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Note. — Some doubts have been stated as to the identification of the proper female 

 of this species ; the female herein described and figured was captured by Mr. Paul 

 Mowis in Sikkim, and was sent to us with a number of males taken at the same time 

 and place. 



LYC^NOPSIS JYNTEANA. 

 Plate 625, figs. 1, (J, la, ?, lb, $. 



Cyaniris jytiteana, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 69, pi. 1, figs. 7, <? , 7a, $ . Moore, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 524, pi. 48, fig. 10, <? . de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 104 (1890). 



Manders, Trans. Eat. Soc. 1890, p. 528. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 44. 



Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 623. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 659. 



Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 331 (1907). Chapman, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1908, 



p. Ixxxiii. 

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



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings deep lavender-blue. Foreunng with the 

 outer margin widest at the apex, sometimes reduced to a point at the hinder angle, 

 dusky black ; an indistinct discocellular streak sometimes absent ; and the disc between 

 the median nervules, just beyond the cell irrorated with white scales in some specimens. 

 Hindwing with the outer margin dusky black, its inner edge lunulated. In some 

 specimens the apical area is obscurely irrorated with white. Underside, both wings 

 pale grey. Forewing with a pale brown discocellular streak, a discal series of five 

 similar spots, of which the upper one is much out of line, being placed nearer the 

 base of the wing ; a sub-marginal lunulated line and marginal spots very pale brown ; 

 the usual fine anticiliary black line. Hindwing with three sub-basal black spots ; a 

 slender brown discocellular streak ; a very sinuous discal series of nine spots ; marginal 

 markings as on the forewing. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing with all but the middle of the disc (which is 

 white, glossed with iridescent blue) black ; a discocellular black spot. Hindwing 

 blackish, white in the middle, glossed, with blue, and along the veins irrorated with 

 black scales ; a sub-marginal series of pale lunules. Underside, both wings marked 

 exactly as in the male (de Nice'ville). 



Expanse of wings, $ ly^ to 1^%, ? -^q to 1 /q inches. 



Habitat. — Assam, Sikkim. 



A rare species much resembling the Wet-season form of S. sikkima, but Dr. 

 Chapman has shown that the genitalia is quite difi"erent, and that there is some slight 

 constant diiference in the fascies ; the types came from the Jaintia Hills in Assam ; 

 we have received many thousands of Lycsenids from that locality during the last 

 twenty years, but do not appear to have ever received this species, as all our examples 

 have been identified as sikkima by Dr. Chapman ; we put the references above for 

 what they are worth, most of them probably refer to sikkima. 



