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with two or three blue-green metallic scales. Cilia snow-white. Underside dark grey, 

 spots large and edged with clear-cut white rings. Forewing with the largest spot of 

 all, at the end of the cell ; in some examples it looks like two spots closely joined 

 together, a discal series of six spots quite close to the large discoidal spot, the first four 

 from the upper end in a well-curved series, the lowest spot outwards, the third, fourth 

 and fifth at right angles to the others, like short bars, the fifth generally the longest. 

 Jlindwing with four sub-basal spots in an irregular line, a thick lunular mark at the 

 end of the cell, and a discal series of seven spots, the sixth from the costa outwardly 

 deeply curved, the seventh placed a little outwards ; both wings with a terminal brown 

 line, a sub-terminal series of brown lunular marks, edged inwardly by conspicuous white 

 lunules, and between them a paler series of brown lunular marks, the last four spaces 

 before the anal angle of the hindwing filled in with orange sufi'usion, the spots in them 

 jet black with metallic blue-green scales, the two middle ones the largest. 



Female, above and below, like the male. 



Antennae black, ringed with white ; thorax and abdomen blackish above, white 

 beneath ; front and top of head white. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1 to IxV inches. 



Habitat. — Central Asia, Pamirs, Chitral. 



Distribution. — A fine series in the B. M. from Turkestan, Samarkund, and many 

 other parts of Central Asia, and nine examples from Ziarat and Jhela Drosh, Chitral, 

 collected by Leslie and Evans. 



SECTION III.— Albulina. 



Genitalia agrees with Aricia in the general form of the long hard process of the 

 clasp, but has the hook of the dorsal process with a very broad square base, and the 

 upper portion thick below, tapering and ending in a slight hook. 



Type, pheretes. Eversmann. 



PLEBEIUS LEHANA. 

 Plate 643, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, i . 



Polyommatus lehana, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 230; id. Sci. Res. Second Yark. Miss. 



Lep. p. 6, pi. i. fig. 6, ^ (1879). 

 Lyceena lehana, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 81 (1890). Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 379. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 352, pi. 19, 



fig. 132, (J, 133, 9 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purplish-blue, with some dark blue scaling at the base ; 

 both wings with very fine marginal black line. Underside. Foreicing plumbeous- 

 grey, with blue scaling at the base, markings blackish-bi'own with white edges ; a 

 lunular mark at the end of the cell, a discal row of five small spots, evenly curved 



