332 LYC.TNlD.lt. 



abdomen blackish brown, antenna? ringed with white ; beneath : 

 palpi, thorax and abdomen white. $ . " Upperside fore wing : 

 all but the middle of the disc (which is white glossed with irides- 

 cent blue) black ; a discocellular black spot. Hind wing : blackish ; 

 white in the middle glossed with blue ; along the veins irrorated 

 with black scales ; a submarginal series of pale lunules. Under- 

 side : both wings marked exactly as in the male." (de JXiceville.) 



Exp. tf 32-34 mm. (1-26-1-32"). 



Hab. Sikhim ; hills of Assam ; also recorded from the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



703. Cyaniris ccelestina, Kollar (Lycaena) in Hiiyefs Kaschmir, iv, 

 '1848, p. 423 ; Moore. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 244 ; de JV. Suit. 1ml iii, 

 1890, p. 106. 

 Lycaena kollari, We&twood in Dblday., Westw. Sf Hew. Gen. Di. 



Lap. ii, 1852, p. 491 ; Sutler (Cyaniris). P. Z. S. 1886, p. 367. 

 Polyommatus kasinira, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 503, pi. 31, fig. 1 rf . 



d . Upperside : lilac-blue (darker on the fore than on the hind 

 wing in most specimens), with in certain lights a slight bright 

 iridescence chiefly apparent along the costal margin and A'eins of 

 the fore wing. Fore wing : a very slender black line along the 

 costal margin broadened at apex and continued slenderly down the 

 terrnen to the tornus. Hind wing : ground-colour along the 

 costal margin somewhat broadly paler ; termen with a very slender 

 anticiliary jet-black line. Cilia: snow-white on the fore wing 

 alternated very slenderly with black at the apices of the veins. 

 Underside : pearly bluish-white. Fore wing : a discocellular, short, 

 transverse, slender brownish streak, a similarly-coloured spot 

 beyond it in interspace 6, followed by three or four duller brown 

 spots in transverse order in interspaces 2 or 3 to 5 and a double 

 transverse subterminal series of lunules. Hind wing : a broad 

 diffuse transverse basal area continued for a short distance down 

 the dorsum, tinted with bluish green ; the usual subbasal and 

 discal spots very small ; the termen with a subterminal series of 

 lunules and an outer row of spots. In very many specimens the 

 markings of the underside on both fore and hind wings are 

 more or less obsolescent, in some taken at Simla in April and May 

 beyond a black speck here and there the markings are altogether 

 absent. $ . Upperside : paler duskier lilac-blue than in the c? . 

 Fore wing: costa and termen broadly bordered with dusky brownish- 

 black ; a prominent, black, short transverse streak on the disco- 

 cellulars, beyond it the lilac-blue ground-colour pale, almost white. 

 Hind wing : the blue ground-colour much restricted, the costal 

 and terminal margins broadly blackish-brown, the dorsal margin 

 whitish ; the dark colour on the terminal margin traversed by a 

 series of inwardly conical, brown-centred bluish spots and followed 

 by a prominent anticiliary black line. Cilia as in the 3 . Under- 

 side : very similar to that of the c? and similarly with the markings 

 very often obsolescent. Antenna?, head, thorax and abdomen in 

 both sexes dark brownish-black, the antennae ringed with white, the 



