208 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



extensive. Hindwing with the outer marginal band narrower, and suflfused hindwards, 

 sometimes containing a wlaitisli dentated line. Underside whiter, the markings 

 similarly disposed, but faint and reduced. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing brownish-black, the whole of the disc pure 

 white, leaving a third of the base pale blackish ; the costa and outer margins broadly 

 black ; a black streak at the end of the cell, touching the costal band. Hindwing with 

 all the interior portion pure white ; some blackish suffusion on the basal portion, and 

 paler suffusion on the abdominal marginal space ; a broad inwardly suffused pale 

 blackish marginal band, containing a sub-marginal series of whitish lunules. Under- 

 side as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ^ ly% inches. 



Habitat.— Sikkim, Assam, Burma. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Elwes from the Karen Hills ; we have it from Sikkim, 

 the Khasia Hills and Bhutan ; and it is in the B. M. also from Tenasserim. 



LTCJINOPSIS PUSPA. 



Plate 620, figs. 2, $ ,1a., 5 , 2b, 5 (Wet-season Brood), 2c, $ , 2d, $ , 2e, $ (Dry-season Brood). 



Polyommatus puspa, Horsfield, Crtt. Lep. E.I.C. p. 67 (1828). 



Cyaniris puspa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 245. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, 



p. 67, pi. i. fig. 5a, 9. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 335. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. 



Bengal, 1888, p. 356. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 100 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1892, p. 622. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 294. Davidson, Bell and Aitkeu, .Tourn. Bo. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 373 (life history). Watson, id. 1897, p. 658. Mackinnon and 



de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 377. Aitken and Comber, id. 1903, p. 47. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. 



India, Butt. ii. p. 323, pi. 19, fig. 127, <J (1907). 

 Lycsena puspa, var. Felder, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xviii. p. 282 (1868). 

 Lycsenopsis puspa, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 437 (text fig. 71). 

 Polyommatus lavendularis, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 341. 

 Cyaniris lavendularis, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 75, pi. 34, figs. 6, 6a, <? , 7, 9 (1881). 

 Cyaniris Iambi, Distant and Pryer, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1882, p. 266. Distant, Rhop. JIalayana, 



p. 211, pi. 21, fig. 22, <J (1884). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, $, 2a, ?, 2b, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violaceous-blue, with brilliant reflections in certain 

 lights. Forewing with the costal line black ; a broad outer marginal black band, 

 broadest at the apex. Hindwing with a very broad black costal band, continued in a 

 somewhat narrower form on the outer margin, narrowing hindwards. Underside 

 greyish-white, very slightly tinged with blue ; markings pale brown. Forewing with 

 a lunular mark at the end of the cell ; a discal whorl of spots, the upper one nearly 

 round and inwards, the others in a row, the third outwardly oblique, the fifth also 



