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Female, like tlie Wet-season form female, above and below, but the ground colour 

 of the wings above has a whitish-lilacine tint, and the marginal markings of the 

 hindwing are much more prominent. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and 

 body brownish-black above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ? ? I5 inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Recorded from Kashmir, Murri, Simla, Mussuri, and Naini Tal ; 

 we have it from Kulu, and it is in the B. M. from Kangra, Chumba, Mandi, Dana, and 

 Dalhousie. 



LYCENOPSIS CCELESTINA. 

 Plate 622, figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, $. 



Lycsena coelesttna, KoUar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. (2), p. 423 (1848). 



Cyaniris coelestina, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 244. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 106 

 (1890). Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 379. Leslie and 

 Evans, id. 1903, p. 673. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 332 (1907). 



Lycxnopsis coelestina, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 444. 



Lycsena kollari, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 491 (1848). 



Cyaniris kollari, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 367 ; id. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 148. 



Polyommatus kasmira, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 503, pi. 31, fig. 1, ^ ; id. 1874, p. 272. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside lilac-blue, Forewing with a black costal line, which 

 thickens towards the apex ; a narrow outer marginal black band which thins hind- 

 wards. Hindwing with a slender marginal black line. Underside pearly bluish- 

 white ; with blue basal irrorations, markings black. Forewing with a pale linear mark 

 at the end of the cell ; a discal row of linear marks in interspaces 2 to 5, the mark 

 in interspace 3 the longest, the row completed by an inward sub-costal spot. Hindwing 

 with three sub-basal spots, the first sub-costal, the second below the middle, and the 

 third close to the abdominal margin and more inwards ; a discal row of spots, the 

 upper one close to the costa a little beyond the middle, with a spot a little inwardly 

 below it ; four spots in the disc, in a curve, one outwardly below the last, another 

 small spot close to it, and one close to the abdominal margin a little beyond the 

 middle ; both wings with sub-terminal greyish lunules ; in many examples the 

 markings are more or less obsolescent. Cilia white, with some blackish points at the 

 ends of the veins on the forewing. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and 

 body above blackish, white beneath. 



Female. Upperside paler and of a duller colour than the male, Forewing with a 

 broad blackish costal band commencing narrowly at the base, gradually widening 

 towards the apex and continued broadly on the outer margin, Hindwing with the 

 costa broadly blackish, except on the costal edge, which is pale ; a black terminal line 

 with blackish lunules, inwardly edged with whitish. Underside as in the male. 



