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LYCJINOPSIS TRANSPECTUS. 



Plate 620, figs. 1, <J, la, 5, lb, ^ (Wet-season Brood), Ic, ^ , Id, ? le, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



Polyommalus transpectus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Sec. 1879, p. 139. 



Cyaniris transpectus, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 70, pi. i. figs. 6 (J, 6a, 9 ; id. 



Butt, of India, iii. p. 99, pi. 26, fig. 170 (Wet-season form), 171 $ (Dry-season form) (1890). 



Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 622. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 290. Bingham, 



Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 322 (Woodcut $ fig.) pi. 19, fig. 126 $ (1907). 

 Lijcsenojpsis transpedus, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 432. 

 Cyaniris latimargo, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 523, pi. 48, fig. 9, ^ ? ; de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, iii. p. 100 (1890). 



AVet-season Brood {= latimargo). Figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, $. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark lilacine blue. Forewing, costa with a thin black 

 band ; outer marginal band also black, deep at the apex, rather broad and even on the 

 outer margin ; a small lower discal white patch. Hindwing with a similarly broad and 

 even black band on the outer margin, but this band is not always entire, sometimes it 

 consists of a dentated thin band closely attached to a narrow marginal band. Under- 

 side greyish-white with a very faint blue tinge, markings brown. Forewing with a 

 line at the end of the cell ; a post-discal row of short lines more or less in echelon, 

 the uppermost one more inwards than the others, a sub-terminal line of lunules, and 

 an anticiliary row of black short linear marks. Hindwing with two black sub-basal 

 spots ; a linear mark at the end of the cell ; a large black costal spot near the apex, 

 being the uppermost end of an outwardly curved rather disjointed series of brown 

 marks, the second from the margin more outwards than the others ; a sub-terminal 

 rather acutely dentated line, and an anticiliary row of black spots. Cilia grey on 

 forewing, with white edgings on the hindwings. 



Female. Upperside dark brownish-black ; in some examples almost pure black. 

 Forewing with a large white patch with suffused edges in the disc, nearly always 

 extended hindwards to the lower margin in its middle, and often continued down the 

 hindwing, sometimes to its centre ; the apical and outer portions darker than the rest 

 of the wings ; cilia as in the male. Underside, like the male, but the markings more 

 pronounced, and in some specimens the interior markings of the hindwing are all 

 blackish. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1^^ inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Ic, $, Id, ?, le, ?). 



Male. Upperside of a paler colour than in the other form. Foreiving without 

 the costal black band, the outer marginal band similar, the white in the disc more 



