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slender, short ; palpi porrect ; second joint pilose beneath, projecting half beyond the 

 head, third joint slender and about half its length, naked; legs slender, femora 

 slightly pilose beneath ; antennae with a lengthened spatular club. 

 Type, C. Argiolus. 



CYANIRIS AKASA (Plate 34, Fig. 5, $). 

 Polyommatus Akasa, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mas. East India Company, p. 67, pi. 1, fig. 1, la, i (1828). 



Male, Upperside white : forewing with the base, costal and exterior border to 

 ■near posterior angle broadly dusky-brown, and a very faintly indicated slender 

 discocellular streak : hindwing with the base of costal border brown, base of abdominal 

 border brownish-grey, a delicate brown outer marginal line and a row of very small 

 indistinct spots. Eemale : forewing with the brown marginal band diffused along the 

 posterior border, where it is slightly glossed with blue, the white disc also being blue- 

 glossed : hindwing with the brown costal band and exterior marginal line and spots 

 more distinct, the abdominal border also more distinctly glossed with blue. Underside 

 white : forewing with a slender blackish discocellular streak, a curved discal series of 

 five (or six) waved short Hnear streaks, and a marginal row of indistinct small spots : 

 hindwing with three subbasal black spots, and a discal curved series of irregular- 

 shaped spots. Legs with black bands ; palpi black above and black fringed beneath. 



Expanse, $ l-ft, 5 1^^ inch. 



CYANIRIS LAVENDTJLARIS (Plate 34, Fig. 6, 6a, 7, S g)- 



Polyommatus lavendularis, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 341. 



Male. Upperside dark lavender-blue, with an extremely narrow black outer 

 marginal border. Female paler, and of a purple lavender-blue : forewing with the 

 base of the costa and an outer band black : hindwing with black anterior border and 

 marginal row of prominent pale-bordered black spots. Cilia white, with inner black 

 border. Underside greyish-white : forewing with dusky-black streak at end of the 

 cell, a discal series of oblique spots, and marginal row of small spots enclosed by a 

 dentated line : hindwing with three black subbasal spots, some specimens with a 

 smaller spot at base of subcostal and another at base of lower median vein, a curved 

 series of seven discal spots, and a marginal row of spots enclosed by a dentate line. 



Expanse, $ 1^, 9 liir inch. 



Allied to P. Puspa, Horsf. ; diflFers from Java specimens above in its uniform 

 colour and narrower black borders. 



" Eastern Province. Forests and Plains. Taken in August" {Hutchison). 



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