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of paler spots upwards, but generally these spots are absent. Hinchcing with some 

 very indistinct blackish sub-terminal marks. Underside dark brownish-grey, markings 

 as in the male, but the orange spots near the outer margin of the hindwings, though 

 pale, are distinctly visible. 



Expanse of wings, 3" ? 1^ inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2d, $, 2e, $). 



Male and Female do not differ from the other form, except in their smallness of 

 size and paler colour, and with all the markings on the underside very minute, and the 

 orange sub-terminal spots on both wings of the female above are often complete. 



Expanse of wings, $ ^ 1 inch. 



Habitat. — Beloochistan, Kandahar. 



Distribution. — The types came from Quetta, in North Beloochistan ; there are 

 many examples in our collection taken at Kandahar, Chaman and Quetta, and we have 

 received it from Gwal, Sheerog, Karian and the Lora Valley ; it is no doubt a local 

 form of P. icariis, Eottenburg. 



POLYOMMATUS CHITRALENSIS, nov, 

 Plate 647, figs. 3, .^ , 3a, ? , 3b, $ . 



Imago. — Male. A local form of P. icarus. Upperside dark lavender-blue. 

 Forewing with a slender black costal line, both wings with black terminal line. Cilia 

 white, with a brown basal band. Underside dark grey, spots black ringed with white, 

 much larger and more prominent than in P. fiigitiva or P. yarkundensis, markings 

 similarly disposed, but there are eight spots in the discal row on the hindwing, the 

 lowest two being twin spots ; in some examples the sub-marginal orange spots of the 

 hindwing are very prominent. 



Female. Upperside dark brown with a pinkish-ochreous tint. Forewing in some 

 examples without any markings, in others there are three or four pale orange sub- 

 terminal spots above the hinder angle. Hindwing with a more or less complete series 

 of sub-terminal black spots marked with blue on the outer side and with orange capped 

 with dark brown lunules on the inner side, prominent in some examples, more or less 

 obsolescent in others. Underside darker than in the male and more pinkish tinged, all 

 the spots and also the sub-terminal orange spots on both wings large and prominent. 



Expanse of wings, (? ? 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — Chitral, eight males and four females in the B. M. The tint of the 

 blue colour of the upperside in the males is different to the other forms of P. icarus. 



