340 



short line on the discocellulars and an anticiliary very slender pale 

 brown line. Antennae dark brownish-black, the shafts conspicuously 

 ringed with white, head, thorax and abdomen with tufted pale 

 bluish pubescence ; beneath : palpi white, with a fringe of stiff 

 black hairs, thorax with bluish hairs paler than on the uppersicle, 

 abdomen white. $ . Upperside : very dark brown ; both fore and 

 hind wings overlaid from base outwards with a dense irroration 

 of blue scales. The extent of this irroration is very variable, in 

 some it is confined to the basal area of the wings, in others it 

 spreads diffusely outwards over about the basal two-thirds of the 

 fore wing and up to the disc on the hind wing. Fore wing: the 

 terminal margin evenly dark brown, of a shade darker than the 

 ground-colour, almost black in some specimens ; within this is a 

 subterminal transverse series of conspicuous orange-red spots, the 

 spots become obsolete towards the apex, in a few specimens only 

 the posterior spots are distinct. Hind wing : a subterminal series 

 of black spots inwardly margined with orange-red, and an anti- 

 ciliary slender black line generally indistinct. Underside : ground- 

 colour and markings more or less as in the 3 , but the ground- 

 colour is a darker more brownish grey, the spots large and more 

 prominently encircled with white ; in many specimens the white 

 encircling the discocellular black spot and the discal black spots in 

 interspaces 3 and 4 on the hind wing are diffusely spread outwards 

 in a manner similar to the same markings on the hind wing of 

 L. stoliczkana. Cilia white. Antennae as in the <$ , head, thorax 

 and abdomen with darker but similar pubescence ; beneath : palpi, 

 thorax and abdomen white, the latter two in a few specimens very 

 pale bluish. 



Exp. <$ $ 32-36 mm. (T28-1-42"). 



Bab. The Palaearctic Region (except the Polar area). Within 

 our limits, the Himalayas : Chitral, Ladakh ; Baluchistan. 



The above description is from specimens taken at Quetta and 

 in the Chitral Valley. I am quite unable to separate them or 

 the specimens so labelled of persica, yarkundensit, kasJigarensis 

 and fugitiva in the British Museum from English and European 

 specimens of the " Common blue." L. fugitiva, Butler, so far as the 

 type-specimen is concerned, seems to be the most distinct ; the 

 ground-colour on the upperside is paler, more purple, but other 

 specimens of the same variety grade into typical icarus. 



709. Lycaena eros, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. i, 1808, p. 42. 



Hace balucha. 



Lycaana balucha, Moore, J. A. S. B. 1884. p. 24 : Swinhoe, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 340. 



Race balucha. Moore. J . Upperside : shining opalescent 

 purplish blue. Fore wing : costa margined with a very slender 

 white line, edged below the apical two-thirds still more narrowly 

 with black ; termen edged with a broader black line, that inwardly 



