PLEBEINM 25 



Forewlng with the black spot at the end of the cell larger, and on the outer margin a 

 series of pale white spots, with small lunular grey marks inside them ; blue iridescent 

 scales on both wings as in the male. Hindwing with the white cell patch and the 

 streak to the sub-terminal series broader, commencing with a point below the cell 

 patch and widening outwards, a series of rather large white terminal spots with 

 brownish spots inside them, capped with orange, the orange marks with what looks 

 like a series of brownish lunules on their inner sides, but the specimen is somewhat 

 faded and all the marginal markings of the hindwing are very indistinct ; no other 

 spots or markings on either wing. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body 

 blackish-brown above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? l^V inches. 



Habitat. — Ladak. 



The above description and figures are taken from Felder's types from the Tring 

 Museum ; they are in fairly good condition, though apparently somewhat faded ; de 

 Niceville suggested that they were dwarfed examples of Ariana, Moore, and Bingham 

 sank Ariana to Stoliczkana,. but they had evidently never seen Felder's types, which 

 have no resemblance to Moore's species. There are two examples of Stoliczkana in the 

 B. M. which have some of the usual discal spots on the underside more or less visible. 



POLYOMMATUS DEVANICA. 



Plate 646, figs. 1, $ , U, ?, lb, $. 



Polyommatus devanica, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 573, pi. 66, fig. 4, ^ . 



Lycsena devanica, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 71 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, 

 Butt. ii. p. 344 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dusky purplish-brown with blue scaling on the basal 

 portions, sometimes covering the greater portion of the wings, but the amount is very 

 irregular and varying ; a black luuular mark at the end of the cell in both wings and 

 black terminal line. Underside dark brownish-grey, or greyish-brown ; much darker 

 than usual, the spots black, large and prominent, and broadly ringed with white. 

 Forewing with one at the end of the cell, a discal series of five (sometimes six) spots, 

 the upper one inwards, the third, fourth and fifth from the top rather oblique ; just 

 outside this series is a row of brown lunular marks, a sub-terminal row of smaller brown 

 marks, all more or less ringed with whitish, and a brown marginal line. Hindwing 

 with four sub-basal spots almost in a line, a spot at the end of the cell, a discal series 

 of five spots almost in a line, the lower two geminate, the series completed to seven by 

 a spot near the middle of the costa and another outwardly below it ; marginal line 

 brown, a series of sub-marginal brown spots, the lower two small and geminate, each 

 capped with pale orange and edged outwardly by a white line, the orange edged 

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