8 LEPIBOPTEEA INDICA. 



the interior area with blue iridescent scales, three sub-terminal square spots (now faded) 

 orano;e-ochreous above the hinder auQ;le of the forewino; and a series of similar sub- 

 terminal spots on the hindwing, decreasing in size upwards. Cilia of both wings 

 white. Underside. Forewing grey, shining, some blue-green scales at the base ; a 

 narrow spot at the end of the cell, and seven in a transverse row in the disc, all whitish 

 with brown centres. Hindicing green, almost emerald green, veins and outer margin 

 speckled with brownish (apparently because the green scales are rubbed off them), a 

 white lunular spot at the end of the cell and a discal, evenly curved row of large round, 

 white spots. Antennse black, ringed with white ; head and body blackish-brown above, 

 grey beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ,? ? lyo iJiches. 



Habitat. — Ladak. 



The description and figures of the male are taken from Felder's description and 

 figures, the type being lost ; the blue colour of the upperside is undoubtedly too 

 vivid ; the description and figures of the female are taken from the actual type-specimen 

 kindly lent from the Tring Museum ; the type-specimen is a female as stated by Felder, 

 and not a male as supposed by de Niceville. There can be no doubt that Felder's 

 figures 7 and 8 represent the male and his figure 9 represents the female, though the 

 blue coloration of the interior of the wings of this figure is, as it is in the male figure, 

 much too vivid, the colour of this female is really brown with blue iridescence, very 

 diflicult to represent in a colom-ed figure. Bingham altogether misidentified the species, 

 sinking fig. 9 to omjyhisa, and figs. 7 and 8 to galathea. He never could have seen 

 Felder's type. 



LYCiENA NYCULA. 



Plate 6-11, figs. 4, (J , 4a, ? , -lb, J . 



PoUjommatus nyciila, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 186.5, p. 503, pi. 31, fig. 3, $ . 

 Lyceena nycula, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. 1888, p. 272, pi. 94-, $ . 



Lycsena galathea, de Niceville (part). Butt, of India, iii. p. 82 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. 

 India, Butt. ii. p. 348 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violet-blue. Forewing with the costal line 

 blackish, and both wings with the outer marginal line blackish, with fine streaks 

 from it running in on the veins ; cilia white with a pale grey line in it, hardly visible ; 

 some blue scales at the base of both wings. Underside pale brownish-grey. Forewing 

 with a white spot at the end of the cell, and a discal even row of white spots, 

 containing minute, central, grey dots, outwardly curved above its middle and 

 inwardly curved below it, some indistinct angulated whitish marks on the outer 

 margin which under the lens are blue-tinted. Hindwing pale blue-green, a thin white 

 lunule at the end of the cell, and a curved row of five pale white spots in the disc. 



