28 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



liindwing except the narrow marginal portions ; costal line of forewing, and outer 

 marginal line of both wings black. Cilia brownish at the base, its outer portion white, 

 tipped with grey. Underside dark chocolate-grey, some green scaling in the l)arral 

 portion of the hindwing ; spots deep black, ringed with white. Foreudng with a thick 

 lunular spot at the end of the cell, an evenly, outwardly curved, discal series of six 

 round spots, the lowest in the first median interspace. Hindiving with three sub-basal 

 spots in a row, the lower two rather close together ; an evenly outwardly curved discal 

 series of seven round spots, the lowest geminate, a white streak between the fourth 

 and fifth spots, running into a small white patch at the end of the cell ; which contains 

 a very fine lunular line ; both wings with a terminal fine black line, sub-terminal black 

 spots, outwardly edged with white, and inwardly with orange, capped with black 

 lunules. Cilia pure white. 



Female. Upperside dark chocolate-brown, black lunular spot at the end of 

 the cell of the forewing, and both wings with sub-terminal black spots capped with 

 orange, four on the lower part of the forewing and five on the hindwing. Underside 

 much darker than in the male, markings similar but larger, and brighter coloured, and 

 in addition on the forewing there is a spot inside the cell and another below it, the 

 latter in the left wing being geminate. 



Expanse of wings, J ? 1 inch. 



Habitat. — Peshawar, types in Mus. Druce. 



The underside in both sexes is much like the underside of Pleheius astrarcJie, 

 Bero'strasser. 



POLYOMMATUS BILUCHA. 



Plate 647, figs. 1, $, la, ? , lb, $. 



Lyceena bilucha, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 24. Swiuhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 340. 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 76 (1890). 

 Lrjcstna balucha, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 340 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside shining opalescent purplish-blue, base of both wings 

 and abdominal area of hindwing with iridescent dark blue scales ; costal line of fore- 

 wing and marginal line of both wings black. Cilia white with a grey basal line. 

 Underside grey, markings black edged with white. Forewing with a spot inside the 

 cell and another below it, a short lunular mark at the end, a discal row of six spots, 

 elbowed outwards in the 6th interspace. Hindwing with three sub-basal spots, and a 

 deeply curved discal row of seven spots, the upper one just below the middle of the 

 costa the largest, both wings with some blue scales at the base, a marginal fine brown 

 line, a sub-terminal series of spots, bro-WTi on forewing, black ou the hindwing, followed 

 by a series of orange spots inwardly edged by blackish lunules. Antennis black, ringed 

 with white ; head and body blackish above with blue hairs, whitish beneath. 



