Mesopotaviia and jS^. W. Persia. 597 



whicli Sticliel (in Seitz, ^Nfacrolep. Pal. i. p. 208) appears to 

 be responsible, -with regard to the Japanese forms of c-album. 

 Fentoni, Butler^ is not a sjnonym of hamigera, Butler ; it 

 is an older name than luniffera, Butler, for the form witii 

 tlie light brown underside. Liuiiyera was Inised on a 

 specimen of this form with slightly narrower forewings and 

 more melanic upperside — an extreme of the form, in fact. 



Lycaenidae. 



12. Lyccena daina karixda, subsp. n. 



7 c?, 7' ? , 14.7.18.-9. 9. 18, Harir, Karind, and Karind 

 Gorge, N.W. Persia. 



Diffeis from L. diima, Stand. (Iris, iv. p. 234), in that the 

 discal series of spots on the underside of hindwing is always 

 complete, although the spots composing it are minute. The 

 marginal and submarginal inarkings also are more fully 

 developed. In the female the veins on the upperside are 

 conspicuously darker. 



Le Cerf (Ann. d'Hist. Nat. ii. (2) p. 69) records one 

 female, under the name dama, from Deh-Tchechma, 

 Arabistan Persia. This should probably be referred to 

 L. dama karinda, typical damn being only known from 

 Malatia. 



B.M. types No. Rh. 175, S ; 1^6, ?, 16. 7. 18, Karind 

 Gorge. 



13. Lyccena damune damalis, subsp. n. 



12 d^, 12 ? , Karind Gorge and Harir, 13. 7. 18-9. 8. 18. 



Nearest the var. xerxes, Stand., in colour and in that the 

 hindwing underside is entirely devoid of any trace of the 

 longitudinal white stripe, but differs constantly in its much 

 larger size (30 mm, and more as against 23-24 mm. in 

 oeerxes\ and in being entirely devoid of any trace of basal 

 green scaling on the underside of both wings. The upperside 

 coloration of the male is perhaps a shade paler and brighter 

 than in typical xerxts, and the hind-marginal orange luuules 

 in the female more pronounced. The general coloration of 

 the underside in the male is lighter, more greyish, less 

 brown than in xerxes ; in the female of a more yellowish 

 brown. The discoidal spot on the forewings is anteriorly 

 more acute than in any xerxes examined, 



B.M. types No. Rh.'l77, (J, 13. 7. 18 ; 178, ? , 16. 7. 18, 

 Karind Gorge. 



