250 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



id. 1891, p. 179. Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 381. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. 



India, Butt. ii. p. 417, pi. 20, fig. 1-51, $ (1907). 

 Lycaena psittacus, Allard, Ann. Soc. Fr. 1867, p. 313. 

 Lycsena nara, Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. p. 421 (1848). 

 Tarucus nara, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 606, and 1886, p. 366. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



1888, p. 147. Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 245. Swinhoe, id. 1884, p. 506, and 1885, 



p. 134, and 1886, p. 427. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 190 (1890). 

 Tarucus alteratus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 245, pi. 12, fig. 4, 4a, ^ . de Niceville, I.e. p. 192 



(1890). 

 Tarucus calinara, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 185, and 1888, p. 147. de Niceville, I.e. 



p. 191 (1890). 

 Tarucus exlricatus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 366, pl. 35, fig. 2, (J . Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist. 1888, p. 147. de Niceville, I.e. p. 192 (1890). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, $). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale greyish-purple, a mauve colour ; the markings of 

 the underside showing through the wings ; outer marginal lines thickly black, with the 

 black colour running inwards shortly on the veins, some black anticiliaiy spots on the 

 hindwing ; cilia of both wings white, with a black basal band. Underside greyish- 

 white, nearly white ; markings black. Forewing with a streak from the costa a little 

 before the middle to the hinder margin, near the base and continued across the base of 

 the hindwing ; a somewhat oblique and rather sinuous transverse streak a little before 

 the middle and not reaching the costa ; a streak from near the costa, close to the other 

 streak, runs obliquely outwards to the hinder marginal fourth, and is disconnected in 

 its middle ; three spots in a triangle in the upper disc ; a post-discal thin band, 

 which curves inwards below the costa ; a sub-terminal thinner band, both more 

 or less divided by the veins and a thick marginal line. I/indwing with a sub-basal 

 oblique band not reaching the costa, followed by three bands of disconnected 

 short streaks, a post-discal band like that on the forewing, a sub-terminal series 

 of spots shining with blue metallic scales and a terminal line ; tails black, tipped 

 with white. 



Female. Upperside rather duller in colour, the markings of the underside more 

 plainly visible than they are in the male. Forewing with some white in the upper 

 disc ; a brown spot at the end of the cell, a discal band of brown spots, followed by a 

 brownish complete band, a sub-terminal brown band and a black marginal line. 

 Hindwing with ante-medial, medial and post-medial brownish bands, a sub-terminal 

 series of white lunular marks on a brownish ground, a black terminal line, and between 

 them a series of black spots, increasing in size hindwards, and a white anticiliary row of 

 thin lunules. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1-jV inches. 



