1880.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM CANDAHAR. 407 



the cell ; secondaries with brownish costal border ; two black spots, 

 the inner one bifid, above the tail, succeeded by a slender white 

 line ; tail black tipped with white. Wings below very pale whity- 

 brown, with a white-bordered pale brown elongated spot at the end 

 of each cell, followed by a discal series of similar spots, interrupted 

 in the secondaries ; a marginal series of white and brown ocelloid 

 spots of the usual form : secondaries with three black spots above 

 the tail at anal angle, the two outer ones large, zoned with orange 

 and varied with metallic golden green, the outermost spot extremely 

 small ; two subcostal black spots and a third within the cell : body 

 below white. Expanse of wings 11 1 lines. 



? . Wings above pale brown, with a slender black marginal line 

 followed by a brown line ; fringe white ; primaries washed towards 

 base of interno-median area with silvery blue; secondaries with a 

 series of six ocelloid spots close to outer margin — the first indistinct, 

 the first four brown with white borders, the fifth large, black, with 

 orange inner and white outer border, the sixth bifid, black with 

 bluish inner and white outer border ; tail black, tipped with white ; 

 body browner than in the male ; under surface slightly browner than 

 in the male ; otherwise the same. Expanse of wings 10 lines. 



" Rare in May, very common in June, not so variable in size as 

 L.bcBticus, and much smaller." 



Allied to L. cnejus, but constantly smaller and of an entirely 

 different colour, the upper surface of the male being altogether blue 

 and the under surface whiter ; the female is also paler ; the pattern 

 of the under surface is very like that of L. gulba as figured by 

 Lederer. Mr. Moore has a series of L. contractu from Kutch. 



11. Lyc.«na persica (no. 5). 



Lyccena icarus, \ar. persica, Bienert, Lep. Ergeb. p. 29 (1870). 



Allied to but distinct from L. icarus ; the fringe shorter ; the 

 secondaries more produced at apex : the male below chalky white, 

 all the black spots extremely small, the marginal ocelloid spots 

 scarcely visible, those of the primaries showing no trace of orange, 

 those of the secondaries with small pale orange lunules along their 

 inner margins ; the female with greyish costal border on the upper 

 surface of the primaries and with the greater part of the wing behind 

 this washed with blue, the secondaries broadly washed with blue in 

 the same manner ; the orange submarginal spots well separated on 

 both primaries and secondaries. The wings below whity-brown with 

 all the black spots smaller, the primaries with two additional spots 

 towards the base ; the orange on the submarginal spots very pale and 

 restricted : both sexes with very little blue or green at the base of 

 the wings below. Expanse of wings, cJ 1 inch 2 lines, $ 1 inch 

 4 lines. 



" Abundant in April, May, and June." 



12, Lycjina bracteata sp.n. (no. 18). (Plate XXXIX. fig. 4.) 



cJ . Allied to L. argus, with which it agrees on the upper surface : 

 below considerably paler, with all the black spots much smaller and 



