380 Mr. H. J. Elwes’ catalogue of the 
? 249. Zizera pygmea. 
Lycena pygmea, Snell., Tijdschr. Ent., xix., t. vii., 
fig. 3 (1876). 
Moller includes this species as one taken formerly by 
him in the Terai, but I have seen no specimens that 
I can identify with it.* 
250. Zizera sangra. 
Polyommatus sangra, Moore, P. Z.8., 1865, p. 772, 
t. 41, 8. 
Lycena indica, Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1854, 
p. 525. 
This species is so close to L. lysimon of Hubner that 
I have great doubts about separating it, but the speci- 
mens I have from Sumatra, the Andamans, Calcutta, 
Buxa, and Sikkim seem to be of a paler blue above with 
a narrower dark border than my series of lysimon from 
Algeria, Andalusia, and the Canary Islands. What is 
usually called ZL. indica, which I have from Ceylon, 
Central India, Bombay, and the N.W. Himalaya, are 
so close that I cannot certainly distinguish them from 
sangra, though, as a rule, the markings below are more 
distinct, and the spots on the fore wing below larger. 
The species occurs in the Terai and outer hills in the 
cold weather, and I have taken it in the Tista Valley in 
August, but it is rare in the interior of the hills. 
251. Lycena (Zizera) maha. 
2 Lycena otis, Fabr., Mant. Ins, i, p.73; Butl., Cat. 
Fabr., t ii. fig 8 (1870). 
LL. maha, Koll, Hugel’s Kash., p. 422 (1848). 
L. argia, Men., Cat. Mus. Petr., 125, t. x., fig. 7 (1857). 
L. japonica, Murr , Ent. Mo. Mag, xi., p. 167 (1874). 
L. diluta, Feld., Reise Nov. Lep., i1., p. 280, t. 35, 
figs. 62, 13 (1865). 
L. similis, Moore. 
Zizera, sp. nova, Moore MSS., ex. coll. Elwes. 
If my series of this species was not a very large one 
(85 specimens), I should feel hardly justified in uniting 
so many supposed species, but I see no way by which 
they can be separated with certainty. 
* Mr. de Niceville writes to me that this species is identical with 
L. Gailsa, Trim., of South Africa. 
