LYOIJENA. NEOLYCJEXA itod 



Exp. c? $ 28-30 mm. (MO-M8"). 



Hob. AVestern Himalayas : Ladakh, Kashmir, at from 8000 to 

 12,000 feet. 



Race asiatica, Ehves. tf Eyes smooth. Fore wing much 

 more pointed at apex, termeu straighter, wing altogether pro- 

 portionately shorter than in pheretes, race leliana. Other differ- 

 ences are as follows : <5 . Upperside : a rich metallic dark blue, 

 quite different from the purplish blue of the parent form or of 

 race lehana. Underside : ground-colour and markings similar to 

 those of leJutna, but on the fore wing the discal spots are generally 

 entirely absent or reduced to one or two, while the hind wing is 

 irrorated with metallic greenish- blue scales for two-thirds of its 

 length from base. Otherwise similar. $ . Upperside : much as 

 in race leliana, but the underside with the obsolescence of the 

 markings on the fore wing and the irroration of metallic greenish- 

 blue scales on the hind wing as in its own d . 



Exp. J $ 25-27 mm. (0-98-1-04"). 



Hob. Sikhim : the Chumbi Valley, at from 12,000 to 15,000 feet. 



Genus NEOLYCJENA. 

 Neolycama, de Niceville, Butt. 2nd. iii, 1890, p. 64. 



Type, N. sinensis, Alpheraky, from "Western China. 

 Range. Western China, Turkestan, Baluchistan. 

 d 1 $ . Fore wing : costa very slightly arched ; apex more or less 

 rounded, not acute ; termen slightly convex ; tornus blunt ; dorsum 

 sinuate, slightly convex in the middle ; cell 

 short, less than half length of wing; all 

 the veins distinct, wide apart from one 

 another ; vein 3 from well before lower apex 

 of cell, vein 4 from apex; vein 5 at base 

 midway between bases of 4 and 6 ; 6 and 7 

 from upper apex of cell, veins 8 and 9 

 absent, 10 and 11 from apical half of sub- 

 costal, vein 12 terminates on costa nearly 

 opposite upper apex of cell, running nearly 

 parallel with vein 11 in its apical half. 

 Hind wing : ample, costa arched ; apex 

 rounded but well marked ; termen convex ; 

 tornus rounded ; dorsum slightly arched; cell very short; the veins 

 as in the fore wing, well separated ; vein 3 from well before, 4 from 

 lower apex of cell ; middle discocellular slightly shorter than lower : 

 vein 7 from apical half of subcostal ; vein 8 strongly curved in its 

 basal half, terminates at apex of wing : precostal area broad. 



A single form comes just within our limits in Northern 

 Baluchistan. 



