1884.] Species of Asiatic Diurnal Lepidoptera. 23 



alternated with white. Underside purplish lilacine- white ; botli wings 

 with a blackish zigzag cell streak, a transverse discal zigzag duplex 

 line, and two narrow similar submarginal lines, a slender marginal line, 

 and a waved interciliary line. 



Expanse 1^^ inch. 



Hab. Mergui. In coll. Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Genus LTCiENESTHES, Moore. 

 Lyc^nesthes oeissica, n. sp. 



Male. Smaller than L. lyccenina and L. lycamhes. Upperside of 

 a similar purpurascent blue. Underside pale purpurascent greyish- 

 brown. Both wings with similar, but more regularly disposed, markings. 

 On the hindwing the subbasal costal black spot is prominent, but the 

 subbasal black spot — so conspicuous in the above species — is absent, the 

 entire exterior margin being uniformly marked. 



Expanse -^ inch. 



Hab. Orissa. In coll. Indian Museum, Calcutta, and F. Moore. 



Ltc^nesthes merguiana, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside violet-blue : hindwing with two indistinct small 

 anal blackish spots and a larger subanal spot. Underside dull greyish- 

 brown ; forewing with a transverse antemedial pale-bordered band, a 

 short band at end of the cell, and a broken discal band, two submarginal 

 pale lunular lines : hindwing with a pale-bordered subbasal band, one 

 at end of the cell, and a broken curved discal band ; two submarginal pale 

 sinuous lines enclosing a small anal and a large oval subanal black spot, 

 both surmounted by a yellow lunule and speckled with a few metallic- 

 blue scales. 



Expanse -^o inch. 



Hab. Mergui. In coll. Indian Museum, Calcutta, and F. Moore. 



A much smaller species than L. hengalensis. Distinguished from it, 

 on the underside, in the forewing having the antemedial pale-bordered 

 band," and in the hindwing in the more irregular and zigzag pale bands, 

 and the large subanal spot. It is also distinct from L. lyccena. 



Genus Lyc^na, Fabr. 

 Lyc^na chamanica, n. sp. 



Female. Upperside lavender-blue ; extreme outer margin of fore- 

 wing pale dusky-brown : hindwing with pale dusky-brown costal and 



