1:2 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Handbook Lep. ii. p. 87 (1895). Tutt, Ent. Record, vii. pp. 220, 340 (1895) ; id. Brit. Lep. x. 



p. 159 (1909). 

 Lyceena, de Niceville (part), Butt, of India, iii. p. 66 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, ii. 



p. 334 (1907). 

 Cyaniris, Dalman, Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. xxxvii. p. 63 (1816). Type, semiargits, Eottenburg. 

 Nomiades, Hiibner, Verz, bek. Schmett. p. 67 (1816). 

 Aricia, R, and L, Jena, Allg. Lit. Zeit. i. p. 280 (1817). Prout, Ent. Record, xxi. p. 156 (1909). 



Type, astrarchc, Bergstrasser. 

 Vacciniina, Tutt, Brit. Butt. x. p. 154 (1908). Type, optilete, Knoch. 

 Albulina, Tutt, I.e. Type, plieretes, Eversmann. 

 Laliorina, Tutt, I.e. p. 55. Type, orbitulus, Esper, 



Structure and ueuration very similar to Lycsena. Genitalia characterised by its 

 length and slenderness of both dorsal process and the upright portion of the hook ; 

 the dorsal process is also curved in such a way that, when the parts are flattened, as 

 occurs when mounting them on a slide, the dorsal armature has the closest resemblance 

 to the harp-like tale of the lyre-bird, or perhaps we ought to say, to the conventional 

 harp that that tail so closely imitates (Chapman). 



Type, Argus, Linnaeus. 



PLEBEIUS LOEWII. 

 Plate 642, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, ? . 



Lycsena loewU, Zeller, Isis, 1847, p. 9. Herrick-Schafer, Schmett. Eur. i. figs. 434 to 437 (1849). 



Lang, Butt, of Europe, p. 141 (1884). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 79, pi. 26, fig. 167, $ 



(1890). Leslie and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. See. 1903, p. 672. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. 



India, Butt. ii. p. 343 (1907). 

 Lycsena empyrea, Freyer, Neuere Beitr. vi. pi. 573, fig. 1 (1852). Gerhard, Mon. Lye. pi. 17, 



figs. 2, a to c (1853). 

 Lycsena cliamanica, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 23. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 79(1890). 



Imago.— Male. Upperside purplish-blue. Forewing with the costal and outer 

 marginal lines black, the latter with a little black suffusion and short blackish streaks 

 running in on the veins and in the interspaces. Ilindwing with a l^lack marginal line, 

 a series of indistinct subterminal black marks with a fine white line between them. 

 Cilia white with a black basal band. Underside grey, markings black edged with 

 white. Forewing with a lunule at the end of the cell, a discal series of six spots, the 

 lowest linear, the second and third oblique, the upper three close together. Ilindwing 

 with four sub-basal spots, a lunule at the end of the cell, and a discal series of six 

 .spots, the lowest lunular, the next placed inwards in a line with the first spot and the 

 cell lunule, forming the end of a complete curve with the next three, the last two of 

 this curve, being the fourth and fifth spots of the series, close together, the six 



