24 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



a discal series of seven spots, the two lowest geminate, the row evenly curved 

 outwards above its middle, some blue scaling at the base. H'mdwing with the 

 basal portions irrorated with blue scales, four sub-basal spots in a line, a fine lunular 

 line in a small white patch at the end of the cell, a discal outwardly well curved row fif 

 seven spots, the lowest lunular ; both wings with brown terminal line, a sub-terminal 

 series of spear-shaped white marks, each with a grey spot in it ; the middle spots of 

 the hindwing expanding into a white streak inwards, its inner point joining the 

 discoidal patch. Antennse black, ringed with white ; head and body blackish, with blue 

 hairs. 



Female. Upperside brown, costal line of forewing white, marginal line of both 

 wings blackish, a few indistinct blackish sub-terminal spots on the hindwing. Under- 

 side darker than the male, markings similar. 



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



Habitat. — Kardong Pass, 17,000 feet elevation (types) ; it is in the B. M. also 

 from the Chongching Valley, Ladak and Kashmir. 



POLYOMMATUS STOLICZKANA. 



Plate 645, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, $ , 4b, $ , ia, $ . 



Lycsemt stoliczlcana, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 283, pi. 35, figs. 10, 11, ^ (1863). de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, iii. p. 73 (1890). Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 341 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rather pale violet-blue. Forewing with dark blue 

 iridescent scales at the base and along two-thirds of the hinder marginal space. Hind- 

 wing with the basal and abdominal portions with similar iridescent scales ; both wings 

 with brown marginal line. ".Cilia white with a basal brown band. Underside pale violet- 

 grey, all the veins more or less prominent, marginal line brown. Forewing with a 

 black thin linear mark at the end of the cell, on a round white spot ; some bright 

 iridescent blue scales at the base, outer part of the wing palest, the interspaces being 

 somewhat whitish. Hindwing with the basal and abdominal portions broadly irrorated 

 with blue iridescent scales, a large pale whitish spot or round patch at the end of the 

 cell, with the whitish colour continued in the interspace above vein 4 down to the 

 outer margin, which contains a series of rather broad whitish streaks in all the inter- 

 spaces, each streak containing a fine line of the ground colour ; with the exception of the 

 mark at the end of the cell of the forewing there are no other marks or spots on either 

 wing. Cilia pure white without the basal band. 



Female. Upperside violet-brown with some basal blue scales on the forewing and 

 on both basal and abdominal portions of the hindwing, a few markings on the outer 

 margin of the latter, like nearly obsolete pale spots. Underside coloured like the male. 



