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thorax in the tf with blue pubescence ; beneath : the palpi, 

 thorax and abdomen white. 



Exp. c? $ 33-36 mm. (1-30-1-40"). 



Hab. Western Himalayas : Kashmir, Murree, Simla, Mussoorie, 

 Naini Tal. 



I am very doubtful whether the next described form, G. huegeli, 

 Moore, is distinct from this ; a constant difference in size seems to 

 be the chief distinction. Mr. de Niceville (I. c.) says " there is no 

 difficulty whatever in recognizing C. coelestina. Both sexes are 

 considerably smaller than G. Imer/eli and the males have the outer 

 black border on the upperside of the fore wing broader and con- 

 siderably dilated at the apex." I have not, however, found this 

 latter character at all constant in C. coelestina, and in G. Jiueyeli 

 the narrow black border to the fore wing is distinctly though very 

 slightly also dilated towards the apex in all specimens that I have 



704. Cyaniris huegeli (PI. XIX, fig. 129), Moore. 



Lycsena argiolus, Kottar (nee Linnceus) in HiiyeVs Kaschmir, iv, 



1848, p. 423. 



Cyaniris huegelii, Moore, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 244 ; de N. Suit. Ind. 

 iii, 1890, p. 107. 



Race singalensis. 



Lycsena singalensis, Felder, Verlt. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xviii. 18G8, 

 "p. 282 ; Moore (Cyaniris), Lep. Ceijl, i, 1881, p. 76, pi. 35, figs. 1, 

 l,c? ; de N. Suit. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 108. 



^ $. Very closely resembles C. coelestina. d . Upperside: 011 

 the whole of a slightly more purple tint than coelestina ; black 

 border to the termen of the fore wing generally slightly more even 

 in width from apex to toruus ; anticiliary black line on the hind 

 wing slightly broader and slightly diffuse on the inner side. 

 Underside : ground-colour and markings similar to those of 

 G. ccelestina and much more rarely obsolescent, the posterior two 

 lunules of the inner subterminal series on the fore wing apparently 

 always broad, large and diffuse. Cilia of both fore and hind 

 wings as in coelestina. $ . In ground-colour and markings on the 

 upperside like a large edition of C. coelestina $ . On the underside 

 ground-colour and markings as in its own c? and similarly with the 

 markings seldom or never obsolescent. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen as in G. coelestina. 



Exp. 3 $ 42-45 mm. (1-68-1 78"). 



Hab. Concurrent with that of C. coelestina, Kollar. 



Race singalensis, Eelder. d 1 . Upperside : purplish blue with in 

 certain lights a refulgent silvery iridescence, most conspicuous along 

 the costa of the fore wing. Eore and hind wings : a very narrow 

 black edging to the terminal margins narrower on the hind wing 

 than on the fore wing, not dilated towards the apex of the latter. 

 Cilia conspicuously white. Underside : silvery white with a slight 

 tinge of blue ; both fore and hind wings with the usual Cyaniri* 



