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figure of P. ellid is much too vivid, the metn-Uic colouring of the base of 

 the wings and the body is a very pale green. 



Lyccena wosnesenskii, Menetries, (Cat. Mus. Petr., Lep , vol. i, pp. 58, 

 and 95, no. 964, pi. iv, fig. 6 1855), is also a closely allied species, the 

 upperside being figured with the apex of the forewing very acute, the figure of 

 the underside showing it quite rounded. It is recorded from "Kamtchatka." 



This species was found by me only on passes ; the female figured was 

 taken near the top of the Zoji-la on tlie Ladak side at about 11,000 feet 

 elevation on June 27th, 1879 ; on July 2nd seven specimens of both sexes 

 on the Mamyika Pass, Ladak, 13,000 feet ; and lastly, on July 3rd seven 

 more specimens on the Fotu-la, Ladak, at about the same elevation. 



The next seven species described and figured belong to the puspa 

 group of tlie genus Cyaniris of Dalman, described by Moore at page 74 of 

 his " Lepidoptera of Cejlon." As these species are all more or less closely 

 allied, a few preliminary remarks regarding them may perhaps be of inter- 

 est, and enable entomologists to separate them more easily, which remarks are 

 perhaps best embodied in a key. 



Key to the males of certain species of Cyaniris allied to puspa. 



A. Upperside without any pure white or irrorated white patches. 



C. PLACIDA. 



B. Upperside with irrorated white patches more or less prominent on both wings, 

 sometimes obsolete on the hindwing. 



a. With the black border of the forewing very narrow, not reaching the 

 hinder angle or obsolete, leaving the anteciliary blacK thread only; 

 no black border to the hindwing. 



C. DILECTUS. 



h. With the black border of the forewing broader, especially at the apex ; 

 hindwing with a somewhat narrower similar border. 

 a^. The markings on the underside small and regular. 



C. lYNTEANA. 



b^. The markings on the underside much larger and placed irregu- 

 larly. 



C. PUSPA. 



e. With the black border of the forewing a little broader still, perceptibly 

 broader in the hindwing, apex of forewing more produced than in 

 C. puspa. 



C. TBANSPECTUS. 



C. Upperside with pure white patches on both wings. 



a. A small patch on both wings, outer black margins very wide, markings 



on the underside usually exactly as in C puspa. 



C. MARGINATA. 



b. Patches large on both wings, outer black border of the forewing less wide 



than in G. marginata^ and not reaching the hinder angle ; no black 

 border to the hindwing ; markings on the underside very small and 

 regular. 



C. ALBOCJERULEUa. 



