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black, with white edgings. Forewinp with a spot at the end of the cell, and a 

 discal series of spots, highly curved outwards above the middle and inwards 

 below it. Hindn:ing with four sub-basal spots in a line, a thin lunule at the end 

 of the cell, a discal series of spots curved above and below as in the forewing ; 

 Ijoth wings with terminal black line, a sub-terminal series of black spots with a white 

 line between them and the terminal line, the white line having black dots on the vein 

 ends, the black spots heavily crowned with orange and the orange crowned with thin 

 blackish lunules. Cilia white. Antennae black, ringed with white ; club whitish beneath ; 

 head and body blackish-brown above, white beneath ; palpi with some stiif black hairs. 



Female, above and below, like the male, but the bands above are composed of 

 larger orange spots, and on the underside the ground colour is darker, and all the 

 markings larger and more prominent. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1^ to 1 -^q inches. 



Larva. — Pale green, with a brownish-purple medio-dorsal stripe and faint pale 

 lateral stripes ; each segment has two wart-like eminences with projecting white bristles ; 

 the ventral surface is pale green with whitish bristles ; the claspers are semi-transparent 

 and pale yellow in colour ; the legs are spotted with black ; when full-grown it is about 

 half an inch in length and has the usual Lycsena shape ; its food-plant is the Storkbill 

 [Erodium cicutarium). 



Pupa. — Has the usual Lycsena form, pale yellow in colour, with a green tinge, with 

 a dorsal stripe of reddish-purple ; it is spun up among the dry leaves of Erodium and 

 Artemisia (Lang). 



Habitat. — The Himalayas, throughout Europe, Asia Minor, Kouldja, Askold and 

 Amurland. 



Distribution. — de Niceville records it from Simla, Kashmir, Ladak, Kumaou, 

 Cheena, Doherty from Naini Tal, Bingham from Beluchistan, Mackinnon and de 

 Niceville from Mussuri, Leslie and Evans from Chitral, and it is in our collection 

 from Solon, Simla. 



PLEBEIUS IRIS. 



Plate 643, figs. 1, ^ , la, 9 , lb, ^ . 



Lycsena iris, Staudinger, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1886, p. 207. Grum-Grshiniailo, Rom. Mem. Lep. iv. 

 p. 378, pi. 7, fig. 8 (1890). Leslie and E^-ans, Journ. Bo. Nat, Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 672. 

 Bingham, Eauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 337 (woodcut) (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich silky purple-brown ; both wings with terminal 

 Vjlack line and black lunule at the end of the cell. Himlwing with a very indistinct 

 sub-terminal series of blackish spots, and sometimes indications of a series close to the 

 margin, the two nearest the anal angle less obscure than the others, and occasionally 



