340 LTCENTD.E. 
applies to specimens from Kiukiaug which were taken by Maries and are in 
the National Collection at South Kensington. 
The only specimens that I have are an example of each sex taken by my 
collectors at Chang-yang. The upper surface of the male exactly coiTesponds 
with pontis from Sikkim, and the female seems to agree with the description 
of sinensis, the type of which was probably a female also. 
In MoUer's collection there is a good series of pontis, which includes one 
female example, taken in Sikkim. The female has the wings broadly 
bordered -vvith black, and the disc is bright bluish purple, with a greenish 
reflection at the base. I can see no greenish reflection in any of the males 
from Sikkim, which are all of a bright purple in one light, and brown in 
another. The markings on the under surface are also somewhat variable. 
I cannot, however, find any character by which sinensis can be specifically 
separated from pontis, and can therefore only regard the former as a local 
race of the latter. 
Genus NIPHANDA. 
Niphanda, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 572. 
" Palpi verj- long, porrect, extending much beyond the head, flattened ; second joint fusiform, 
squamose; third joint slender, naked, slightly thickened vertically at the tip. Antennae 
(broken). Body robust. Legs slender, minutely squamose. Wings broad, strong : fore 
wing elongated, trigonal, costa arched ; hind margin extending much beyond posterior wing ; 
exterior margin slightly convex towards posterior angle, which is acute ; median vein with 
four branches, the second and fourth arising at the extremity of the cell, the third starting 
from the second near its extremity before the apex : hind wing ai'ched along anterior margin ; 
outer angle much rounded, abdominal margin long and nearly straight, anal angle acute. 
Near to Chrnsophanus." {Moore, I. c.) 
Niphanda fasca. (Plate XXXI. fig. 17, ? var.) 
$ . Thecla fusca, Bremer & Grey, Schinett. N. China's, p. 9 (1853) ; Meuetries, Cat. 
Mus. Petr. i. pi. iv. fig. 5 (1855). 
^ . Ambhjpodia fusca, Bremer, Bull. Acad. Petr. iii. p. 469 (1861). 
Amblypodia dispai-, Bremer, Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 24, pi. iii. fig. 4, (J (1864). 
Polyommatus fuscus, Oberthiir, Etud. d'Entom. ii. p. 20, pi. iv. fig. 5 (1876). 
Niphanda fusca, Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. p. 13, pi. iv. fig. 2, ? (1886). 
Thecla fusca, var. lasurea, Graeser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 74. 
" Alse anticse maris supra coerulescenti-violaceo-micantes, subtus fusco-griseae ; maculis, fasciis 
lunulisque marginalibus fuscis, albido-annulatis. 32 m." {Bremer, Lep. Ost-Sib.) 
"Alls supra: fuscis, antieis nigro-macitlatis ; posticis maculis duobus nigris ad angulum ani; — 
