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LYCm^ID^. 



discocellular ucrvules slightly concave ; lower discoidal nervulefrom tlieir middle ; discoidal 

 cell long, somewhat narrow, extending to more than half the wing ; second median nervule 

 emitted about one seventh before the end of the cell, first median at nearly one half before 

 the end ; submedian nervure slightly recurved. 

 " Hind iving oval ; apex very acute ; costal nervure curved at the base, extending to the apex ; 

 first subcostal nervule emitted at one fourth before the end of the cell ; upper discocellular 

 nervule the shorter, outwardly oblique, lower discocellular straight, erect, discoidal nervule 

 from their middle ; discoidal cell rather short; second median nervule emitted from imme- 

 diately before the end of the cell ; first median at one third before the end ; submediau 

 and internal nervures straight. 



'• UoDY 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 ; antenncp with a lengthened spatular club. 



" Type, C. argiolus, Linnaeus." (Moore, I. c.) 



Cyaniris albocaeruleus. (Plate XXXI. fig. 13, <s .) 



Polyommaius ulbocceruk'u.s, ^Sloore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1879^ p. 139. 

 Cyaniris albocceruleus, de Niccville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. lii. pt. 2, p. 7\, pi. i. figs. 4 

 (male), 4 a (female) (1883) ; Butt. Lid. iii. p. 98 (1890). 



" Male. Uppcrside : both wings pearly white. Fore wing with the outer margin broadly at the 

 apex, and dccreasingly 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 witliiii the outer black band pale clear shining blue, thus leaving a patch of the 

 white ground-colour on the disc of the wing only. Hind wing with the base and abdominal 

 half of the wing irrorated with very pale shining blue ; the spots of the underside showing 

 through sliglitly on the disc; an indistinct marginal scries of dusky spots, and a fine ante- 

 ciliary black line. Underside : both wings white, slightly tinted with blue. Fore wing with 

 a slender blackish discocellular 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. Hind wing 

 with ten or eleven smnll dusky spots, of which three are subbasal, the rest arranged irre- 

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



" Female. Upperside : fore wing with the costal and outer borders very broadly dusky black, the 

 discal patch wliitc, the inner margin broadly irrorated w ith blue. Hind wing willi the discal 

 area lictween the nervuk's l)luiHh white, all the rest dxisky ; a submarginal series of oval 

 dusky spots, and the marginal black line. Underside : both wings exactly as in the male. 

 Cilia white on both sides in both sexes. 



" KxpnnHo, M2-1 nO, $ inch." {de NiceviUe, I c.) 



I took specimens of this species iu 8atsuma during May 1886, and 1 liave 

 rocriv(;(l si)eciinens frf)in Oiiiei-slian, Wa-slian, and Cliia-kou-lio in AVestein 

 Cliina, which do not difh r from Sikkim exani])l(>s. There were also specimens 

 in Tryer's collection from the Loociioo Islands. 



