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white area are superposed a transverse, postdiscal, highly curved 

 series of connected black lunules, a subterminal series of small 

 black spots, one in each interspace, and an anticiliary slender black 

 line ; the posterior two spots of the subterminal row are inwardly 

 edged with bright ochraceous and sprinkled with metallic blue 

 scales. Antennae black, the club touched with white apically and 

 the shaft ringed with the same colour ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 black with a little blue pubescence ; beneath : the palpi, thorax, 

 abdomen white. 5 . Upperside : brown or fuscous brown. In 

 Baluchistan specimens ; fore wing : with postdiscal inner and outer 

 transverse series of whitish spots, the inner series much more 

 clearly defined ; a faint black spot on the discocellulars and an 

 anticiliary dark line. Hind wing: a similar incomplete series of 

 white spots followed by a row of obscure black spots that are 

 outwardly edged very slenderly but conspicuously with white, and 

 have the subtornal two spots crowned inwardly with ochraceous 

 red ; an anticiliary dark line as on the fore wing. In Chitral 

 specimens : on the fore wing the postdiscal series of spots is absent 

 or only faintly indicated ; occasionally there is an obscure trans- 

 verse series of two or three dull black spots crowned inwardly 

 with ochraceous red. Hind wing : more or less as in Baluchistan 

 specimens, but the postdiscal series of white spots absent or barely 

 indicated, the other markings not so clearly defined. Underside : 

 in specimens both from Baluchistan and Chitral, as in the rf, 

 the ground-colour more brownish, the markings large and clearly 

 defined. 



Exp. rf $ 30-38 mm. (1-18-1-50"). 



Hab. Asia Minor; Persia; Chitral; Baluchistan. 



Var. chamanica, Moore. The d is slightly paler blue on the 

 upperside, on the underside the markings though small are 

 precisely as in L. loeivii. 



712. Lycaena devanica, Moore (Polyommatus), P. Z. S. 1874, p. 573, 

 pl. 66, fig. 4 rf ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 71. 



o . Upperside : dusky brown with more or less of a dense 

 irroration of blue scales that spreads from the bases of the wings 

 outwards towards the termen. The amount of this blue scaling 

 is irregular and variable ; on the fore wing it never extends up to 

 the apex or terminal margin ; on the hind wing never further 

 than the disc. Fore wing : a short transverse line or elongate 

 spot on the discocellulars and a slender black anticiliary line. 

 Hind wing : without markings ; in a few specimens traces of one 

 or two subterminal dusky spots near the tornal angle ; a slender 

 black anticiliary line as on the fore wing. Cilia of both fore and 

 hind wings white. Underside : greyish brown ; bases of both 

 fore and hind wings irrorated with blue scales. Fore wing : with 

 the following black, white-encircled spots : a transverse spot on 

 the discocellulars, a curved series of five, sometimes six, discal spots 

 and a subterminal transverse complete series of smaller spots, the 



