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with a sixth white spot in the middle of the costa ; a series of pale white augulated 

 marks on the outer margin. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body 

 blackish with blue pubescence. 



Female. Dark chocolate-brown. Fureiuing with four large square subtermiual 

 orange spots above the hinder angle, sometimes with indications of a fifth. Huuhvhii/ 

 with a complete sub-terminal row of similar spots, the second and third the largest, 

 decreasing in size upwards. Underside like the male, but the colour on both wings 

 paler, the outer marginal space tinged with pale blue on the forewing, some brownish 

 suffusion on the interior portion of the wing, and the discal row of white spots with 

 more prominent dark central dots. Hindu-ing similar to the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ lj*o^, $ ly^^- inches. 



Habitat.— N.W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — The type came from Kunawar, it has been recorded from Simla 

 aud Tehri Gurhwal. Moore also records it from Kashmir and Narkunda ; and it is in 

 our collection from Kunawur and Pangi. 



LYCJINA GALATHEA. 



Plate 642, figs. 1, $ , U, ? , lb, $ . 



Lijcxna Galathea, Blanchard, in Jacq. Voy. Iiid. iv. p. 21, pi. 1, figs. 5, 6, ^ (1844). de Niceville, 



Butt, of India, iii. p. 82 (1890). Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1898, p. 379. Leslie and Evans, id. 1903, p. 673. Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, 



Butt. ii. p. 348 (1907). 

 Poliiommntus gnlntJiea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 271 ; id. Sci. Res. Second Yark. Miss. Lep. 



p. 6 (1879). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside of a beautiful azure-blue colour. Foreicing with the 

 costal line black, marginal line black with the colour running in shortly on the veins. 

 Cilia white with a grey line in it. Underside. Forewing grey, pale on the upper parts, 

 the lower portions smeared with brown in the outer parts of the interspaces ; a discal 

 row of six black spots edged with white, the two lowest geminate, the third and fourth 

 linear, the fifth oblique, the sixth small, the seventh minute and placed a little inwards 

 below the costa ; a thin lunular line edged with white at the end of the cell ; base of 

 wing with blue iridescence. Hindicing blue-green densely irrorated with darker blue- 

 green on the basal portion ; a white lunular line at the end of the cell, and a discal 

 well-curved row of six pale white spots in regular order. Antennse black, ringed with 

 white ; head and body blackish above, covered with blue hairs ; white below. 



Female. Upperside dark brown, almost blackish-brown. Forewing with three 

 subterminal dark orange spots above the hinder angle, decreasing in size upwards. 



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