from North-rvest India. 149 



The male varies in colour from silver-grey with a lilac 

 gloss to smoky grey with a faint bluish gloss ; the primaries 

 have a blackish external border, considerably narrower than 

 in Z. diluta and more sharply defined internally ; the secon- 

 daries have the costal half brownish ; a marginal series of 

 blackish spots ; the under surface scarcely differs from that of 

 Z. maha, excepting that the discal series of black spots on the 

 primaries forms a more or less pronounced angle below the 

 second median branch. 



This form is intermediate in character between Z. ma/ia and 

 Z. diluta excepting in the angulation of the discal series of 

 spots on the under surface ; it may possibly be a hybrid. We 

 possess six examples. 



54. Zizera diluta. 



Lyccena diluta, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. ii. p. 280. n. 353, pi. xxxv. 

 'figs. 12,13. 



^ . Aklior, 22nd April ; ? . Carapbellpore, 4th, 5th, and 

 J)th May ; c? • Hassan Abdal, 27th June, 18th July ; Thun- 

 (liani, 21st August j ($ ?. 29th August; ?. Nandar, 25th 

 September, 1886. 



Var. Wings below greyer ; black spots with narrower 

 white margins. 



S ? . Hassan Abdal, 9th Alay ; ^ . Thundiani, 29th 



August, 1886. 



65. Cupido ariana. 



Polyommatus ariana, Moore, Proc. Zool See. 1865, p. 504. n. 103, 

 pi. xxxi. fig. 2. 



(^. Thundiani, 19th August ; cJ ? (in coitu), 29th August, 

 10th September; ? . 15th and 24th September, 1886. 



All the specimens with the exception of one taken on the 

 19th August are rather small for the species ; the female 

 appears to vary almost as much as in C. icarus of Europe. 



J\Jajor Yerbury says that this species is "common at 

 Alurree in August and September, and fairly common at 

 Thundiani in the same months." 



Major Yerbury brought home wath him specimens of 

 Cupido nazira taken at Thundiani on the 29th August, the 

 4th and 11th September, 1886. 



56. Chrysophanus timeu^. 

 PapUio timeus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. clxxxvi. E, F (1779). 



? . Thundiani, 20th August ; ^ . 24th August and 20th 

 September, 1886. 



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