396 LTC^NID^. 
Mr. de Niceville says : " I find that S. chandrmia is one of the most variable 
of the LycsnidEe. In the Western Himalayas, from Avhence I have the 
fewest specimens, it appears to be fairly constant, the catenulated bands of 
the underside narrow and clearly defined. It is in Sikkim and Assam that 
the species varies so much. Here typical chandrana is occasionally met 
■with, but the more common form has the bands of the underside much 
broader, often more or less confluent, very prominent, and the ground-colour 
much darker. The females show extraordinary variability on the upperside. 
Some specimens are entirely glossy fuliginous black, with some obscure 
irrorated white patches between the veins near the outer margin of the hind 
wino' ; others have a small whity-ochreous patch on the fore wing, with the 
white on the hind wing more developed ; others have a large whity- 
ochreous patch on the fore wing, the outer half of the hind vdng also white ; 
lastly Mr. MoUer possessed a very aberrant Sikkim specimen in which there 
is a bright ochreous somewhat large oval patch on the disc of the fore wing, 
the hind wing unmarked." 
Distrihition. Central China, Foochau, Upper Burma, Assam, Himalayas. 
Genus CHRYSOPHANUS. 
Chrysopharms, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 72 (1816) ; Westwood, Geu. Diurn. 
Lep. ii. p. 497 (1852) ; de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 313 (1890). 
Polyommatus, Boisduval, Geu. et Ind. Metli. p. 9 (1840). 
Lycana, sect. 3 (part.), Fahricius, 111. Mag. vi. p. 285 (1807). 
Heodes (part.), Dalmau, Kougl. Veteusk. Acad. Haud. xxxvii. p. 63 (1816). 
"General characters of Lycana, but with the eyes naked, and the upperside of the wings 
generally copper-coloured. 
" Head small, hairy. 
" Labial palpi obliquely porrectcd, of moderate length ; the basal and middle joints thickly 
clothed with bristly hairs ; terminal joint slender, elongate, nearly naked, of nearly equal 
length in both sexes. 
" Aniennce of moderate length, slender ; middle joints long, ringed with white ; terminated by 
a distinct elongate-ovate club, not or scarcely spoon-shaped. 
" Fore wings somewhat elongated, and more acute at the tip than in Lyccnin, with the veins and 
their branches arranged as in that genus ; the position of the slender discocellular veins 
closing the discoidal cell indicated by a transverse black spot on the underside, which is 
generally much ocellated. 
« Bind ivivgs ovate, with the anal angle more prominent than in Lycana ; the extremity of the 
first branch of the median vein is also often produced into a slight angle, especially in the 
males ; marked beneath with black spots similar to those of the fore wings. 
