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close to costal margin. Antennae about half length of fore wing ; 

 club well-marked, oval, pointed at tip; palpi subporrect, scaled, 

 with short stiff hairs in front, third joint moderately long ; eyes 

 naked or hairy ; legs slender. J . Pore legs : tibiae and tarsi 

 tapered, the latter long, exarticulate, spined beneath. $ . Fore 

 legs normal, with minute claws. 



Key to the forms of Lycama. 



A. Eyes not hairy. 



a. Brown without any blue colouring on 



upperside. 

 '. Underside hind wing : ground-colour 



brown or brownish grey. 

 a 2 . Upperside fore and hind wings : 

 well-marked subterminal series 

 of black spots, bordered out- 

 wardly by a series of orange- 

 red lunules L. astrarche, p. 337. 



b~. Upperside fore and hind wings: 

 uniform, no subterminal series 



of orange-red lunules L. iris, p. 337. 



b' . Underside hind Aving : ground-colour 



pale metallic green L. younyhusbandi, p. 338. 



b. "With more or less of blue colouring on 



upperside in c? . 

 '. Underside hind wing : ground-colour 



grey or brownish grey. 

 2 . Underside hind wing ; subterminal 

 series of spots present and 

 speckled with metallic green 

 scales i L - chrtst pl"> race 



b\ Underside hind wing': 'subterminal ( samudra, p. 346. 



series of spots present or absent ; 

 when present not speckled with 

 metallic scales. 

 3 . Upperside fore wing : without 



a trace of discal spots. 

 a 4 . Cilia of both fore and hind 

 wings: white conspicuously 



spotted with black L. hi/las, p. 351. 



b 4 . Cilia of both fore and hind 



wings: white or grey, not 



spotted with black'or at any 



rate not conspicuously so. 



a''. Underside hind wing : discal 



spots black, each encircled 



with white L. loewii,?. 343. 



b'. Underside hind wing : discal 



spots entirely white. 

 a 6 . Upperside: ground-colour 



purplish blue ; fore . T , 

 wing rounded at apex. . \ L ' P^etes , race 

 4. Upperside: ground-colour < lefiana, p. 352. 



deep metallic blue : 



fore wing acute at , T 1 



a j L. plieretes, race 



' ' | asiatica, p. 353. 



