4 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



above the middle, the two upper spots small, the second spot from the lower end 

 well inwards, the lowest spot outside on a line with the third, a sub-terminal 

 series of spots, a black marginal line and between them a row of short brown linear 

 marks. Ilindwing with four sub-basal spots in an outwardly curved row, a lunule at the 

 end of the cell, a discal series of eight spots, the upper one near the apex of the wing, 

 the next well inwards being the commencement of an outwardly highly curved row of 

 five spots, the second from the lower end well outwards, and a costal spot between the 

 upper spot and the sub-basal spot ; a sub-terminal double series of short lunules with 

 orange-ochreous between them ; a black marginal line. Cilia as on the upperside ; in 

 some examples the black spots are "encircled with pale whitish. 



Female. Upperside purplish-brown, with some blue-grey basal irrorations, the 

 lunular mark at the end of the cell obscure, some sub-terminal obscure blackish spots 

 with narrow, paler surroundings, mostly obsolete on the forewing, faintly indicated on 

 the hindwing, not visible on either wing in some examples. Cilia as in the male, but 

 the spots in it are brown. Underside as in the male. AntennsB black, ringed with 

 white ; top of head white ; some white marks on the front of the thorax ; thorax and 

 abdomen blackish above, with greyish-blue pubescence, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ,? ? 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas, Central and South-Eastern Europe, Afghanistan. 



Distribution. — Leslie and Evans record it from Chitral, Butler from Kandahar, 

 de Niceville from Ladak, Kashmir, Lahoul, Kunawur, Bingham from Beluchistan ; it is 

 ill our collection also from Kulu and Kashmir. 



ALLIED CHINESE AND JAPANESE SPECIES. 



Scolitantides orion, Papilio orion, Pallas, Reise, i. p. 471 (1771). Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. 



p. 309 (1892). Habitat, Corea, Pekin, Central Europe, Asia Minor, South Siberia, and the 



Amur. 

 Scolitantides lantij, LyciBna lanty, Oberthiir, llltud. d'Ent. xi. p. 21, pi. 7, fig. 53 (1886). Habitat, 



Chinese Thibet. 



Genus LYC^NA. 



Lycaena, Fabricius, 111. Mag. vi. p. 285 (1807). de Niceville (part), Butt, of India, iii. p. 66 (1890). 

 Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 334 (1907). 



Forewing with vein 6 from upper end of cell, 9 out of 7, the bases of 6 and 7 well 

 separated, 8 absent, 5 from the middle of discocellulars, 10 and 11 from apical half of 

 suli-costal vein, 12 at apex bent slightly towards 11. Ilmchvhiij with 3 and 4 distinctly 

 separated at base, 3 from a little before the end of the cell, 4 from the end, 7 from 



