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broad as on the forewing, with the spots and enclosing lunular line much as in the 

 female of cnejus, but generally without any indications of orange or white edgings, but 

 sometimes there are indications of them. Underside as in the male, the markings and 

 the white fascia on the hindwing more prominent. 

 Expanse of wings, $ ? xu inch. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Ic, $, Id, $). 



Male. Upperside very pale lilac-blue, marginal lines brown, the anal spots on the 

 hindwing more prominent. Underside paler than in the other form, but like the Wet- 

 season form the colour is of quite a different kind to that of cnejus ; markings similar to 

 those of the Wet form. 



Female. Upperside coloured like the male, but the costal and outer portions of 

 the forewing are broadly suffused with pale brownish-grey, the markings on the 

 hindwing as in the Wet form, but more distinct, the marginal spots ringed with white, 

 the anal spots with pale ochreous. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $, y^^- inch. 



Genitalia. — Harpago broad, longish, fore apex developed into a long hook ; 

 altogether much more Pleheid than cnejus ; cingula erect as in the Plebeids. Tegumen 

 Pleheid in all particulars, the harpagines different, very deeply cleft, with long narrow 

 pointed cheeks ; furca long and narrow as in the Plebeids ; sedceagus narrow, angled at 

 a quarter from the tip ; the harpagines are nearer the arion group ; cingula and 

 tegumen essentially Pleheid. 



Note. — Bingham has put ayntracta as a synonym to cnejus ; we believe he could 

 not have had sufficient material to judge by. We have a very fine series of seasonal 

 forms of both, and believing, as we always have maintained, that they are distinct 

 from each other, we obtained from Mr. Bethune-Baker a diagnosis of the genitalia of 

 each. 



Habitat. — N.W. India. 



Distribution. — The type-specimens of all the above were collected by us ; we 

 took this species on the Hubb River in Beluchistan, in Kandahar, Karachi and Kutch. 



ALLIED CHINESE AND MALAYAN SPECIES. 



Euchrysops tri/racta, Catochrysops trifracta, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1884, p. 194. Habitat, 



Rat Island, Straits of Malacca. 

 Euchrysops luzonicus, Plebeius luzonicus, Rober, Iris, 1886, p. 60, pi. 5, fig. 22. Habitat, Philippines. 

 Euchrysops arcana, Lycfena arcana, Leech, Entom. xxiii. p. 43 (1890). Everes arcana, Leech, Butt, of 



China, etc. ii. p. 329, pi. 31, fig. 1, J (1893). Habitat, W. China. 



