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fuscous black ; costal margin and apex of hind wing more broadly 

 so ; in fresh specimens the bluish scaling on the hind wing 

 posteriorly is carried nearly to the terminal margin, this gives the 

 wing an appearance of a posterior terminal series of three or four 

 large fuscous black spots, one in each interspace ; cilia white. 

 Underside : pale grey. Fore wing with the usual transverse disco- 

 cellular and discal series of six white-encircled black spots, no spot 

 in the cell or in interspace 1 ; the discal row of spots regular (not 

 sinuate), slightly curved, very obliquely placed, sloping posteriorly 

 inwards, the four posterior spots in the series large and posited 

 en echelon ; these are followed by a double subterminal series of 

 dusky lunules and a slender anticiliary black line ; the series of 

 lunules become in many specimens obsolescent anteriorly. Hind 

 wing: the markings much as in the $ of L. balucha, but the discal 

 series of spots is placed further inwards, the spots of the subterminal 

 row are speckled with minute metallic green scales, and the ochra- 

 ceous edging to the transverse series of black lunules is wanting. 

 5 . Uppcrside : brown, the bases of the wings irrorated with 

 bluish-grey scales, the irroration extended irregularly along the 

 dorsal margin of the hind wing. Cilia of fore and hind wings con- 

 spicuously white. Underside: ground-colour as in the d" ; markings 

 slightly larger, more clearly denned. Fore wing : the transverse 

 discal series of spots bisinuate, the posterior three spots of the 

 series distinctly larger than the others, the middle spot of these 

 three shifted inwards ; the terminal markings consist of a trans- 

 verse postdiscal series of black lunules edged outwardly with 

 bright ochraceous, followed by a transverse series of black spots 

 and an anticiliary black line, all very clearly defined. Hind wing: 

 markings very similar to those of the d 1 , but the discal series 

 of spots is closer to the base of the wing and the postdiscal 

 transverse row of black lunules is prominently edged outwardly 

 with ochraceous. In both sexes the antennae are black, the shafts 

 ringed as usual with white ; the head, thorax and abdomen are 

 dark brown or black with a more or less dense clothing of 

 purplish-blue hairs and scales ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and 

 abdomen white. 



Exp. c? $ 30-33 mm. (1-18-1-30"). 



Hab. Within our limits, Baltistan : Grol, Skardo ; Baluchistan: 

 Quetta. 



Lyccena bracteata, Butler, described from Kandahar seems to me 

 inseparable from this form. 



715. Lycaena omphisa (PI. XIX, fig. 131), Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, 



p. 573, pi. 06 fig. 2 tf ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 84. 

 Lycaena metallica, pt,, Felder, Novara Eeise, Lep. ii, 1865, p. 283, 

 pi. 35, fi<?. 9 (me figs. 7 & 8). 



c? . Upperside . dark brown. Fore and hind wings : overlaid 

 from base outwards for some distance with purplish blue, clear 

 dark blue or shining metallic green. The extent of this colour 

 very variable ; in some specimens, on the fore wing it spreads 



