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on the costal portion ; a sub-terminal indistinct, grey lunular line ; a black marginal 

 line, with black spots between them ; veins blackish and prominent. Underside as in 

 the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ l-j^ inches. 



Habitat. — Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam, Upper Burma, Arracan. 

 Distribution. — Recorded by Elwes from the Naga Hills, by Watson from the 

 Chin Hills, by de Nice'ville from Nepal, Kumaon, North Cachar, and Sibsaghar ; in our 

 collection from Sikkim, Cashmir, and many examples of both sexes of both forms from 

 the Khasia Hills. 



LYCJINOPSIS MELJINA. 

 Plate 625, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ^ . 

 Gyaniris melsena, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 434, pi. 23, fig. 13, $ . de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, iii. p. 97 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 622. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. 1900, p. 443. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 320 (1907). 

 Ltjcsenopsis melaena. Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 464 (text fig. 108). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dull dark purple blue, iridescent in certain lights ; 

 the darkest species of the genus we have yet seen. Forewing with broad costal and 

 outer marginal black borders, broadest at the apex. Hindiving with a broad blackish 

 costal space ; marginal band black ; in the type-specimen apparently complete, but in 

 other examples the band contains a series of lunular marks of the ground colour of the 

 wing. Underside greyish-white with a blue tint ; markings black. Forewing with a 

 line at the end of the cell ; a post-discal series of short lines, the second, fourth and 

 fifth outwardly oblique, the fifth and sixth recurved inwards ; a sub-terminal line of 

 short blackish-brown lines ; a terminal slightly sinuous black line ; and between them 

 some pale blackish spots. Hindwing with the spots more prominent ; a line at the 

 end of the cell ; the usual three sub-basal spots ; a row of discal spots disposed as 

 usual, the centre one the largest and obliquely placed ; a black terminal line ; a sub- 

 terminal angulated pale line ; and between them a series of prominent black spots. 

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

 black above with dark blue lines, greyish- white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, 1-j^ inches. 



Female, unknown. 



Habitat. — Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula. 



There are three examples in our collection ; it is not in the B. M. 



LYCiENOPSIS AKASA. 

 Plate 626, figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, ?. 

 Polyommatus dkasa, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 67, pi. 1, figs. 1, la, $ (1828). 

 Gyaniris akasa, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 75, pi. 34, fig. 5, $ (1881). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. 



