1883.] L. de Niceville — On neio and little-known Rbopalocera. 71 



of the cell, and the outer margin, widely, especially at the apex, black ; a 

 patch of pure white scales on the disc outside the cell between the lower 

 discoidal and first median nervules ; a black disco-cellular streak. Hindwing 

 with the costal and outer margins broadly black, including a submarginal 

 lunular series ol' bluish marks, obsolete in some specimens except at the 

 anal angle ; a patch of pure white scales above the discoidal nervule. 

 Underside, hoth wings white, slightly tinted with blue. Forewing with a 

 disco-cellular blackish streak, a discal series of six large very irregularly 

 shaped and placed spots, a submarginal lunular line and marginal linear 

 spots blackish ; a black anteciliary line. Hindwing with three subbasal 

 spots, a disco-cellular streak, and irregular discal series of eight to ten 

 spots : marginal markings as in the forewing. Cilia white on both wings 

 on both sides. 



Three males of this species were taken by me on the Darjiling cart-road 

 at about 5,000 feet elevation in October. There is a single male in Mr. Otto 

 Moller's collection taken on Senchal, Sikkim, at about 8,000 feet elevation, 

 in August, and another taken at a low elevation in December. 



8. Cyaniris alboc^euleus. (Plate I, figs. 4, <?; 4a, $.) 

 Folyommatus albocceruleus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 139. 

 Hab. Simla ; Deyra Doon ; Nepal ; Sikkim. 

 Expanse : ^,1*2 and 1'4 ; ? , 1*35 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside pure pearly white. Forewing with 

 the outer margin broadly at the apex and decreasingly towards the hinder 

 angle dusky black, this black border being reduced to a very fine black line 

 at the hinder angle ; the base, broadly along the costa and inner margin 

 and within the outer black band pale clear shining blue, thus leaving a 

 patch of the white ground-colour on the disc of the wing only. Sindwing 

 with the base and abdominal half of the wing irrorated with very pale 

 shining blue ; the spots of the underside showing through slightly on the 

 disc ; an indistinct marginal series of dusky spots, and a fine anteciliary 

 black line. Underside, both wings white, slightly tinted with blue. 

 Forewing with a slender blackish disco-cellular streak, a curved discal series 

 of five or six elongate spots, and a marginal series of very indistinct small 

 spots, obsolete at the hinder angle. Hindwing with ten or eleven small 

 dusky spots, of which three are subbasal, the rest arranged irregularly across 

 the disc ; a submarginal series of small spots, and a fine marginal black line. 

 Female with the costal and outer borders very broadly dusky black 

 the discal patch white, the inner margin broadly irrorated with blue. 

 Hindwing with the discal area between the nervules bluish- white, all 

 the rest dusky ; a submarginal series of oval dusky spots, and the marginal 



