214 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1-^, $ ly^o inches. 



IjARva, when full grown sixth of an inch in length ; of the usual Lycsenid shape ; 

 coloration light green of the exact shade of young leaves ; the very small head, placed 

 upon a long neck, is intensely black and shining ; the segments increase slightly in 

 width to the fifth, then gradually decrease to the thirteenth ; the whole surface is 

 finely shagreened, but entirely without markings, except two dorsal lines of a pale 

 bluish-green colour from the second to the tenth segment, slightly converging 

 posteriorly ; the colour of the ground between these lines slightly darker than the 

 rest of the surface ; a few colourless short lateral hairs ; the segments slowly constricted ; 

 no mouth-like opening on the eleventh, or erectile organs on the twelfth segment. 

 Feeds on Prinsepia utilis, Royle. 



Pupa, "40 to "45 of an inch in length; of the usual Lycsenid shape, pale brown, 

 irregularly and obscurely spotted and blotched with darker brown, no regular markings 

 whatever, the surface rough, with short colourless bristly hairs (de Niceville). 



Dr. A. Forel, of Geneva, has identified the ant which attends this species in 

 Mussuri as Acantholepis capensis,Ma.jv, var. lunaris, Em. (Mackinnon and de Niceville). 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Leslie and Evans record it from Chitral ; it is in the B. M. from 

 Kashmir, Simla, Naini Tal, Murri and Masuri ; and in our collection from Thundiani, 

 Kulu, and Pangi. 



LTCiENOPSIS SIKKIMA. 

 Plate 622, figs. 2, $, 2a, ?, 2b, $ (We<>season Brood), 2c, <? , 2d, ? (Dry-season Brood). 

 Cyaniris siVf/nma, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 524, pi. 48, fig. \l, $ . de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, iii. p. 105 (1890). 

 Celastrina argiolus, var. siJcJcima, Tutt, Brit. Lep. ix. p. 388, pi. 28 (1908). Chapman, Proc. Ent. Soc. 



1908, p. ixxxi. 

 Lycsenopsis argiolus, var. sikhima, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 444. 



Cyaniris ji/nteana, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 294. Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, 

 Butt. ii. p. 331 (1907). 



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

 Imago. — Male. Upperside dark dull purplish-blue. Forewlng with a black spot 

 at the end of the cell ; a black costal line, a blackish, broad outer marginal band, 

 broadest at the apex, but otherwise of uniform width. Hindwinff with a black marginal 

 line and black lunules. Underside greyish-white, markings grey. Forewing with a 

 linear mark at the end of the cell, a post-discal regular row of outwardly oblique, short 

 linear marks in interspaces 2 to 5, rather closer than usual to the margin, a spot also 

 inwards near the costa. Hindwmg with a linear mark at the end of the cell ; three 

 sub-basal small black spots, sub-costal, central, and one near the abdominal margin, a 

 little inwards, a discal row of very small black dots, disposed as in L. ccelestina, both 



