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terminal portions of interspaces 2 and 3, sometimes of 4 and 5 

 also, that lie between postdiscal series of lunules arid the outer 

 edge of the subtenninal row of spots ochraceous yellow, the spots 

 themselves in interspaces 2 and 3 much larger than the others. 

 Antennas black, the shafts speckled as usual with white ; head, 

 thorax and abdomen brown, with a pale purplish flush on the 

 thorax and abdomen in fresh specimens ; beneath : palpi, thorax 

 and abdomen white or grey. . Upperside : in the commonest 

 form dark greyish-blue. Fore wing : the costa, apex and termen 

 very broadly fuscous-black, with an obscure black anticiliary line 

 as in the c? . Hind wing : as in the <$ but the costal dusky 

 brownish- black edging much broader, always more or less continued 

 along the termen ; the subterminal rows of spots often nearly 

 complete to apex, those in interspaces 2 and 3 very large and 

 crowned inwardly with ochraceous yellow, in some specimens more 

 or less obsolescent. Specimens of the $ with the ground-colour on 

 the upperside entirely brown and the terminal markings on the 

 hind wing indistinct are not uncommon. Underside : as in the c? , 

 the markings on the whole more distinct. Antennae, head, thorax 

 and abdomen as in the tf , but without the purplish flush seen on 

 some specimens of the latter. 



Exp. 6 $ 23-30 mm. (p-92-1-17"). 



Hab. The Holarctic Region. Within our limits almost through- 

 out India; Ceylon; Assam; Burma; Tenasserim ; extending 

 through the Malayan Subregion to Australia. 



Specimens from very dry localities in Upper Burma and from 

 Great Nicobar Island are remarkably small and pale, with the 

 markings on the underside, especially the subtornal ochraceous 

 yellow patch, more or less obsolescent. 



Larva. " Pale green with a darker dorsal stripe, dark lateral 

 streaks, and light brown and w-hite spots. Feeds on trefoil and 

 other Leguminosa}." (Lang.) 



Pupa. " Longer and slenderer than in Cyaniris, being nearly 

 four times longer than broad, the abdomen but slightly more ele- 

 vated than the thorax, and the whole body covered with long 

 distant hairs, by which they may be readily distinguished ; in colour 

 they resemble the caterpillar, or are darker and spotted with 

 black." (Seudder.} 



736. Everes potanini, AlpUraky (Lycaena), Rom. Mem. v, 1889, p. 104, 

 pi. 6, fig. 4 rf ; Leech. Butt. China, 1893-1894, p. 332, pi. 81, 

 tig. 2 rf. 



Everes umbriel, Doherty, J. A. S. B. 1889, p. 433, pi. 23, fig. 1 ; 

 de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 141. 



c? $ . Upperside : deep brownish-black, markings of the under- 

 side faintly apparent through transparency. Fore wing : an 

 obscure slender anticiliary line darker than the ground-colour ; 

 cilia, except at and just above the tornus, brown along the base, 

 white outw : ardly ; at tornal area pure white with a little brown at 

 apex of vein 1. Hind wing : a subterminal series of black spots, 



