216 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale grey-blue, whitish in the disc of both wings, the 

 veins more or less prominent. Forewing with the costal line black, outer marginal 

 band also black, but narrow, deepest at the apex, narrowing hind wards into a fine line at 

 the hinder angle ; a linear grey mark at the end of the cell. Hindwing with some dark 

 suffusion on the costa ; a sub-terminal, somewhat grey line and a black marginal line. 

 Underside uniformly dark greyish-white, almost without any markings, a few scattered 

 Idack minute dots indicating the usual markings. 



Female. Upperside mostly white. Forewing with broad black borders ; the base, 

 inner half of the costal portion, and the lower two-thirds sufi'used with blackish ; costal 

 line black, broadening into a band from before the middle, broadest at the apex and 

 narrower down the outer margin to the hinder angle, a black spot at the end of the 

 cell, touching the costal band. Hindwing with the costal portion blackish, marginal 

 line black, a sub-terminal line of grey lunules, and between them a series of black spots ; 

 the base and abdominal marginal portions sufi'used with blackish. Underside as in 

 the male. Cilia of forewing blackish, edged with white, of the hindwing pure white ; 

 antennse black, ringed with white ; head and body blackish above, pale beneath. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1^ to 1 ^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Khasia Hills. 



Ten males and four females received by us from the Khasia Hills in one batch in 

 1893, never received since amongst the great number of butterfiies we have had from 

 the same collector. 



LYC^NOPSIS LANKA. 



Plate 623, figs. 1, ^ , la, ? , lb, ? . 



Polyommatus lanka, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 342. 



Cijaniris lanJca, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 76, pi. 35, figs. 2, 2a, <J (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, iii. p. 109 (1890). Manders, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1901, p. 78. Bingham, Fauna 



of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 330 (1907). 

 Lyceenopsis lanlca, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 456 (text fig. 96). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside uniform dark purplish-blue ; a very fine black 

 marginal line on both wings, sometimes present, often absent. Underside shining 

 greyish-white, marking grey, very indistinct. Forewing with a linear mark at the end 

 of the cell ; a post-discal series of linear markings in an almost straight line, rather 

 nearer the margin than is usual. Hindwing with the usual three sub-basal black spots, 

 almost in a straight line ; the discal row of the usual pattern ; both wings with sub- 

 terminal grey lunular line, black terminal line and black spots between them, but the 

 sub-terminal line is not always apparent. 



