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and abdomeu above greyish blue ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and 

 abdomen white. $ . Upperside : purplish brown, with more or less 

 of an irroration of bluish-grey scales at the bases of the wings ; 

 the markings somewhat as in the J , but in var. cashmirensis 

 the white subterminal lunules on the fore and the black sub- 

 terminal spots on the hind wing are, in all specimens that I have 

 seen, very obscure. The underside, antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen as in the d . 



Exp. rf 2 28-31 mm. (MO-1-24"). 



Hub. N.W. Himalayas : Kashmir, Kunawar ; Baltistan ; Baluch- 

 istan ; westwards and northwards to Afghanistan, Central Asia, 

 Eussia, Southern and Central Europe. Within our limits it 

 occurs at elevations of from 6000 to 14,000 feet. 



719. Lycsena pheretes, Hiibner (Papilio), Eur. Schmett. i, 1805, 

 p. 45. 



Race lehana (PL XIX, figs. 132, 133, rf $ ). 



Polyommatus lehanus, Moore, A. M. N. H. (5) i, 1878, p. 230; 

 id. Sci. Res. Second York. Miss., Lep. 1879, p. 6, pi. 1, fig. 6 rf ; 

 de N. (Lyctena) EiAt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 81. 



Race asiatica (PI. XIX, fig. 134). 



Lycaena pheretes, Hiibner, var. asiatica, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1882, 

 "p. 402 ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 382 ; de N. JSutt. Ind. iii, 

 1890, p. 81. 



Race lehana, Moore. d 1 $ . Eyes smooth. J . Upper side : 

 purplish blue, dark blue at the bases, of the wings. Pore and 

 hind wings with somewhat obscure, slender, black, anticiliary lines, 

 followed by very full, snow-white cilia. Underside : grey, pale 

 plumbeous brown on the discs of the wings, the bases of both fore 

 and hind wings irrorated with bluish-green scales. Fore wing : a 

 narrow transverse black luuule on the discocellulars and a trans- 

 verse curved discal series of five white spots, each spot centred 

 with black. Hind wing : a streak in the cell, a spot above it near 

 the costa and a discal series of five spots, of which the posterior 

 four are in a very oblique line directed outwards, and the upper 

 or fifth is much larger, placed much further inwards above the 

 apex of the cell. In the type and a few others the discal spots 

 are seven or eight in number, and smaller than in the majority of 

 specimens I have seen. Antennae dark brown, the shafts as usual 

 ringed with white ; head, thorax and abdomen clothed with bluish 

 hairs ; beneath : the palpi fringed with black hairs, thorax and 

 abdomeu white. $ . Similar to the c? , but on the upperside the 

 ground-colour is rich brown, the bases of the wings only blue. 

 Underside : ground-colour and markings as in the c? Antennae, 

 head, thorax and abdomen similar to those of the <S , but the 

 latter three brown, not clothed with bluish hairs. 



