350 LYCJENID.E. 



broad edging to the costa and still broader edging to the termen 

 of the ground-colour ; on the hind wing it occupies a medial area 

 from the base to the disc, and leaves a broad brown edging to the 

 costa, termen and dorsum. Fore and hind wings: discocellular 

 spots black encircled by pale edgings, followed on both wings by 

 transverse discal series of pale bluish-white spots and anticiliary 

 slender black lines. In some these spots are very prominent, in 

 others barely indicated. Underside : brownish, turning to greyish 

 white on the termen. Fore wing : a more or less obscure pale- 

 bordered discocellular spot, followed by a transverse, slightly curved 

 discal series of six black spots encircled with white. Hind wing: 

 the brown basal area irrorated inwardly with metallic blue scales 

 and sharply demarcated from the greyish-white terminal area 

 which occupies about half the wing ; discocellular spot large and 

 prominently white, as is an angulated transverse discal series of 

 large spots ; these latter spots in many specimens somewhat obscure 

 on the greyish-white ground-colour of the terminal half of the 

 wing. Cilia of both fore and hind wings conspicuously white. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown ; the shafts of the 

 antennae obscurely ringed with white, the thorax and abdomen with 

 a little bluish pubescence in fresh specimens ; beneath : the palpi, 

 thorax and abdomen white. $. Upperside: brown, without any 

 blue or green irroration. Fore and hind wings: markings much 

 as in the d 1 , the discal spots always somewhat more prominent. 

 Underside: as in the c? ; the discal spots generally more prominent 

 and followed in some specimens by two or three posterior, large, 

 diffuse brown markings. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen 

 similar to those of the tf , but the latter two without any blue 

 pubescence ; beneath : as in the d . 



Exp. 28-30 mm. (1-10-1-18"). 



Hob. N.W. Himalayas : Kashmir, Pangi, Ladakh. 



Var. ellisi, Marshall, differs from typical jaloka as follows : 

 J $ . Upperside : in the J the suffusion of metallic bluish-green 

 scales restricted to the immediate base of the fore wing, extended 

 slightly more outwards on the hind wing, but never so far towards 

 the termen as in jaloka ; in both sexes the discal series of spots on 

 both fore and hind wings very large and clearly defined, the dis- 

 cocellular spot prominently white, very rarely centred with dark 

 brown. Underside : creamy-white, slightly brownish on the discal 

 areas of both fore and hind wings, while 

 the discal spots on both wings are entirely 

 white, with no trace of dark centres, as on 

 the fore wing pf the typical race. Other- 

 wise as in jaloka. 



Var. leela, de Niceville, differs from 

 Fig. 81. typical jaloka as follows : The irroration OL 



Lycaina orbiiulus, metallic bluish-green scales on the upperside 



race>/oA-a, var. ellisi. of the wings extended outwards from the 



base almost but not quite so far as in jaloka ; 



the spots of the transverse discal series on both fore and hind 



