LYC2EmNM. 7 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackish-brown, all the interior portion of both wings 

 thickly covered with metallic blue scales which in some lights look purple-blue and in 

 others purple-green, leaving the borders as if with broad even blackish bands, the 

 extent of the blue scaling, however, varies somewhat in different specimens. Under- 

 side. Forewing dark brownish-grey, darker on the outer marginal portion ; a black 

 lunule edged with white at the end of the cell, an even discal series of six black spots 

 edged with white, the lowest geminate, the three upper ones curving inwards below 

 the costa, some obscure white angular marks on the outer margin ; the base of the 

 wing thickly suffused with blue scales. Hlndwing blue-green, darker towards the base ; 

 a white lunule at the end of the cell, four white spots in an even curve in the middle of 

 the disc, and a fifth white spot on the middle of the costa ; veins rather prominent. 



Female. Upperside dark purple-brown without any markings ; a slender black 

 marginal line to both wings and a black costal line on the forewing. Underside. 

 Forewing suflFused with pale chestnut-brown, the outer margin with large pale white 

 spots joined together, making a rather broad whitish marginal band, some blue suffusion 

 at the base. Hindwing dull pale blue-green with some pale greyish suffusion on the 

 costal parts; markings on both wings as in the male. Cilia white. Antennpe black, 

 ringed with white ; head and body black above with some blue pubescence, below 

 white. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1^, $ 1 j-% inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Eecorded from Chitral, Lahoul and Ladak ; and it is in our 

 collection from Dras, 



LYCJINA METALLICA. 



Plate 041, figs. 3, (J, 3a, ? , 3b, ? . 



Lycsena metallica, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 283, pi. 35, figs. 7,8, (J , 9, 9 (1865). Moore, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 247. de Niceville, Butt, of ladia, iii. p. 83 (1890). 

 Lycsena galathea, Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 348 (1907). 



Imago.— Male. Upperside, both wings dilute violaceous-cyaneous, a whitish striga 

 before the cilia, outwardly powdered with fuscous. Forewing with the tips of the veins 

 and the margin increasingly hindward. Hindwing with the costal border and the 

 external margin fuscous. Underside. Forewing very pale hoary-brownish at the base 

 and at the apex ; the hindwing entirely metallic bluish-greenish. Forewing with a 

 rounded spot. Hindwing with a litura on the discocellulars, and a bent fascia of 

 rounded spots beyond the disc whitish, broader in the forewing and in the hindwing 

 joined to a fuscous shadow (Felder). 



Female. Upperside brown. Forewing with the basal two-thirds. Hindwing with 



