504 MR. F. MOORE ON DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA [June 13, 
carpeted pasture-lands on the mountain-sides in Kunawur, at 11,000 
to 12,000 feet—those smiling “alps”? where the villagers drive their 
herds when the early summer has set in, and the melting snow leaves 
this gay carpet of flowers on spots which for many months had re- 
mained hidden beneath a thick snowy mantle. 
102. PoryoMMATUS NAzIRA, n. sp. (Pl. XXXI. fig. 4.) 
Upperside satin-brown ; fore wing with a black spot closing the 
discoidal cell; both wings with a marginal series of blackish dots, 
bordered inwardly with a submarginal row of deep-red lunules. 
Underside purplish cream-colour; both wings with a submarginal 
red band, bordered exteriorly with black dots, internally with blackish 
lunules, and margined on both sides with white lunules ; fore wing 
with a spot closing the cell, five and a geminated sixth irregularly 
across the disk; and hind wing with eight spots also irregularly 
across the disk, three basal and one closing the cell black, each en- 
circled with white ; a dash of white longitudinally on the disk o 
hind wing. Cilia broad, white, with black spots. . 
Expanse | inch. 
Hab, Kunawur. 
103. PoLYOMMATUS ARIANA, n. sp. (PI. XXXI. fig. 2.) 
Male. Upperside brilliant blue; anterior margin of hind wing 
black, inner margin whitish ; cilia broad, white. Underside purple- 
grey, suffused with metallic greenish grey at base of hind wing ; fore 
wing with a small spot within discoidal cell, another closing the cell, 
a submarginal discal series of six spots (the posterior, sixth, gemi- 
nated), black, each encircled with white ; a marginal series of ill- 
defined double whitish spots, the posterior having slight dark 
centres ; hind wing with two basal and a submarginal discal series 
of seven black spots encircled with white ; a marginal row of whitish 
spots, each centred exteriorly with a dark and interiorly with a red- 
dish spot ; a triangular spot in centre of the wing, and a streak from 
middle of exterior margin, whitish. Body white. 
Female duller lilac-blue, with the exterior margin of both wings 
brownish. Underside as in male. 
Expanse of ¢ 14 inch, 9 13 inch. 
Hab. Kunawur. 
An abundant species, frequenting pasture- and meadow-land in 
the summer months, at altitudes of 8000 to 10,000 feet, lighting on 
the gentians which stud the green turf. 
104. Potyommatus CHANDALA, n. sp. (PI. XXXI. fig. 5.) 
Male dull silvery blue, with purplish-brown exterior margins. 
Underside pale grey, with a spot within discoidal cell, a discocel- 
lular streak, a transverse discal linear series of six clear-wiite-en- 
circled black spots, between which and exterior margin a series of 
indistinct pale-bordered lunules ; hind wing with basal and discal 
