572 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [Nov. 3, 



end of the cell ; a transverse interrupted discal series of nine black 

 spots, a submarginal row of black dentate lunules bordered outwardly 

 with golden yellow, and a marginal row of small spots. 



Exp. 1| inch. 



Hab. Dras valley (between Tashgam and Korkitehoor), Ladak 

 (Capt.H.B. Hellard). 



Gen. nov. Niphanda. 



Palpi very long, porrect, extending much beyond the head, flat- 

 tened ; second joint fusiform, squamose ; third joint slender, naked, 

 slightly thickened vertically at the tip. Antennse (broken). Body 

 robust. Legs slender, minutely squamose. Wings broad, strong : 

 fore wing elongated, trigonal, costa arched ; hind margin extending 

 much beyond posterior wing ; exterior margin slightly convex towards 

 posterior angle, which is acute ; median vein with four branches, 

 the second and fourth arising at the extremity of the cell, the third 

 starting from the second near its extremity before the apex : hind 

 wing arched along anterior margin ; outer angle much rounded, ab- 

 dominal margin long and nearly straight, anal angle acute. 



Near to Chrysophanus. 



Niphanda tessellata. (Plate LXVI. fig. 6.) 



Upperside pale glossy blue : cilia white, streaked with brown : 

 fore wing with a broad dusky black band along the costa and exte- 

 rior margin ; a patch below the apex, a discocellular spot, and a 

 lower discal spot also black ; a short white streak at posterior angle : 

 hind wing broadly dusky black along anterior margin ; the exterior 

 margin with a series of black spots bordered with bluish white and 

 an inner dusky line. 



Underside white : fore wing with an irregular basal patch, a 

 quadrate discocellular spot, and an interrupted transverse discal 

 series of quadrate spots dark blackish brown ; a suffused streak 

 along the costa, a streak bordering tbe upper portion of discal spots, 

 and a series of spots with inner bordered line on exterior margin pale 

 brown, the penultimate posterior spot being large, prominent, and 

 nearly black : hind wing with irregular pale-bordered basal marks, a 

 contiguous transverse series of four quadrate spots, two spots beyond 

 on middle of anterior margin, and a series of spots on exterior mar- 

 gin blackish brown, the basal and anal spots being most prominent ; 

 the basal interspaces, irregular streaks from abdominal margin, and 

 lunules to exterior spots pale brown. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



Hab. Penang. In Coll. Lieut. H. Roberts, R.A. 



POLYOMMATUS VARDHANA. (Plate LXVI. fig. 5.) 



Male and female. Upperside greyish blue, with a pinkish gloss ; 

 veins exteriorly and marginal line black ; a narrow black discocellular 

 streak very prominent on fore wing ; a broad band of dark bluish 

 purple along anterior and exterior margins of fore wing and anterior 

 margin of hind wing : cilia white alternating with black, on fore wing. 



