PLEBEIN^. 19 



brownish rather broad and even medial band deeply elbowed outwards in its middle, 

 leaving a large white spot inside the elbow. Cilia white, black basally. Antennae 

 black, ringed with white, the club bright bronzy-red on the underside ; head and body 

 blackish above with blue hairs, white beneath. 



Female. Upperside brown, with some dull blue basal scaling, marked like the 

 male. Underside. Forewing with the basal two-thirds suffused with brown, sharply 

 defined just before the discal series of spots which are disposed as in the male, as also 

 are the paler spots before the outer margin above the hinder angle. Hindwing with 

 the basal third densely irrorated with blue scaling, the elbowed band represented on 

 both sides of the large white spots, meeting both above and below it. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ -^q to 1 inch. 



Habitat. — Kashmir. 



Distribution. — Recorded from the Rajdiangan Pass, Sursungar and Stakpila 

 Passes, and Baitul. 



PLEBEIUS ELLISI. 



Plate 644, figs. 2, $ (one form), 2a, $ (another form), 2b, ? , 2c, $ , Id, ? . 



Polyommatus ellisi, Marshall, Journ. As. See. Bengal, 1882, p. 41, pi. 4, fig. 4, ^ . 



Lycsena ellisi, de Nice\ille, Butt, of India, iii. p. 87 (1890). 



Lycsena leela, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 66, pi. 1, figs. .3, (J , 3a, $ ; id. Butt, of 



India, iii. p. 87 (1890). 

 Lycsena jaloka, Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 349 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale greyish-black, with blue basal irrorations. Fore- 

 wing with a thick lunular black spot ringed with white at the end of the cell, and a 

 discal medial series of five white spots with black centres. Hindwing with a fine black 

 lunule ringed with white at the end of the cell, and a white spot above it a little 

 outwards, a discal medial row of five white spots with blackish centres, the lowest 

 small and a little outwards. Cilia of both wings white. Underside grey, suffused with 

 pale chocolate colour. Both wings with the spots as above, but more prominent, the 

 upper spot on the hindwing joined to another above it, the base of this wing suffused 

 with blue scales. 



Female. Upperside greyish-black, much darker than the male, with some blue 

 scales at the base. Both wings with similar white spots, but without black centres. 

 Underside grey, with glistening blue scales at the base of the hindwing, which often 

 occupy a third of the wing. Foreiving with the white spots very faintly indicated, 

 but without black centres. Hindwing with the cell spot and upper spot large and 

 touching each other, a blackish patch on their outer side, the black colour continued in 

 a ring round the upper spot, also indications of a discal series of white spots. 



Expanse of wings, $ % 1 inch. 



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