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irregularly outwards chiefly along the costa and on the hind wing 

 in the middle to the disc; in others, it covers the basal three- 

 fourths of the wings, leaving a well-defined broad terminal margin 

 of the ground-colour on the fore wing, and ou the hind wing, 

 broad costal, terminal and dorsal margins ; cilia conspicuously 

 white. Underside, fore wing : clear, slightly brownish grey, paler 

 along the costal and terminal margins ; a transverse, slightly 

 lunular discocellular spot and a transverse series of six small 

 discal spots black, all with slender white edgings, the discal series 

 placed in a slight curve, the posterior three spots en echelon ; no 

 terminal markings except an anticiliary dark line. Hind wing : 

 metallic green ; in many specimens faint traces of one or two 

 subbasal spots, entirely absent in others ; a discocellular spot and 

 a curved, transverse, discal series of from three to five spots, white ; 

 terminal markings, with the exception of a slender anticiliary 

 dark line, absent, as on the fore wing. Antennae, head, thorax 

 and abdomen brownish black, the shafts of the antennae ringed 

 with white, the head, thorax and abdomen with some bluish 

 pubescence ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen white, the 

 palpi fringed anteriorly with stiff black hairs. $ . Upperside : 

 uniform brown. .Fore and hind wings : with slender, black, anti- 

 ciliary lines and conspicuous snow-white cilia. Many specimens 

 have some slight irroration of blue scales at the bases of the wings. 

 Underside : similar to that of the c? , the black spots on the fore 

 and the white spots on the hind wing generally larger, and on the 

 latter wing more clearly defined. 



Exp. d $ 26-33 mm. (1-1-30"). 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas : Chitral, Lahoul, Ladakh. 



716. Lycaena galathea, Biancham in Jacq. Voy. Ind. iv, 1844, p. 21, 

 pi. 1, figs. 5, 0, cf ; Moore (Polyommatus)^ P. Z. S. 1874, p. 271 ; 

 id. Sci. Res. Second Yarkand Mission, Lep. 1879, p. 6. 



Lycsena inetallica, Felder, Novara Reise, Lep. ii, 1865, p. 283, 

 pi. 3, figs. 7, 8 (nee fig. 9). 



Polyommatus nycula, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 503, pi. 31, fig. 3 rf. 



c? Upperside : dark violet, with in certain lights a beautiful 

 shining blue gloss. Fore and hind wings : veins black ; terminal 

 margins and costal margin of the hind wing narrowly black. In 

 some specimens this edging is on the terminal margins reduced to 

 a slender but well-marked anticiliary line. Underside, fore wing : 

 slightly brownish grey, paler towards the apex and along the 

 termen ; a short, transverse, lunular, dusky black line on the 

 discocellulars, followed by a transverse, curved, discal series of 

 six similarly coloured spots, prominently encircled with sullied 

 white. In most specimens these discal spots are followed by a 

 posterior postdiecal row of large subquadrate diffuse markings of 

 dusky brown. Hind wing: pale metallic green, of a tint some- 

 what paler than in L. omphisa, Moore; a discocellular spot fol- 

 lowed by a medially, outwardly angulated discal series of seven 

 spots, white ; in many specimens one or more of these spots absent. 



