U LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



lunules and an indistinct series of brown marks between them, those on the hindwiuw 

 containing some pale blue-green metallic scales. Cilia white with grey marks at the 

 vein ends. 



Female. Upperside brown with a few dull blue scales at the base, and on the 

 abdominal margin of the hindwing ; terminal line black and slender. Underside as in 

 the male, but in the type-specimen the ground colour is much darker, markings similar. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body black above with blue hairs, white 

 lieneath. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1^\ inches. 



Habitat. — Baltistan, Beluchistan, Ladak, Kashmir. 



Distribution. — The types in the B. M. are from Kashmir ; there is one example 

 from Ladak, and a fine series of both sexes from Kiris, 8,000 feet elevation. 



SECTION II.— Aricia. 



Genitalia has a comparatively very fine hook to the dorsal process, and possesses 

 on the body of the clasp, in a longitudinal line, a number of rough spinous processes. 

 Type, astrarche, Bergstrasser. 



PLEBEIUS ASTRARCHE. 



Plate 642, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, ? , 4b, ? . 



Papilio astrarche, Bergstrasser, Nomencl. iii. p. 4, pi. 49, figs. 7, 8 (1779). 



Lyceena astrarche, Staudinger, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xiv. p. 240 (1878). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, 



p. 889. Lang, Butt, of Europe, p. 114, pi. 24, fig. 9, <?, $ (1884). Alpheraky, Hor. Soc. 



Ent. Ross. xvi. p. 386 (1881). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. l;33. Bingham, 



Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 337 (1907). 

 Papilio allotis, Hubner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 988 to 992 (1827-1841). 

 Lijcxna astrarche, var. allous, Lang, Butt, of Europe, p. 115 (1884). 

 Lycsena medon, de Niceville (nee Hufnagel), Butt, of India, iii. p. 69 (1890). Mackinnon and 



de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 379. Leslie and Evans, id. 1903, p. 671. 

 Polyommatus nazira, Moore, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 504, pi. 31, fig. 4. 

 Lycsena nazira, Moore, I.e. 1882, p. 246. 

 Cupido nazira, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 368. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside satin brown. Forewing with a black spot at the end 

 of the cell ; a terminal series of blackish spots, and a sub-terminal series of orange 

 lunules, sometimes one and sometimes both obsolete. Hindicing with a similar 

 terminal and sub-terminal series more prominent, a fine black marginal line to 

 both win OS. Underside dark grey with some blue scales at the base, markings 



