138 LT.-COL. J. MALCOLM FAWCETT ON [Juiie 7, 



figured) ; a thin black streak at apex of cell, in a large cuneiform 

 white s[)ot, and opposite this spot another large cuneifoi'm white 

 spot, with its base on the centre of the line of oi'ange submarginal 

 lunules. 



This species difters from L. arlana Moore from the N.W. 

 Himalnyas in being smaller, and in the discal row of black spots 

 on the under side being minute, fewer in number, and obsolete, in 

 some specimens, in the hind wing ; and in the discal white spots 

 at the apex of cell of hind wing being larger. 



5. Lyc.exa piieretes Iliibner, var. rnAKis. (Plate IX. figs. 5 J , 

 5 a $ .) — 



Lyccena pheretes Iliibner, var. pharis Fawcett, Abstr. P. Z. S. 

 1904, No. 9, p. 8, June 14." 



Expanse 1 in. 



Habitat. Khamba Jong, Thibet, 15,000 ft. elevation, July. 



DESORirxiON. — JIale. Upper side dark purple-blue; fore wing 

 Avith a black mai-ginal line ; mai'gin of hind wing more broadly 

 black, especially at apex and costa ; cilia broadly white. Under 

 side : fore wing purple-grey, paling towards apex ; a blaol-: spot 

 linged with white at apex of cell ; a discal series of small black 

 spots ringed with white, varying in number ; in some specimens 

 only thi'ee, usually foui'. Plind wing pale brownish on the disk, 

 fading into pale greenish-ochi-eous at the mai-gin, with the follow- 

 ing pale ochreous spots : one in and extending beyond discoidal 

 cell, cuneiform ; a discal sei-ies of six beyond it, and an indistinct 

 one basally below the costa.. 



Female. Upper side dark fuscous, basally ii-i'orated with blue ; 

 under side as in male. 



This form dififers from the var. asiatica of Elwes in having 

 fewei- discal black spots on fore wing, and in the size and length 

 of the pale cellular spot on hind wing. 



6. Lyc.exa (Zizera) zera. (Plate IX. fig. 6.) 



Lyccena {Zizera) zera Fawcett, Abstr. P. Z. S. 1904, No. 9, p. 9, 

 June 14. 



Expanse 1 in. 11 lin. 



Habitat. Tounghoo, Burma, June. 



Description. — 2Iale. Upper side shining violet ; fore wing with 

 a pale spot at the apex of the discoidal cell ; a bi'oad fuscous 

 marginal band extending slightly up the nervules, but the inner 

 bordei' regular and bending inwai-ds on the costa. Hind wing 

 with the mai'ginal fuscous band bi'oad tit the apex, narrowing to 

 a black mai'ginal line, inside which ai'e placed five fuscous lunules ; 

 cilia bi'oadly white. Under side pale grey : fore wing with a 

 fuscous streak, ringed with white, defining apex of cell ; a discal 

 row of six fuscous spots ringed with white ; a row of mai-ginal 

 spots faintly defined inwardly by fuscous lunules. Hind wing : 

 discal row and a marginal seiies of fuscous spots as in fore wing ; 



