LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



SECTION L— NOTARTHRINUS. 



Diflfers from Lycsenopsis in eacli portion of the dorsal armature of the ancillary 

 appendages having the separate-jointed spine (as in Lycsena). In Lycsenopsis the 

 spine, when there is one, is merely a chitiuous process continuous with the base. 

 (Chapman.) 



LTCJINOPSIS VARDHANA. 

 Plate 619, figs. 1, ^ , la, ? , lb, ? . 



Polyommatus vardhana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 572, pi. 66, fig. 5, ^ . 



Cyaniris vardhana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 244. Butler, id. 1886, p. 367 ; id. Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 147. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 9-5 (1890). Mackinnon and 

 de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 379. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1900, 

 p. 442. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 318 (1907). 



Nolarthrinus vardhana, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 424 (text fig. of ancillary appendages). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale iridescent blue. Forewing with the costa and 

 outer margin broadly dusky black, the apical portion the broadest ; some grey 

 irrorations on the basal and lower portions of the wing ; a black bar at the end of the 

 cell, the space outside it palest, nearly white. Hindwing with the costa broadly pale 

 blackish, a black bar at the end of the cell, a dusky, suffused, narrow, outer marginal 

 band, the basal portion of the wing thickly irrorated with grey scales, the entire blue 

 colouring of the wing darker than it is in the forewing. Underside dull milky white, 

 some bright blue irrorations at base of forewing, and on the basal and abdominal 

 portions of the hindwing. Forewing with two black spots at the end of the cell, 

 sometimes touching each other ; two smaller, well separated spots beyond, at about 

 half distance to the apex of the wing, a row of three large post-discal spots in the three 

 lowest interspaces. Hindwing with a number of black dots ; two near the base, two 

 close together below, near the abdominal margin, one sub-costal near the apex, two in 

 the disc below, and two below these, on their inner side, in echelon. 



Female like the male, but the white space on the forewing is much more extensive, 

 and the dusky blackish edging to the hindwing broader, and some blackish, obscure 

 .spots on the outer margin. 



Expanse of wings, $ % ly'V inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Mackinnon records it from Mussuri, de Niceville from Simla, 

 Thundiani, Kumauu and Naini Tal ; it is in the B. M. from Murree, Kangra and 

 Kujiar. 



