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wings as in jaloika, but each obscurely centred with blackish in 

 most specimens. Underside : greyish white, discs of wings brown, 

 bases irrorated somewhat densely with metallic green scales, paler 

 than in the typical race. Fore wing : with a very indistinct 

 irregular subterminal series of dark spots in addition to the disco- 

 cellular and discal spots, which are similar to those in JaloJca. 

 Hind wing : according to de Niceville has, in addition to the 

 discocellular and discal markings, " a marginal double series of 

 coalescing white lunules." I have not, however, seen any specimen 

 so marked. 



718. Lycaena hylas, Wiener Verzeichniss (Papilio), 1776, p. 185 ; Kirby, 



Cat. Di. Lep. 187 J, p. 360 ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 84. 

 Papilio hylus, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii, 1787, p. 75 ; Butler (Scolitan- 



tides), Cat. Fabr. Lepidopt. Brit. Mus. 1869, p. 167. 

 Papilio baton, Berystr. Nomencl. ii, 1779, p. 18, & iii, pi. 60, figs. 



6-8; Ehves (Lycaena), P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 889; Lang (Lycaena), 



Butt. Eur. 1884, p. 109, pi. 24, fig. 2. 



Folyommatus vicrama, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 505, pi. 31, fig. 6 5 . 

 Scolitantides cashmirensis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 272. 



c? . Upperside : greyish blue. Fore and hind wings : with or 

 without a black discocellular transverse lunule. Fore wing : 

 terminal margin narrowly and evenly dusky brown or pale greyish 

 blue, with obscure white lunules and an anticiliary black line 

 (casJimirensis, Moore). Hind wing : terminal margin as in the c? 

 or (var. cashmirensis) with a subterminal series of obscure white 

 spots that are centred prominently with black, and an anticiliary 

 black line as on the fore wing. Cilia of fore and hind wings 

 snow-white conspicuously spotted with black at the ends of the 

 veins, these latter black or concolorous with the ground-colour. 

 Underside : slightly bluish or greyish cream-colour, with the bases 

 of the wings irrorated with bluish scales and the following black 

 spots and markings : Fore wing : a spot in cell ; a transverse 

 luuular spot on the discocellulars ; a transverse, very strongly bi- 

 sinuate discal series of seven, sometimes eight, spots ; a transverse 

 postdiscal series that anteriorly curves slightly inwards of six 

 spots, followed by a very indistinct, maculated, transverse, very 

 narrow band and a clearly denned slender anticiliary line. Hind 

 wing : a curved subbasal transverse series of four spots ; a disco- 

 cellular luuule, a spot above it near costa, and two spots in a 

 straight line below it ; a transverse discal curve of four spots 

 beyond apex of cell ; a strongly curved, transverse, postdiscal series 

 of eight lunules, one in each interspace, those in interspaces 1 to 5 

 edged outwardly with ochraceous and followed by a subterminal 

 series of black spots ; lastly, a slender anticiliary black line as on 

 the fore wing. Cilia as on the upperside. In some specimens 

 the black discal spots on both fore and hind wings are encircled 

 tolerably distinctly with white. Antenna? brown, the shafts ringed 

 with white, head and thorax anteriorly snow-white, the thorax 



