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Cilia of both fore aud hind wings basally fuscous, outwardly white. 

 Antenna) black, the shafts ringed with white ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen dark brown, in fresh specimens clothed with purplish- 

 blue pubescence ; beneath : palpi, thorax and abdomen whitish. 

 $> . Upperside : brown. Pore and hind wings : subterminal trans- 

 verse series of large, somewhat quadrate ochraceous-red spots, 

 011 the fore wing generally four posited in interspaces 1 a, 1, 2 

 and 3 ; on the hind wing seven, the series complete ; on both fore 

 and hind wings the posterior two spots of the series are geminate. 

 Underside : much as in the c? , but the ground-colour of both fore 

 and hind wings darker. In many specimens the apex and upper 

 portion of the termen of the fore wing are suffused prominently 

 with pale metallic green, and the posterior, postdiscal. large dusky 

 brown markings practically absent. Cilia of both fore and hind 

 wings and the antenna? as in the d 1 ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 above brown ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen white, as 

 in the d" 



Exp. 6 $ 35-40 mm. (1-38-1-58"). 



Hob. N.W. Himalayas : Chitral, Pangi, Kashmir, Kulu, hills 

 north of Simla. 



I have followed de Niceville in treating L. nycula, Moore, as a 

 variety of L. galathea, but with considerable doubt. Specimens of 

 L. nycula. Moore, in the British Museum, so named by Dr. Butler, 

 differ from typical galaihea as follows : 3 . Upperside : ground- 

 colour of a more bluish purple. Underside : posterior portion of 

 the disc of the fore wing darker grey, almost fuscous ; apex in all 

 the specimens suffused with metallic green. Hind wing : ground- 

 colour a much darker metallic green than in any specimen of 

 galathea that I have seen, almost, in some specimens quite, as rich 

 a metallic green as in L. omphisa, Moore. $ . Underside : ground- 

 colour darker metallic green than in the <$ and much darker than 

 in the $ of L. galathea, the metallic green in certain lights suf- 

 fused with blue. 



Exp. <3 $ as in L. galathea. 



Hab. Described originally from Kuuawar. 



717. Lycsena orbitulus, Esper (Papilio), Schmett. i (? 1800), pi. 112, 

 fig. 4. 



Race jaloka. 



Polyommatus jaloka, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 573, pi. 66, fig. 3 rf ; 



de N. (Lycaj'na) Suit. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 86. 

 Polyommatus ellisi, Marshall, J. A. S. B. 1882, p. 41, pi. 4, fig. 4 <J; 



de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 87. 



Lycama ? leela, de N., J.A.8. S. 1883, p. 66, pi. 1, figs. 3, 3 a, 6 $ ; 

 'id. (Lyctena) Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 87. 



A variable form ; some specimens are scarcely separable from 

 L. orbitulus, Esper, of which it is undoubtedly a geographical race. 



Race jaloka, Moore. <3 . Upperside : brown suffused with 

 metallic blue or green to a varying extent from the bases of the 

 wings outwards. Typically the blue or green occupies about the 

 basal three-fourths of the wings, and leaves on the fore wing a 



