354 LYC.ENIDJE. 



720. Neolycaena sinensis, Alpheraty (Lycaena), Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 

 xvi, 1881, p. 383, pi. 14, fig. 7 ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 65, 

 pi. 26, fig. 166. 



" Male and female. Upperside : both wings fuscous brown ; cilia 

 interrupted with white. Underside : both wings greyish brown 

 with a very slender marginal line. Fore wing : with an interrupted 

 exterior series of markings composed of irregular white short 

 streaks. Hind wing : with the disc irregularly marked with white 

 lunules and short streaks and with a series of submarginal dots, 

 interiorly margined with white. 



" Male and female. Upperside : both wings blackish brown ; cilia 

 of the same colour, but spotted with white at the ends of the 

 veins, this only very narrowly so on the fore and more broadly 

 on the hind wing ; the cilia is similar on the underside. Under- 

 side : both wings of a greyish-brown tint, very much lighter (than 

 above). An extremely fine bordering line runs along the exterior 

 margin of both wings, sometimes very indistinct in the fore wing. 

 Fore wing : traversed at nearly three millimetres from the outer 

 margin by an interrupted series of white, irregular, small streaks 

 (lunules), with one whitish lunule placed above the first nervure 

 and placed more towards the interior of the wing. This last 

 (lunule) disappears entirely in some specimens. A small streak, 

 or rather a small whitish dot, is found generally in the discoidal 

 cell. Hind wing : faintly dusted with white scales near its first 

 half (the base of the wing). The disc is sprinkled with more or 

 less large lunules, concave towards the base, and generally shaded 

 with blackish interiorly, and also with some white streaks not far 

 from the base ; but the whole is so irregular and so different in 

 each individual specimen that a figure alone could give a sufficiently 

 exact idea of it. All along the exterior margin of both wings 

 there is a submargiual series of black dots, which are round and 

 bordered with white on their interior side. These dots are very 

 distinct on the hind wing, but on the fore wing they are more or 

 less obliterated, and sometimes they completely disappear. 



" The species appears to be thoroughly isolated in the genus 

 Lyccena and must take its place in the small group formed 

 by some very heterogeneous species : L. rhymnus, Eversmann, 

 L. tengstrcemi, Erschoff, and L. anthracias, Cristoph." (AlpJieraky, 

 as translated by de Niceville.) 



Exp. 3 " 1*2 inches." 



Hob. "Western China : Kuldja ; Baluchistan. 



As noted by de Niceville, the only record of the occurrence of 

 this form within our limits is a single specimen taken at Guuduk 

 in Baluchistan by the late Capt. Watson. 



