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the 1st of July near the village of Houan-tcliiii, in the province of Kau-sou, 
and that it differed from typical examples in the absence of the metallic 
snbmarginal markings on under surface of secondaries ; this form, however, 
lie states, occurs occasionally among specimens from Askahabad. 
In 1887 I took a long series of i. samitdra in Ladak and Bultistan, where 
they were flying among bushes along the river-side. I find that all these 
specimens differ from L. christophi as figured (/. r.) in tlie following 
characters : — The blue coloration of both sexes is much more tinged witli 
violet, and the female much more suffused with black. On the under surface 
of both sexes the transverse band of black spots on the primaries is not 
regularly curved as in L. cliristophi, and terminates in a double spot placed 
exactly below the one preceding it ; the black spots of secondaries are not 
so well defined, and many of them are frequently absent. They appear to 
agree, however, with Staudinger's description, and also with specimens of 
L. cliristopM sent me by M. Cirum-Grshimailo from Dshaungaria. 
Distribution. Persia, Pamir, Turkestan, Baltistan, Ladak, Thibet, and 
Northern China. 
Satsuma leechi. 
T/iecla leechii, de Niceville, Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. p. 335 (1892). 
Satstima niceviUei, Leech, ante, p. 355. 
" Female. Upperside : both wings pale blue. Fore wing with the costa broadl)- black, that 
colour reaching to the subcostal nervure ; the apex verj- broadly and the outer margin also 
broadly but decreasingly black. Hind wing with the costa and apex rather broad!}-, the 
outer margin narrowly pale fuscous ; a fine black anteciliary thread ; the cilia cinereous. 
Under surface : both wings ferruginous, rather darker on the hind wing. Fore wing with 
an irregular darker discal line, commencing on the costa and ending on the first median 
nervule, outwardly defined with whitish ; the inner margin broadly pale fuscous. Hind 
wing with very indistinct discal and submarginal lines ; the abdominal margin and anal 
lobe heavily sprinkled with black scales. The upperside of this species agrees with the 
description of S. chalyhela, but the underside is ferruginous not grey, and the fore wing has 
no discoidal spot. The markings and ground-colour of the underside are almost exactly as 
in Japanese males of S. frivaldszhyi \J ftrna, Butl.] in my collection, but the latter is 
considerably paler, and the former are far less distinct ; whether these are specific or sexual 
differences I am unable to say." {de Niceville, I. c.) 
Since describing S. nicevillei I find that M. de Niceville lias called his 
insects from the Khasi hills ' Thecla' leechii. If on comparison these 
specimens should prove to be identical with examples from Western China 
the synonymy of the species will be as above. 
