LYG^NIN^. 



Habitat. — Naga Hills, Western China. 



Distribution. — The type came from Moupin ; it is commonly distributed in 

 W. China ; Doherty procured it from the Naga Hills, and it is in our collection from 

 the same locality. Watson records it from the Chin Hills. 



Genus SCOLITANTIDES. 



Scolitantides, H bner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 68 (1816). Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B.M. p. 167 (1869). 

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

 p. 334 (1907). 



Has a peculiar type of coloration, the fringe of the wings being alternated with 

 black and white, and the spots of the underside large and black ; venation as in 

 Lyceena. 



Genitalia. — Harpagones or clasps not Plebeid ; very broad, exceptionally so, and 

 short, suddenly excavated from the lower apical half and extended into a long point 

 downwards. Cingula or girdle deeply bent over the harpagones. Tegumen highly 

 excised in front apex, raised into a high saddle at the back, the whole tegumen 

 extended right beyond the harpagones. Falces or hooks much reduced, being merely 

 two slightly curved points in the rear of the tegumen. Furca long, waved ; sedoeagus 

 broad, exceptionally short, being only about twice its own width (Bethune-Baker). 



Type, orion, Pallas. 



SCOLITANTIDES BATON. 



Plate 640, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, $. 



Papilio baton, Bergstrasser, Nomencl. ii. p. 18, vol. iii. pi. 9, figs. 6 to 8 (1779). 



Lycsena baton, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 889. Lang, Butt, of Europe, p. 109, pi. 24, fig. 2, ^ ^ 



(1884). 

 Papilio hylastor, Bergstrasser, Nomencl. ii. pi. 47, figs. 7, 8 (1779). 

 Polyommatus vicrama, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 505, pi. 31, fig. 6, 9 • 

 Scolitantides cashnirensis, Moore, I.e. 1874, p. 272. Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 408. 

 Lycsena hylas, de Niceville (nee SchifF.), Butt, of India, iii. p. 84 (1890). Leslie and Evans, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1893, p. 673. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 351 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside greyish-blue, both wings with a slender lunular black 

 line at the end of the cell, and black marginal line with a little inner blackish suffusion, 

 a series of sub-terminal blackish spots on the hindwing, and indications of a very slender 

 white line close to the marginal line. Cilia white, with blackish spots opposite the vein 

 ends. Underside grey, with a slight bluish tinge with a few blue scales at the base, 

 markings black, prominent. Forewing with a spot inside the cell, a short lunular 

 mark at the end of the cell, a discal series of seven spots, much curved outwards 



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