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LEP1D0PTEBA INDICA. 
above the middle, the two upper spots small, the second spot from the low T er end 
well inwards, the lowest spot outside on a line with the third, a sub-terminal 
series of spots, a black marginal line and between them a row T of short brown linear 
marks. Hindwing with four sub-basal spots in an outwardly curved row, a lunule at the 
end of the cell, a discal series of eight spots, the upper one near the apex of the wing, 
the next well inwards being the commencement of an outwardly highly curved row of 
five spots, the second from the lower end well outwards, and a costal spot between the 
upper spot and the sub-basal spot; a sub-terminal double series of short lunules wdth 
orange-ochreous between them ; a black marginal line. Cilia as on the upperside; in 
some examples the black spots are encircled wdth pale wFitish. 
Female. Upperside purplish-brown, with some blue-grey basal irrorations, the 
lunular mark at the end of the cell obscure, some sub-terminal obscure blackish spots 
with narrow, paler surroundings, mostly obsolete on the forewing, faintly indicated on 
the hindwing, not visible on either wing in some examples. Cilia as in the male, but 
the spots in it are brown. Underside as in the male. Antennae black, ringed wdth 
white ; top of head white ; some white marks on the front of the thorax; thorax and 
abdomen blackish above, with greyish-blue pubescence, white beneath. 
Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1-j^- inches. 
Habitat. —NAY. Himalayas, Central and South-Eastern Europe, Afghanistan. 
Distribution. —Leslie and Evans record it from Chitral, Butler from Kandahar, 
de Niceville from Ladak, Kashmir, Lahoul, Kunawur, Bingham from Beluchistan; it is 
in our collection also from Kulu and Kashmir. 
ALLIED CHINESE AND JAPANESE SPECIES. 
Scolitantides orion, Papilio orion, Pallas, Reise, i. p. 471 (1771). Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. 
p. 309 (1892). Habitat, Corea, Pekin, Central Europe, Asia Minor, South Siberia, and the 
Amur. 
Scolitantides lanty, Lycaena lanty, Oberthiir, Etud. d’Ent. xi. p. 21, pi. 7, fig. 53 (1886). Habitat, 
Chinese Thibet. 
Genus LYC^ENA. 
Lycsena , Eabricius, Ill. Mag. vi. p. 285 (1807). de Niceville (part), Butt, of India, iii. p. 66 (1890). 
Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 334 (1907). 
Forewing with vein 6 from upper end of cell, 9. out of 7, the bases of 6 and 7 well 
separated, 8 absent, 5 from the middle of discocellulars, 10 and 11 from apical half of 
sub-costal vein, 12 at apex bent slightly towards 11. Hindwing with 3 and 4 distinctly 
separated at base, 3 from a little before the end of the cell, 4 from the end, 7 from 
