18 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



white. Underside. Forewing purple-grey, paling towards apex ; a black spot ringed 

 with white at apex of cell, a discal series of small black spots ringed with white, varying 

 in number ; in some specimens only three, usually four. Hindwing pale brownish on 

 the disc, fading into pale greenish-ochreous at the margin, with the following pale 

 ochreous spots ; one in and extending beyond discoidal cell, cuneiform, a discal series 

 of six beyond it, and an indistinct one basally below the costa. 



Female. Upperside dark fuscous, basally irrorated with blue. Underside as in 

 the male. 



This form differs from the var. asintica of Elwes in having fewer discal black spots 

 on forewing, and in the size and length of the pale cellular spot on hindwing (Fawcett). 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 inch. 



Habitat. — Khamba Jong, Thibet, 15,000 feet elevation. Colonel Fawcett has 

 kindly lent us his types for figuring. Elwes says, Proc. Zool. Soc. 190G, p. 485, that 

 he 1)elieves this to be a form of his Asiatica, but there is undoubtedly a marked 

 difference, especially in the whitish streak in the cell of the hindwing. 



SECTION IV.— Latiokina. 



Genitalia very near Albulina, but the dorsal hook is less hea%'7 and more like that 

 of Polyomniatus ; the hard process of the clasp is rather long, and the serrate margin 

 extends round an almost circular termination. 



Type, orbitulus, Esper. 



PLEBEIUS JALOKA. 



Plate 644, figs. 1, $, la, ? , lb, ^ , Ic, ? . 



Poli/ommatus jaloJca, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 573, pi. 66, i5g. 3, ^ . 



Lycsena jaloka, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 86 (1890). Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. 

 IncUa, Butt. ii. p. 349 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purplish -blue, the base of forewing and the basal and 

 abdominal half of hindwing covered with greenish-blue scales. Foreiving with a fine 

 black costal and outer marginal line, and a short black mark edged with grey at the 

 end of the cell. Hindwing with a deeper black terminal line inwardly edged with a 

 very fine white line, interrupted by black dots at the vein ends. Underside greyish- 

 white. Forewing basally irrorated with blue scales, markings black, edged with white, 

 a short lunular mark at the end of the cell, a discal series of six spots, commencing in 

 the third interspace, decreasing in size upwards where it is curved inwards ; three pale 

 blackish somewhat spear-shaped marks between the discal series and the outer margin, 

 in the first three interspaces. Hindwing with the basal third with blue scaling ; a pale 



