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side with the markings disposed as in the other form, but smaller, and on the hindwing 

 the basal blue irrorations are less, and the sub-terminal lunules are attached to pale 

 orange spots. 



Female. Upperside blue, of a paler and duller colour than the male. Forewing 

 with a rather broad blackish terminal band containins; a series of sub-terminal 

 orange spots which decrease in size upwards, and become obsolete above the middle. 

 Hindunng with the costa broadly suffused with blackish, terminal line black, and a 

 sub-terminal series of five orange spots, inwardly edged with slender black lunules. 

 Underside darker than in the male, markings similarly disposed, both wings with 

 the sub-terminal series of black lunules inwardly edged with white, and the space 

 between them and the black spots near the margin filled in with prominent orange 

 spots. 



Expanse of wings, $ \^q, $ l-j-^o to l^inches. 



Habitat. — Kashgar, Yarkand. 



Three males and four females of the Wet-season form, and five males and three 

 females of the Dry-season form in the B. M. 



The type (a female) is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, a co-type (also a female) is 

 in the B. M., it is much worn and broken, but there can be no doubt it is a female of 

 the Wet-season brood of this local form of icarus. 



Genus AZANUS. 



Azanus, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 79 (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 122 (1890). Bingham, 

 Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 361 (1907). 



Eyes hairy. Forewing with the cell half as long as the wing ; vein 11 emitted at 

 one-third Ijefore the end of cell, strongly bent upwards and anastomosing with 12 for a 

 short distance, then free ; 10 free, 9 out of 7 ; 8 absent ; 7 emitted a little before upper 

 end of cell, 6 from the upper end, 4 from the lower end, 3 from well before the end ; 

 costa arched, apex sub-acute, outer margin rounded, hinder angle obtuse, hinder 

 margin straight. Hindwing with vein 3 emitted before the lower end of the 

 cell. Costa rounded, apex broadly so, outer margin convex, anal angle angular, 

 abdominal margin strongly convex in the middle, concave just before the angle. It 

 differs, however, from the other Plebeids in vein 11 anastomosing with 12 for a short 

 distance, whereas in true Plebeids vein 12 is bent towards 11, but does not touch it. 

 Genitalia almost if not absolutely congeneric with Euchri/sops, and is not strictly 

 Plebeid. 



Type, Ubaldus, Cramer. 



