PLEBEIN^. 29 



Female. Upperside brown with some blue scaling at the base, a slender marginal 

 black line to both wings ; a black spot at the end of the cell of forewing and sometimes 

 a sub-marginal series of orange spots, generally obsolete, ll'mdwing with a terminal 

 series of black indistinct spots, with pale surroundings, nearly obsolete, sometimes but 

 not often with orange markings ; in most examples all but the terminal series of black 

 indistinct spots of the hindwing are wanting. Underside as in the male, but the ground 

 colour is darker and the markings on the hindwing generally smaller. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ ly\ inches. 



Habitat. — Beluchistan. 



Distribution. — The type is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; de Niceville records 

 it from Quetta, and we have both sexes from Shurog, Quetta and Chaman. 



POLYOMMATUS FUGITIVA. 



Plate 647, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, cJ , 2c, 9 (Wet-season Brood), 2d, (J , 2e, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



Lycaena fugitiva, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 606; id. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1882, p. 207. 



Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 340. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 74 (1890). 

 Lycaena persica, Butler (nee Bienert), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 407 ; id. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1882, 



p. 207. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 340. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 74 (1890). 



Leslie and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 672. 

 Lycaena icarus, Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 339 (1907). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, S, 2a, ?, 21), ^, 2c, ?). 



Imago. — Male. A local form of P. icarus. Upperside bright lilacine blue, with 

 some darker blue scaling at the base of both wings and on the abdominal portion of the 

 hindwing, a fine black costal line to forewing and on the outer margin of both wings. 

 Underside grey with bright blue scales at the base of both wings and on the abdominal 

 portion of the hindwing, markings black with white edges. Furewing with a spot in 

 the cell and another below it, a lunule at the end and a discal row of seven spots, the 

 lowest two small, pale and geminate ; the row is evenly curved outwards above the 

 middle and inwards below it. Hindwing with three sub-basal spots, a pale thin 

 lunular line at the end of the cell and a discal row of eight very small spots, the lowest 

 two geminate, the row elbowed outwards in the fifth interspace ; the spots all of a 

 size ; both wings with brown terminal line, and sub-terminal spots followed by very 

 pale and obscure orange spots (seldom visible) edged on their inner sides by blackish 

 lunules. Cilia white, grey at its base. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and 

 body blackish above with blue hairs, white beneath. 



Female. Upperside brown, with some blue scaling at the base of both wings. 

 Forewing with two or three sub-marginal orange spots below the middle and indications 



