420 LYC^NIDJE. 



darker purple with a darker blue suffusion in certain lights. 

 Fore wiog : terminal margin very broadly shaded with brown so 

 that the wing has, when looked at vertically from above, the 

 appearance of a broad brown terminal band. Hind wing : the 

 discocellulars marked by a transverse short black bar. Otherwise 

 as in typical theoplirastus. $ . Only differs from $ theophrastus 

 on the upperside, where the colour of both fore and hind wings is 

 uniform brown ; the discal white markings on both wings 

 obsolescent. 



Exp. d 25-32 mm. (1 -00-1 -28"). 



Hob. The N.W. Himalyas to Kumaon ; Punjab : Campbellpore, 

 Thundiani, Murree ; Bengal : Malda. 



I agree with the late Mr. de Niceville that breeding experiments 

 will probably prove that this form belongs merely to the dark 

 wet-season brood of ordinary tlieophrastus. 



764. Tarucus plinius, Fabr. (Hesperia), Ent. Syst. iii, 1793, p. 284; 

 Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 82, pi. 3(5, fig. 4 ; de N. Butt. 2nd. 

 ii, 1890, p. 194. 



This form closely resembles in both sexes on the upperside 

 T. iheophrastus, but the character and disposition of the markings 

 on the underside are completely different. 



tf . Upperside : dark violet with, in certain lights, a rich blue 

 suffusion. Pore wing : no discocellular black spot so conspicuous 

 in T. tlieoplirastus ; terminal margin with a narrow edging of 

 fuscous black, widest at the apex, gradually decreasing to the 

 tornus, followed by an inconspicuous anticiliary jet-black line. 

 Hind wing : costal margin slightly but broadly shaded with 

 fuscous, which is continued as a slender anticiliary black line to 

 the tornus. Underside : white. Fore wing : with the following 

 brownish- black markings : an irregular edging along the costa to 

 near the apex from which extends downwards a subbasal band, 

 broadened across the cell and below it ; an irregular band that 

 extends along the discocellulars and below them to interspace 1 

 where it ends in a point ; an upper discal curved band of more 

 even width but dislocated below vein 4, the lower portion of it 

 shifted inwards forms a large quadrate spot in interspace 3, below 

 vein 3 the band is continued downwards by two small inconspicuous 

 spots, beyond this is a very short acutely-pointed comma-shaped 

 mark ; a very regular evenly curved complete transverse lunular 

 line, a transverse series of subterminal spots and an anticiliary 

 slender line. Close to the base of the wing extended obliquely 

 upwards and outwards from the dorsum is a triangular mark, the 

 edging of white colour left near the base forms above the apex of 

 this mark an acute angle; between the band that crosses the 

 middle of the cell and the transverse discocellular band is a more 

 or less slender, irregular, similarly-coloured line ; and between the 

 discocellular and upper discal bands another much shorter line 

 that extends from the costa downwards but does not reach vein 4, 

 this is slightly clavate anteriorly and posteriorly. Hind wing: 



