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so on the forevving and more broadly on the hindwiug ; the cilia is similar on the 

 underside. Underside, both wings of a greyish-brown tint, very much lighter. An 

 extremely fine bordering line runs along the exterior margin of both wings, sometimes 

 very indistinct in the forewing. Forewing traversed at nearly three millimetres from 

 the outer margin by an interrupted series of white, irregular small streaks, with one 

 whitish lunule placed above the first nervure and placed more towards the interior of 

 the wing. This last disappears entirely in some specimens. A small streak, or rather 

 a small whitish dot, is found generally in the discoidal cell. Hindwing faintly dusted 

 with white scales near its first half. The disc is sprinkled with more or less large 

 lunules, concave towards the base, and generally shaded with blackish interiorly, and 

 also with some white streaks not far from the base, but the whole is so irregular and so 

 different in each individual specimen that a figure alone could give a sufficiently exact 

 idea of it. All along the exterior margin of both wings there is a sub-marginal series 

 of small black dots, which are round and bordered with white on their interior side. 

 These dots are very distinct on the hindwing, but on the forewing they are more or less 

 obliterated, and sometimes they completely disappear. The species seems to be 

 thoroughly isolated in the genus Lycsena, and must take its place in the small group 

 formed by some very heterogeneous species, L. rhymnus, Eversmann, L. tengstroemi, 

 Erschoff", and L. antliracias, Christoph. 



It was on the 13th of May that I took some very old and worn specimens at an 

 altitude of about 3,500 feet on one of the out-jutting spurs of the Tian-Chian. The 

 species was flying about a bush which looked like a Carpinus, but which was certainly 

 different from that genus. 



It is very probable that my description would be more detailed and more exact if 

 I had some fresher specimens. Out of the twelve specimens which I brought away 

 with me, I could make use of only three for the purpose of description, and even these 

 were not good. (Alpheraky.) 



My knowledge of this species is confined to a single specimen taken by 

 Lieutenant E. Y. Watson on the 21st of June, 1885, at Gunduk, which is situated in the 

 Sarakola Pass, to the N.E. of Quetta, Biluchistan. Half of this specimen has been 

 bleached and mounted for examination of the neuration. The figure shows both sides 

 of this specimen, which is in my collection, (de Niceville.) 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Kouldja, Biluchistan. 



Our figures are from Kouldja examples. 



ALLIED CHINESE AND JAPANESE SPECIES. 



NcohjcKna tengstrwmi, Lycfena tengstroemi, Erschoff, Lep. Turk. p. 11, pi. i. fig. 8 (1874). Thecla 

 tengstrwrni, Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 368 (1893). Habitat, Tura, China. 



