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wing. This edging along the termen is sometimes even, sometimes 

 it widens from a slender anticiliary at and above the tornus to a 

 broad black patch at the apex of the wing. Hind wing : the ter- 

 minal black edging much narrower proportionately than in wet- 

 season specimens, most often reduced to a slender black anticiliary 

 line with a series of black spots on the inner side, bordering and 

 sometimes coalescing with the line. Underside : as in the wet- 

 season brood but the ground-colour paler, in some specimens in uch 

 paler, the markings on both fore and hind wings similar, with 

 frequently the terminal markings obsolescent, sometimes entirely 

 absent or only indicated anteriorly on each wing. Cilia whitish. 

 Antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen as in the wet-season speci- 

 mens. 2 Similar to the of the wet-season brood, but more 

 like the d" , with the light silveiy-blue suffusion very irregular, 

 but generally extended much further outwards from the base. 

 In a 5 from Poona, now, before me, the fore wing on the upper- 

 side has the basal half silvery blue, the outer half black ; on the 

 hind wing, however, the blue colour extends almost to the termen 

 which is only narrowly edged with diffuse dusky black. Under- 

 side: as in the 3 , the ground-colour slightly darker. Antennae, 

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



Exp. <$ $ 28-32 mm. (MO-1-23"). 



Hob. Throughout peninsular India from the outer ranges of the 

 Himalayas to Travancore ; Assam ; Upper and Lower Burma. 

 Mr. de Niceville does not record it from Burma, but I got it at 

 Pegu and also in the Ruby Mines district in Upper Burma. 



722. Zizera lysimon, Hiibner (Papilio), Eur. Schmett. i, 1798, pi. 10.% 

 tigs. 534, 636 ; Lang (Lycfena), Butt. Eur. 1884, p. Ill, pi. 24, 

 fiff. 3 (J $ ; Tnmen (Lyesena), South African Butt, li, 1887, p. 45 ; 

 de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 116, pi. 26, fig. 173 $ ; Davidson, 

 Bell Sf Aitken, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1896, p. 373. 



Polyommatus karsandra, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 505, pi. 31, 

 tig. 7 $ ; id (Zizera) Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 78, pi. 35, figs. 6, 6 rf ; 

 de N. (Zizera) Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 117. 



Zizera niora, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 506, pi. 47, fig. 2 ; de N. 

 Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 118. 



<S . Upperside : brown with a more or less dense suffusion of 

 violet. In some specimens the violet colour is more clearly appa- 

 rent in certain lights than in others and extends further outwards, 

 but to lesser degree in wet-season specimens than in those taken 

 in the dry weather or in exceptionally dry tracts of country. 

 Fore wing : terminal margin broadly dark brown. Hind wing : 

 costal and terminal margins broadly dark brown. In a few 

 specimens a subterminal series of round black spots is more or 

 less clearly apparent on the hind wing. Underside : grey. Fore 

 wing: a spot in middle of cell, a short, transverse, lunular 

 line on the discocellulars, and a transverse, anteriorly strongly 

 curved, discal series of eight spots jet-black, the discocellular lunule 



