placed upon a long neck, is 
intensely black and shining ; the segments increase slightly in width to the fifth, then gradually 
decrease to the thirteenth, the whole surface is finely shagreened, but entirely without mark- 
ings, except two dorsal lines of a pale bluish-green colour from the second to the tenth 
segment, slightly converging posteriorly, the colour of the ground between these lines slightly 
darker than the rest of the surface ; a few colourless short lateral hairs; the segments 
shallowly constricted; no mouth-like opening on the eleventh or erectile organs on the 
twelfth segments. Feeds on Prinsefia utilis, native name Bhenkal. Pupa ‘40 to ‘45 of an 
inch in length ; of the usual lyczenid shape, pale brown, irregularly and obscurely spotted 
and blotched with darker brown, no regular markings whatever, the surface rough, with short 
colourless bristly hairs. 
I am indebted to Mr. P. W. Mackinnon for living examples of the larve and pupz of this 
species collected at Masuri in the Western Himalayas. He informs me after careful watching 
that ants do not attend the larve. 
Both Eversmann (1843) and Kollar (1848) described species of blues under the name 
of Zycena calestina ; hence considerable confusion has arisen. I think, however, that instead 
of following Westwood’s action in renaming Kollar’s species 4o//art, both names may be 
retained, as Eversmann’s species, as far as I can ascertain, is a true Zycena, while Kollar’s is 
a Cyaniris. In 1882 Mr. Moore put straight the synonymy of the two species of this group 
occurring in the Western Himalayas. This Mr. Butler has of late upset. In Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1886, p. 367, he gives Aollari of Westwood, with calestina, of Kollar, as a synonym, 
remarking that ‘‘ Kollar’s name having been already used by Eversmann cannot possibly be 
admitted,” Inthe Ann. and Mag. of Nat, Hist, 1888, vol.i, p. 148, he revives hasmira of 
Moore, which the latter gentleman said, in 1882, is a synonym of ce/estina, Kollar, and gives 
kollari of Westwood without any synonymy as a distinct species. I can recognise two species 
of this group only, but Butler appears to recognise three, kasmira, kollari, and huegelti. He 
notes, however, that the two former may possibly be races, or even alternating generations, of 
