358 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST, SOCIETY, Vol. 
LYCAENID. 
Key to the forms of Lycenine of Mesopotamia. 
A. Hindwing : Without tail. 
a. Upperside, brown without blue ; 
a complete subterminal series of 
black spots and orange lunules. 
Underside forewing a _ basal 
blackspot , .Lycena astrarche. 
b. Upperside, 3 blue. Q “brown. 
a‘. Qwith more or less blue; an 
incomplete subterminal series 
of black spots and orange lu- 
nules. Underside forewing no 
basal spots .. ..D. icarus. 
b.. @sky-blue. Black spots on 
underside conspicuous .L. bellargus. 
c. @ satiny blue; ¢ brown, 
veins darker; Underside 
cream, spots minute ..L. dama karinda 
d'. Smaller, Exp. 30mm. @ dark 
brown. Underside spots larger.L. damone damalis. 
c. Upperside, brown, underside 
hindwing, a row of 3 subtornal 
jewelled black, orange circled 
spots ne 4S .Chilades trochilus. 
d. <o violet blue and brown above. 
© brown. 
a‘ Underside. Hindwing, two 
subcostal and another basal 
prominent black spots . -Chilades galba. 
b' Underside f.w. with many jet 
black spots: no  jewelled 
spots, a black spot in middle 
of cellofforewing .. . .Zizera karsandra. 
c’ Underside, black spots minute. 
No jewelled spots, no spot in 
middle of cell of forewing ..Zizera otis. 
e. @ yellowish tawny; Q pale 
brown a DL. peilet. 
B. Hindwing: with a short filament- 
ous tail. 
a Forewing: veins 11 and 12 
anastomosed. Underside white 
spotted with black or brown: a 
subterminal series of spots, some ; 
with shining metallic scales ..Tarucus theophrastus. 
6 Forewing, veins 11 and 12 not 
anastomosed, but an oblique 
short bar between them near 
base. Underside banded with 
pale grey or brown be .Lampides boeticus. 
C. Upperside more or less copper- red 
a with dark outer border and spots.Heodes phleas. 
6 more yellow-gold in colour ; fila- 
mentous tail to n. w. ..H. thersamon kurdistanica. 
AXVILI. 
