the RJiopalocera of the Mt. Everest 1921 Expedition. 475 



28. Lycaena pheretes pharis Fawcett. 



1910. Plebeius pharis Swinhoe, I.e., viii, p. 17. 



1 ^, Tilling La, 14,500 ft., 15/7/21 ; 1 6^, 1 ?, Rebii, 

 14,000 ft., 31/7/21 {W.). 



29. Lycaena asiatica Elwes, 



1907. Lycaena p)heretes race asiatica Bing., I.e., ii, p. 352. 

 1910. Plebeius asiatica Swinhoe, I.e., viii, p. 17. 

 1912. Lycaena {AJbulina) asiatica Evans, I.e., p. 983. 

 1 ?, E. of Everest, 14,000 ft., 9/8/21 [B.). 



Evans and Swinhoe are perfectly correct in treating this 

 as a species distinct from pheretes. It is confusingly like 

 that species, but has notliing to do mth it in reality. 



30. Lycaena janigena, sp. nov. 

 (PL XXXVI, fig. 4 ^, fig. 5 ?.) 



1 ?, 18/7/21; 1 ^, 19/6/21, Nyenyam, 13,000 ft. (W.). 



Q. Upperside, both ivings : deep purplisli blue, with a roughish 

 appearance, an even black marginal border, 1 rnm. wide or slightly 

 more, cilia white. Underside, fore-wing : dull grey brown, the 

 basal area pure grey, an angular, white-ringed, dark mark at cell 

 end followed by a discal series of five broadly white-ringed darker 

 spots, those in areas 4 and 5 much displaced outwardly, the upper- 

 most elongate, shifted inwards slightly, a very faint paler submarginal 

 area, no marginal markings, a fine dark anteciliary line, the pure 

 white fringes deeply but narrov.ly blackened at the ends of the veins, 

 no markings in the cell. Hind-iving : ground-colour much darker 

 and browner than fore-wing, basal area greyer, a basal series of four 

 large white spots, in 7, the cell (double and nearly filling the cell), Ic 

 and 16, a similar very large spot at cell end, and a discal series of 

 7 the same but oval in shape, contiguous, those in areas Ic to 5 in a 

 straight row towards apex, those in areas 6 and 7 in line with spot 

 in 5 and forming an angle of about 70° to the others, marginal area, 

 except for a small area close to the discal spots diffusely pale grey, 

 cilia as on fore -wing. 



$. Up2ierside, both iinngs : uniformly sooty brown, with a few 

 scattered blue scaJes, cilia darker than in i^. Fore-wing : with a 

 small, faint, grey-ringed spot at cell end. Underside, both wings : 

 exactly like the (j*, except for a more ochreous general tone, the 

 presence of a sixth spot (in area la) in the discal series, and traces of 

 darker marginal markings on the fore-wing. 



