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



bluish purple ; both wings with a distinct black pale-bordered disco- 

 cellular spot and a transverse discal row of pale bluish white spots. 

 Female dark purplish brown, glossed with greenish blue ; discocel- 

 lular spot larger and very prominent, discal spots whiter ; cilia 

 white, with inner black line on fore wing and black dentate spots on 

 hind wing. 



Underside. Male : fore wing pale grey, with indistinct pale- 

 bordered discocellular spot and a transverse discal row of blackish 

 spots : hind wing white, the base powdered with metallic blue ; a 

 broad irregular discal pale brown baud enclosing a discocellular and 

 two upper white patches. Female : fore wing pale fawn-colour ; 

 spots prominent ; a blackish streak outside the discal spots ; irre- 

 gular discal band on hind wing tinged with yellow. 



Exp. 1 inch. 



Hab. Rajdiangan Pas?, Sursungar and Stakpila Passes, and Baitul, 

 Cashmere {Capt. H. B. Hellard). 



Polyommatus samudra. (Plate LXVII. fig. 2.) 



Male. Upperside pale lavender-blue, exterior margins and end 

 of veins of both wings and anterior border of hind wing slightly 

 fuliginous ; costal edge white ; cilia white, slightly brown at end of 

 veins ; abdominal margin greyish white ; antennae black, ringed with 

 white. Underside greyish white, slightly greenish at base of hind 

 wings : fore wing with a discal transverse recurved row of black 

 spots, each with a white border ; a narrow white-bordered black 

 streak at end of the cell, and a submarginal series of blackish 

 lunules : hind wing with a series of eight small white-bordered black 

 spots, two being near anterior margin towards the base, five on the 

 disk, and one on abdominal margin ; a pale-bordered short black 

 streak at end and a dot within the cell ; a submarginal series 

 of narrow black lunules with inner white borders and a mar- 

 ginal row of small metallic silvery spots which are slightly bordered 

 within with red. 



Female differs above in having the wings anteriorly and the veins 

 broadly fuliginous, and beneath in the partial absence of the discal 

 series of spots on the hind wing. 



Exp. c? H, S If inch. 



Hab. Gol and Skardo, Baltistan (Capt. H. B. Hellard). 



LycjENA ardates. (Plate LXVII. fig. 1.) 



Male. Upperside bluish purple ; exterior marginal line and a 

 short tail on hind wing black ; cilia greyish, with dark inner line. 



Underside dark fawn-colour : fore wing with two pale-bordered 

 brown spots within and one below the cell, an irregular discal series, 

 and a submarginal row of dentate lunules : hind wing with an irre- 

 gular subbasal and discal pale- bordered brown band, a submarginal 

 row of dentate lunules and contiguous marginal spots, a prominent 

 subanal rouud black spot speckled with metallic green scales. 



Exp. 1 inch. 



Hab. Pari and Pooneh, Cashmere (Capt. H. B. Hellard). 



