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has a rather wider border, and the discal streak has a pale patch 
in the blue like puspa. If it must have a name, it might be 
argiolus var. puspargiolus. 
The other form equally close to sikkima flies with Bothrinia 
chennellii, so far as I can judge, and has been sent to me as that 
species. It has a still broader border, and would certainly not 
suggest itself as a form of argiolus until the ancillary appendages 
had been examined. This form might be called bothrinoides. 
The first spot beneath the upper wing being thrown inwards (as 
in argiolus) easily distinguishes it from chennellir. 
There is a further variety of argiolus that I have called albo- 
ceruleoides; it is rather further from stkkima than the two 
forms ( puspars giolus and bothrinoides) just noticed, but nearest to 
puspargiolus in having a whitish patch in the blue of both Wings ; 
the black border is, Tarorere, less extensive. There is a specimen 
(or more) of this in the B.M. Collection labelled albo-ccer uleus, but 
it really is nearer to marginata; and I have specimens of unknown 
origin of marginata and albocewruleoides, the pinning and setting 
of which suggest that they were taken together. One can hardly 
avoid believing that there are probably races of argiolus not yet 
observed that approach other species of Lycwnopsis in appearance. 
There is a further form, in which the discal line is evident and 
the black border narrower, but with distinct traces of lunules on 
the margin of the hind wing and very pale in the blue colour. 
There are specimens in the British Museum from Burmah, and I 
have seen others labelled gynteana, without locality ; but for its 
larger size, this is not very unlike victoria, especially in the fading 
of the blue into a greyish tone, in which it has not gone far, but 
still has moved in that direction. 
There is still Lycenopsis victoria Sev., which I found to my 
astonishment to be also a race of argiolus. The conclusion can 
hardly be resisted that it also has adopted a resemblance to some 
other Lycenid, but I am not prepared to suggest what this 
may be. : 
There are sundry other Lycenopsids that suggest that they 
have local races to accord with other species, but I know too little 
of these to be able to say more than that such conditions seem 
probable. In most of these cases, however, the explanation 
of simple geographical variation is at least quite as probable, as in 
the case of LZ. eyanescens, the very different looking form that 
puspa assumes in the Nicobars. 
17. albidisca Moore, P. Z.S. 1883, p. 524, pl. xlviii. fig. 7. 
The appendages show this species to be related to marginata as 
closely as the general appearance of the imagines might lead one 
to suspect. 
The spines of the dorsal processes are less pronounced, the 
accessory processes on their ventral side are at least equally 
distinct; the shoulder of the spinous process of the clasp, so usually 
