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etc., from May to August ; amongst them is a whole row of very small 

 specimens from Varsaminor (Serafschan). 



d. var. sutleja, Moore, " Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.," p. 246 (1882).*— Near to L. 

 boisduvalii and L. ariana. Upperside darker, glossy blue, the marginal band 

 narrower ; no dusky streaks ascending the veins ; the marginal spots on hindwing 

 less prominent. Underside lilacine ochreous-grey, darkest on hindwing; markings 

 similar to L. boisduvalii (i.e., eroides, Friv.), except that the spot within the cell is 

 further from the disco-cellular lunule, this spot being situated inward of the end 

 of lower median vein ; this discal row of spots are more linearly disposed, the 

 marginal spots having their red inner borders more slenderly black-lined ; hind- 

 wing with a black centre to the disco-cellular lunule ; upper discal spots nearer 

 together, thus giving a wider space between the upper one and basal spot: the red 

 borders to marginal spots are somewhat broader and more slenderly black- 

 streaked. Expanse 1 ^ inch. Hab. Kangra district. In coll. British Museum 

 (Moore). 



There are two specimens from Moore's collection in the British 

 Museum coll. One marked " type " in his writing is hardly distin- 

 guishable from a large specimen of P. icarux from southern or central 

 Italy, except that the upperside is somewhat darker and the black 

 spots at the edge of the hindwing rather larger. The other does not 

 greatly resemble this in colour, size, or shape ; it is much smaller, 

 the wings narrower, and the tint paler and much greener, it has alto- 

 gether the appearance of belonging to the eras group. This, unfor- 

 tunately is the only one in the regular collection, the other (type) 

 being amongst rejected specimens. It has lost its body, and, therefore, 

 the examination of the genitalia is impossible. Both specimens came 

 from Kangra. With the type is placed a 2 labelled " Jhela Drosh. 

 Chitral. Capt. S. W. Harris," with a fine row of orange spots on all 

 four wings above, but quite obviously 2 icarus, and scarcely, if at all, 

 differing from some south Italian specimens. Swinhoe gives (Lep. 

 Ind., no. lxxxvi., p. 26) sutleja as a synonym of ariana, Moore, no 

 doubt on the faith of Moore's specimen in the general collection 

 (which, however, does not agree with the original description), and 

 possibly not having seen the type in the drawer of rejected specimens. 

 Staudinger (probably unacquainted with the type) gives it [Cat., 3rd 

 ed., p. 84) with a ?, as a synonym of pseuderos. De Niceville (Butts, 

 bid., iii., p. 73), giving it as a separate species, says that he has a 

 specimen named by Moore which only differs from stoliczkana by the 

 browner underside and much more prominent outer margins. The 

 spot in the discal cell in this specimen is not placed as in Moore's 

 description, " but is distinctly exterior to the base of the first median 

 nervure." Bingham gives (Fn. Brit. Lid., ii., p. 341) it as a var. of 

 stoliczkana, differing only by the ochraceous edgings to the slender 

 black lunules on the underside of the hindwings. Moore seems to 

 have named specimens as sutleja with even less care than ariana, but, 

 even so, the comparison with stoliczkana suggests that neither of 

 these authors was acquainted with Felder's original illustration of the 

 latter, with its exceedingly characteristic underside, to which sutleja 

 bears no resemblance. Swinhoe has described (Lep. Ind., no. lxxxvi., 

 p. 25) stoliczkana from Felder's types in the Tring Museum, and very 

 justly remarks that these can never have been seen by those who, like 

 de Niceville, regard this species as a dwarf form of ariana, or, like 

 Bingham, sink ariana in stoliczkana (Wheeler). 



* No synonymy seems possible, us no one else appears to refer to the type form 

 under this name. 



