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cnejus, and is of opiuion that C. thescus, Swinhoe, C. ella, C. coutracta, and 
C. hajpalina, Butler, are not specifically distinct fi:oni that species. 
Generally distributed throughout the Indo-Australian Kegion, its range 
extending into Western China. 
Genus POLYOMMATUS. 
Polyommatus, Latreille, Sounerat's Buffon, xiv. p. 116 (1805) ; Aloore, Lep. Ceyl. i. 
p. 93 (1881) ; Distant, Rliop. Malay, p. 230 (1884) ; de Nicuville, Butt. lud. iii. 
p. 203 (1890). 
"FoKE ■WTNG triangular, costa sliglitly arched, exterior margin oblique aud sUghtly convex 
towards the apex, posterior margin straight ; costal vein extending to half length of wing ; 
first aud second subcostal branches short, first emitted at nearly one half before end of the 
cell, second at one fifth, third bifid and emitted close to end of the cell, fourth at one half 
from third, and terminating at the apex, fifth from end of the cell ; discocellulars nearly 
erect, of equal length, radial from their middle ; cell broad, extending to a little beyond half 
length of wing ; upper median from end of the cell, middle branch at one fifth and lower at 
one third before end of the cell ; submedian nearly straight. 
*' Hind wiKG bluntly oval; furnished with a single slender tail; costal vein much arched from 
the base ; first subcostal branch curved, emitted at one fourth before end of the ceU ; 
discoceUulars very slender, upper slightly concave, radial from their middle ; two upper 
median branches from end of cell, lower branch at one third before the end ; submedian 
straight, internal recurved, short. 
" Body stouter than in Lampides. 
" Palin porrect, long, slender, flattened, fringed beneath. Antennal club stout, grooved. 
"Legs slender. 
" Type P. bceticus." {Moore, 1. c.) 
Polyommatus bceticus. 
Papilio bceticus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. p. 789 (1767). 
Polyommatus bceticus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 633 (1823) ; Distant, Rhop. Malay, 
p. 230, pi. XX. tigs. 8 d, 1 ? (1884) ; de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 204 (1890). 
Lycmia bcetica, Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 99, pi. xxii. fig. 2 (1884) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. 
p. 17, pi. iv. fig. 12 (1886). 
" Male. Wings above pale violaceous ; anterior wings with the costal margin narrowly, and the 
outer margin more broadly pale fuscous ; posterior wings with the costal and posterior 
margins pale fuscous, a large black marginal spot between second and third median 
nervules, and two contiguous smaller black spots at anal angle. Wings beneath pale 
brownish ochraceous, with the following linear brownish fasciie margined with greyish : — 
anterior wings with two crossing centre and two near end of cell, two (considerably 
fractured), crossing wing between end of cell and outer margin, commencing near the fourth 
subcostal nervule and terminating at submedian nervure, two submarginal (the innermost 
