1865.] FROM THE NORTH-WEST HIMALAYAS. 505 
series of pale brown, whitish-encircled spots, and a marginal row of 
indistinct pale-bordered lunules: cilia purplish brown. 
Expanse | inch. 
Hab, Lower Himalayas and plains of N.W. India. 
This is a generally distributed species, affecting both the plains 
and the Lower Himalayan valleys, occasionally ascending the moun- 
tain slopes to 6000 feet altitude. I have taken it in the later au- 
tumn months in Oudh, the Punjab, and Lower Himalayas. 
105. Potyommatus vicrama, n. sp. (Pl. XXXI. fig. 6.) 
Male dull greyish blue; exterior margins brown; cilia broad, 
white, with brownish spots. Underside greyish cream-colour, exte- 
rior margins defined by a black line : fore wing with a central dis- 
coidal spot, another closing the cell; a series of spots recurving 
transversely from costa to posterior margin and a submarginal row 
of spots black, each encircled with white: hind wing with thirteen 
white-encircled black spots, and a marginal double row of red-inter- 
spaced black lunules : cilia as above. 
Female bluish-purple brown ; marked as in male. 
Expanse of $14 inch, 2 14 inch. 
Hab. Kunawur; Tibet. 
An uncommon species ; to be seen flitting from flower to flower 
on moist. meadow-land fed by streams from melting snow-beds. 
Cheeni in Middle Kunawur, and the Alps above the Chinese village 
of Shipkee in Tibet, are the localities ; May, June, and July the 
season. 
106. PoLyoMMATUS KARSANDRA, 0. sp. (Pl. XXXI. fig. 7.) 
Upperside purple-brown. Underside greyish brown, exterior mar- 
gins defined by a brown line: fore wing with a spot within discoidal 
cell, a discocellular streak, a spot above it, and a transverse discal 
series of six spots black, each encircled with white ; a marginal and 
submarginal row of pale brown, white-bordered lunules : hind wing 
with a series of twelve black spots, and a pale discocellular streak, 
encircled with white ; a marginal row of pale brown, whitish-encircled 
spots, and a submarginal row of whitish lunules: cilia greyish 
brown. , a; 
Expanse +4 inch. 
Hob. Platte of N.W. India. 
A common species in the plains, from Oudh to the Punjab. 
107. Lyc“na zena, n. sp. (Pl. XXXI. fig. 9.) 
Upperside pale purple-brown ; hind wing with a small brown spot 
near anal angle of exterior margin. Underside pale grey, exterior 
margins defined by a brown line: fore wing with a black dot on 
costa, one-third from the apex ; a discocellular spot, an interrupted 
transverse discal band, and a submarginal lunulated line pale brown, 
each with whitish borders: hind wing with three subbasal spots, 
another on anterior margin, and two from anal angle black, encircled 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1865, No. XXXIII. 
