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inwards, in a line with the seventh spot below the middle of the costa, and also 

 another costal spot near the apex of the wing ; both wings with a subterminal series 

 of brown spots, enclosed by a lunular pale brown line, the first, second and fourth 

 from the anal angle with metallic blue scales, the first three bordered on their inner 

 sides with orange-ochreous ; a fine marginal brown line and grey cilia with a brown 

 basal band. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body black above with a 

 little blue pubescence, white beneath. 



Female. Upperside brown. Foreicing with a blackish spot at the end of the 

 cell, a post-discal transverse double series of pale whitish spots, the outer series being 

 obscure, a marginal blackish line with a very indistinct and very fine inner whitish 

 line, nindwing with a post-discal series of more or less obscure whitish spots, a 

 subterminal series of blackish spots, commencing with a small pair close together near 

 the anal angle, the next two the largest, the others more obscure and decreasing in 

 size upwards, all edged outwardly with white, and the first four crowned inwardly with 

 orange, a marginal blackish line, and cilia of both wings as in the male. Underside as 

 in the male, the markings larger and more prominent. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? ly% inches. 



Habitat. — Beluchistan, Chitral, Persia, Asia Minor. 



Distribution. — Eecorded by Leslie and Evans from Chitral, by de Niceville 

 from Quetta and Khojak ; in our collection from Gunduk in the Sarakola Pass, 

 Beluchistan. 



PLEBEIUS SAMUDRA. 



Plate 642, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, i . 



Polyommatus samudra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 574, pi. 67, fig. 2, ,J . 



Lycsena samudra, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 78 (1890). Leslie and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat, 

 Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 673. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 347 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside lavender-blue, both wings with slender terminal black 

 line, in most examples (but not in the type-specimen) with a little black suff'usiou 

 inside the line, thickest at the apex of each wing ; some dull blue scaling at the base. 

 Cilia snow-white. Underside grey, spots black, ringed with whitish. Forewing with 

 a short lunule at the end of the cell, a discal even series of five spots, with a slight 

 outward curve, the lowest composed of two small spots joined together, the next the 

 largest, the next three more or less angular in shape. Hindwing with three sub-basal 

 spots, a pale short slender lunular mark at the end of the cell,- a discal series of eight 

 spots, six of them in an even and well-curved row from the middle of the costa to the 

 second interspace, the other two outwards, level with each other, near the abdominal 

 margin of the wing ; both wings with slender terminal brown line, sub-terminal brown 



