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inwardly by brown lunules, tbe latter again inwardly edged by white luuules, these 

 white lunules expanding into a white patch in the middle of the disc. 



Female. Upperside uniformly dark brown with a few blue-grey basal scales, very 

 nearly resembling the male, cell marks and marginal line black. Underside slightly 

 darker, markings as in the male. Cilia white with brown spots opposite the extremity 

 of the veins. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body blackish above, with 

 a little blue pubescence, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — Ladak, Kashmir. 



Distribution. — It is in the B. M. from Dras, Gorais Valley, as well as the type 

 from Ladak ; in our collection from Ladak. 



POLTOMMATUS ARIANA. 



Plate 646, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, 9 , 2b, ^ (Wet-season Brood), 

 2o, ^ , 2d, V J 2e, ^, 2f, 9 (Dry-season Brood = aj-e?ie, Fawcett). 



Puhjommatm artana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 504-, pi. 31, fig. 2, ^ ; and 1874, p. 271; 



id. Sci. Res. Second Yarkand Miss. Lep. p. 6 (1879). 

 Lycsena ariana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 246. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 



p. 133. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 72 (1890). Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 379. Leslie and Evans, id. 1903, p. 672. 

 Cupido ariana, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 368 ; id. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 149. 

 Li/ciena sutleja, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 246. 



Lijcsena sioliczJcana, Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 341, pi. 19, fig. 130, ^ (1907). 

 Li/ciena arene, Fawcett, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, p. 137, pi. 9, fig. 4. 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, $, 2a, ?, 2b, j). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purplish-blue. Forewivg with a blackish costal line, 

 and rather broad marginal blackish border, and inside this border is a series of very 

 indistinct, pale bluish short marks in the interspaces ; an indistinct small blackish spot 

 at the upper end of the cell. HindirAng with the costa rather broadly suffused with 

 pale blackish, and a marginal, inwardly suffused blackish band, broader than the marginal 

 baud of the forewiug ; some dull blue scales on the basal portions of both wings, 

 marginal line Ijlack. Underside rather dark brownish-grey with basal blue irrorations ; 

 markings black, ringed with white. Foreiving with a spot inside the cell, another 

 sometimes below it, neither always present, a slender short lunular mark at the end, a 

 series of seven discal spots, curved inwards above, the lowest two small and geminate, 

 a grey terminal line, and short greyish linear sub-terminal marks. Hindicbvi a little 

 darker, three sub-basal spots, the lowest more or less obsolete, a very slender pale 



