220 LEPIBOPTEBA INBICA. 



LYCJINOPSIS PLACIDA. 



Plate 624, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, <J , 2c, ? . 

 Cyaniris ^dacida, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 68, pi. i. fig. 8, $ . Moore, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1883, p. 523, pi. 48, fig. 5, $. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 334. Distant, 



Ehop. Malayans, p. 453, pi. 44, fig. 7, $ (1886). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 103 (1890). 



Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 527. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 44. 



Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 623. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 294. Bingham, Fauna 



of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 326 (1907). 

 Lycsenopsis placida, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 447. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark greyish-blue. Forewing with a black costal line, 

 and black outer marginal band of disconnected linear marks. Hindwing with a 

 blackish narrow costal space, and a marginal band of small triangular black spots ; the 

 terminal bands in some examples are broader than in others having the spots joined 

 together. Underside dull greyish-white, markings pale brown. Forewing with a line 

 at the end of the cell ; a post-discal row of linear marks, the mark in the third 

 interspace being oblique outwards, otherwise they are nearly in a line, the uppermost 

 mark is on the inner side and well separated from the costa. Hindwing with the three 

 usual black sub-basal spots in a line, the fourth spot on the abdominal margin nearer 

 the base, but much closer than usual to the other abdominal marginal spot; a 

 lunular line at the end of the cell ; the usual discal row of spots, and both wings 

 with sub-terminal lunular line and marginal black line, enclosing a series of spots, 

 those on the hindwing being black and triangular. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing nearly all brownish-black ; the costal and outer 

 blackish bauds very broad ; a black spot at the end of the cell touching the costal 

 band ; a large white patch in the disc ; the rest of the wing suffused with blackish, 

 with some blue reflections. Hindwing. Upperside with a very broad blackish costal 

 liand, filling up one-third of the wing ; a narrow marginal black band, its inner side 

 containing black triangular spots with white lunular inner edges and enclosed by a 

 sub-terminal lunular blackish line ; the rest of the wing, with the exception of a white 

 discal patch, is suffused with blackish with blue reflections ; the outer half of the veins 

 black. Underside as in the male, but all the markings very large and prominent. 

 Cilia grey, tipped with white. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body 

 black above, whitish beneath. 



Expanse of wings, $ % l^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Malay Peninsula. 



Distribution. — Manders records it from the Shan States, Watson from Chin 

 Lushai and the Chin Hills, Elwes from the Naga Hills, de Niceville from Sibsagar 

 and Penang ; it is in our collection from Sikkim, Pangi, Kulu, the Khasia Hills, and 

 from Sinabong in Sumatra. 



