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appear only to be known from Staudinger’s original locality, Malatia, Mesopo- 
tamia. LeCerf’s specimen, however, is probably referable to karinda. 
This form was taken in company with the two next mentioned and other 
species of Lyczena at flowers in glades and waste ground by a stream. 
L. (Polyommatus) peilei, Bethune-Baker Plate, Fig. 15:16; 
Described by G. T. Bethune-Baker, in the Entomolgist’s Record Vol. 
XXXIII, pp. 63-64, 1921. 
«* An extraordinary and beautiful new’ Lycenid belonging to the dama 
section of the genus Polyommatus. 
&@ Both wings yellowish tawny colour (the exact colour is very difficult to 
describe, at first sight it looks almost orange), the prevailing tone is deep 
yellowish. Primaries with an abundant supply of greyish androconial hairs 
and small scales, which give the wing an unusual aspect. The secondaries are 
almost free of these scales except in the basal area. Fringes grey, the basal 
half being darker than the terminal portion. 
Underside.—Both wings cream colour with a slight pinkish tinge, with 
blackish spots palely encircled. Primaries with a dark crescent closing the 
cell, a postmedian line of six spots, the lowest one being double, those in the 
radial area are excurved, the fourth and fifth spots recede sharply basewards, 
the sixth (double spot) is shifted outwards. 
Secondaries, with all the spots very small and inclined to obsolescence, 
but the two subcostal ones, viz., that near the base and that half-way 
along the costa, always present and definite though small, the spots in the 
postmedian row are reduced to mere points and are often absent, there is a 
trace of a submarginal row of dashes of the ground-colour edged with a tone 
of cream colour paler than the ground. 
Q Pale brown colour, otherwise like the male on the underside. 
Expanse.— @ 38-42, Q 38 mm. 
Habitat.—Karind Gerge (N. W. Persia), 6,000 ft. July (H. D. Peile). 
Types in the British Museum, six ¢ ¢ and one Q. (B. M.. Types, Neo: 
Rh. 179 #; 180 9, 17th July 1918, Karind Gorge, S co-types. ) 
“‘The Karind Gorge is just over the Persian frontier. 
It is I think the most extraordinary Palearctic species of the true 
Lycenine that 1 know, its colour separates it from everything, but the under- 
side pattern shows it to be a near ally of that beautiful species that Staudin- 
ger called dama, with which indeed it was flying when Lt.-Col. Peile captured 
it. The androconial scales also connect it closely with the dolus group.” 
Taken at flowers in glades, 14th to 17th July 1918. None seen 12th August. 
The male is easily recognized on the wing: but the underside in both sexes 
makes them readily mistaken, when settled, for the races of dama and damone 
with which they are found, 
L. (Polyommatus) damone, subsp. damalis, Riley. A: & M.N.H. 
Vol. 8, p. 597. See Plate, Figs 13-14. © 
35 &,17 Q of which a series of 12 pairs are now in the National 
collection, 
Taken at same localities—Harir and Karind Gorge—as dama from 13th 
July to 12th August 1918, and distinguished from that in the field chiefly 
by being smaller and having generally more conspieuous spots on the 
underside ; the females being more uniformly brown above. As with dama 
the females average slightly smaller than the males. More robust and 
the males more decidedly blue than damonides, Stgr. Capt. Riley notes as 
follows :— 
“Nearest the var. verzes, Staud, in colour, and in that the hindwing 
underside is entirely devoid of any trace of the longitudinal white stripe ; 
