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similar to those of the c? but better defined, both fore and hind 

 wings with a postdiscal transverse series of slender black lunules 

 always edged outwardly with ochraceous. this edging faint in 

 some specimens, i-ieh ochraceous red in others. Antennae as in 

 the <$ ; head, thorax and abdomen dark brown; beneath: the 

 palpi, thorax and abdomen dusky white. 



Eacp. rf ? 31-42 mm. (1-2-1-66"). 



Hab. The Himalayas : from Chitral and Kashmir to the Chumbi 

 Valley in Native Sikhim. 



From the measurements given above it will be seen that 

 this form varies as much in its size as in the character of its 

 markings. 



711. Lycsena loewii, Zeller, Isis, 1847, p. 9; Lany, Butt, Eur. 1884, 



p. 141 ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 79, pi. 26, fig. 167 <$ . 

 Lycsena chamanica, Moore, J. A. S. B. 1884, p. 23; de N. Butt. 

 Ind. iii, 1890, p. 79. 



cJ . Upperside : a beautiful purplish-blue changing in certain 

 lights to deep blue ; veins of both fore and hind wings jet-black, 

 outwardly very conspicuous. Fore wing : costa very slenderly, 

 termen from apex to tornus much more broadly and evenly black. 

 Hind wing: costa broadly, ternieu a little more narrowly and 

 dorsum broadly dusky black ; posteriorly the blue ground-colour 

 between the conspicuous black veins terminates in each interspace 

 in an intense black spot that contrasts strongly with the duller 

 black on the terminal margin ; outwardly these black spots are 

 separated from an anticiliary intense black line by a slender 

 edging of bluish-white scales. Cilia of both fore and hind wings 

 white with their basal halves dusky black. Underside : brownish 

 grey. Fore wing: a prominent, discocellular, transverse, white- 

 encircled black spot ; a transverse discal row of six comparatively 

 large black spots edged very slenderly on the inner side, very 

 broadly on the outer side with snow-white, the anterior five spots 

 of the row placed in a slight curve, the upper four round, the 

 lower spot larger, oval and obliquely placed; the lowest posterior 

 spot of the row also large, elongate, sometimes composed of two 

 geminate spots placed vertically under and out of line of the 

 curve formed by the anterior five ; these are followed by a broad 

 transverse postdiscal blackish-brown band, a terminal catenulated 

 transverse white band, each link of which is centred with a dusky 

 black spot and an anticiliary, very prominent, somewhat lunular 

 black line. Hind wing a transverse subbasal series of four black 

 spots, a transverse discocellular spot and a discal series of six 

 similar spots, the anterior five of which are placed in a semicircular 

 curve, vertically below which the posterior spot, which is some- 

 times double and geminate, is posited out of line of the curve 

 formed by the anterior five. All these spots encircled with white, 

 which on the outer side of the discal series of spots entirely 

 replaces the ground-colour, up to the terminal margin. On the 



