212 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



We have not seen a female ; the types are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Local race, prominens, nov. Female. Upperside. Forewing with the blue area 

 more extensive. Hindwing with the marginal spots much larger and blacker. Under- 

 side. Hindwing with all the markings much larger and more prominent, especially 

 the spot just beyond the middle of the costa, and the marginal round spots, which are 

 inwardly defined by a distinct narrow lunulated fuscous line ; the discal spots arranged 

 in a regular sinuous band. 



Expanse, 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Little Nicobars (de Niceville). 



LYCJINOPSIS HUEGELII. 

 Plate 621, figs. 3, <? , 3a, ? , 3b, $ (Wet-season Brood), 3c, ^, 3d, ? (Dry-season Brood). 

 Cijaniris huegelii, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 244. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 107 

 (1890). Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 380. Bingham, 

 Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 333, pi. 19, fig. 129, ^ (1907). 

 Lj/cxnopsis huegelii, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 444. 

 Lycaena argiolus, Kollar (nee Linnaeus), Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. (2), p. 423 (1848). 



"Wet-season Brood (Figs. 3, $, 3a, ?, 3b, $). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purplish-blue ; a black costal line on the forewing 

 and black outer marginal line on both wings ; cilia white, with slender black marks at 

 the ends of the veins. Underside pearly bluisb-white, markings pale brown. Forewing 

 with a slender line at the end of the cell ; a discal row of indistinct spots in the inter- 

 spaces 2 to 6. Hindwing with three sub-basal black spots, the upper one sub-costal, 

 the second in the middle, and the third close to the middle of the abdominal margin, 

 in a straight row ; a black sub- costal dot near the apex, another a little inwardly below 

 it, a third much nearer the margin, in the middle of the disc, and one between it and 

 the spot near the abdominal margin ; both wings with a sub-terminal band of lunulas 

 enclosing a complete row of small spots. 



Female. Upperside much paler than the male and duller in colour. Forewing 

 with rather broad, dull blackish costal and outer marginal band. Hindwing with a 

 very broad costal band of the same colour ; marginal line blackish, some anticiliary 

 black triangular spots ringed with whitish and edged inwardly by a blackish thin band. 

 Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ l-j% inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 3c, $, 3d, ?). 



Male. Upperside greyish lilacine blue ; costal line of forewing and outer marginal 

 line of both wings very finely black, cilia as in the Wet-season form. Underside also 

 as in that form, the markings very minute and indistinct. 



