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inwards at its upper end. Ilindwing with the ground colour darker ; markings pure 

 white, large and prominent, a streak within the cell, a costal spot above it, another spot 

 outwards close to it, a spot below obliquely outwards, five squarish lengthened spots in 

 the disc in a row, only separated from each other by the veins, the upper end outwardly 

 obliquely below the last-mentioned spot, the row running right across the wing, the 

 lowest spot belonging to it (very small) placed inwards, a series of paler and more 

 obscure sub-terminal spots, all the spots centred by very obscure grey dots. Cilia 

 white. Autennse black, ringed with white ; head and body blackish above, clothed 

 with bluish hairs, white beneath, the palpi beneath fringed with black hairs. 



Female. Upperside darker than the male, otherwise it is similar both above and 

 beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 inch. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Mackinnon and de Niceville record it from Mussuri, de Niceville 

 from Leh and Ladak ; and both sexes are in our collection from Kashmir. 



PLEBEIUS ASIATICA. 



Plate 643, figs. 3, (J , 3a, $ , 3b, $ . 



Lycsena pheretes, var. asiatica, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 402 ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 

 p. 382. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 81 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, 

 Butt. ii. p. 352, pi. 19, fig. 134 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing more pointed at apex. Upperside, both wings rich 

 metallic blue, with very fine marginal black line. Underside grey. Forewing with a 

 thin black lunular mark edged with white at the end of the cell, some blue scaling at 

 the base of the wing. Hindwing irrorated with blue scales on the basal two-thirds, the 

 white spots arranged as in Lehana, but smaller and more round. 



Female. Upperside darker and duller in colour, with fine marginal black line. 

 Underside coloured like the male. Forewing with three small white spots in a 

 transverse row in the upper disc, instead of the complete row of discal spots as in 

 Leiuina. Hindwiiig with a white lunule at the end of the cell, the remaining markings 

 as in Lekaiia. 



Expanse of wings, ^ -^ , ? 1 inch. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Chumbi. 



PLEBEIUS PHARIS. 



Plate 643, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, ? , 4b, <J . 

 Lycsena pheretes, var. pharis, Fawoett, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. ii. p. 138, pi. 9, figs. 5, (J , 5a, 9 . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purple-blue. Forewing with a black marginal 

 line; margin of hindwing broadly black, especially at apex and costa ; cilia broadly 

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