338 LYC-ENID/E. 



subterminal, obscure, small black spots near the tornal angle. Cilia 



prominently white. Under - 

 side : brownish grey, Fore 

 wing: the following white- 

 encircled jet-black spots : 

 a large oval spot on the 

 , discocellulars; a transverse, 



- g() bisinuate, discal series of 



a. Lycana iris. ' six 8 P ts > the lower tw ar ' 



ft. Zgfcana frfo, var. Underside fore wing. ranged in a slightly oblique 



line directly beneath the 



discocellular spot, the next spot above further outwards towards the 

 termeu, the remaining three still further outwards, in transverse 

 slightly oblique line to the costa, the posterior spot of the whole series 

 slightly elongate and curved; beyond these are an inner and an outer 

 transverse somewhat maculated line and an anticiliary unbroken 

 line darker than the ground-colour, the innermost of the three 

 lines bordered inwardly with whitish. Hind wing : a subbasal, 

 transverse line of four well-separated spots, a short streak or 

 elongate transverse spot on the discocellulars and a bisinuate, 

 transverse, discal series of six spots jet-black, each spot with a 

 slender ring of white ; the posterior but one spot of the subbasal 

 line is minute, and the posterior spot of the discal series slightly 

 elongate and curved. The terminal markings consist of a trans- 

 verse, curved, subterminal series of brown spots darker than the 

 ground-colour, bordered inwardly by a series of lunules and 

 outwardly by an anticiliary prominent line of the same tint, the 

 lines of lunules edged inwardly and somewhat obscurely with 

 white ; the posterior two spots of the subterminal series jet-black, 

 set in an ochraceous-yellow background and speckled with metallic 

 blue. Antennae black, the shafts ringed with white ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen brown ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen 

 white. 



Exp. c? $ 29-30 mm. (1-13- L-18"). 



Hub. Within our limits recorded from Chitral. Described 

 originally from Central Asia. 



707. Lycaena younghusbandi, Elwe*, P. Z. S. 1906, p. 484, pi. 30, 

 fig. 10 rf. 



S . Upperside : dark satiny brown with a slightly plumbeous 

 tint in certain lights,/ more apparent towards the bases of the 

 wings than over the outer portions. Fore and hind wings : nearly 

 uniform, with only slender black anticiliary lines and the disco- 

 cellulars of the fore wing marked by a transverse short black 

 streak ; edge of the costa of fore wing and cilia of both wings 

 snow-white. Underside, fore wing : grey ; a lunular short black 

 line on the discocellulars and a transverse discal series of six 

 black spots, each encircled with white, followed by a subterminal, 

 very obscure, transverse row of slender dusky spots, of which the 



