LYC2ENIN2E. 
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Imago. —Male. Upperside blackish-brown, all the interior portion of both wings 
thickly covered with metallic blue scales which in some lights look purple-blue and in 
others purple-green, leaving the borders as if with broad even blackish bands, the 
extent of the blue scaling, however, varies somewhat in different specimens. Under¬ 
side. Forewing dark brownish-grey, darker on the outer marginal portion ; a black 
lunule edged with white at the end of the cell, an even discal series of six black spots 
edged with white, the lowest geminate, the three upper ones curving inwards below 
the costa, some obscure white angular marks on the outer margin ; the base of the 
wing thickly suffused with blue scales. Hindwing blue-green, darker towards the base ; 
a white lunule at the end of the cell, four white spots in an even curve in the middle of 
the disc, and a fifth white spot on the middle of the costa ; veins rather prominent. 
Female. Upperside dark purple-brown without any markings; a slender black 
marginal line to both wings and a black costal line on the forewing. Underside. 
Forewing suffused with pale chestnut-brown, the outer margin with large pale white 
spots joined together, making a rather broad whitish marginal band, some blue suffusion 
at the base. Hindwing dull pale blue-green with some pale greyish suffusion on the 
costal parts; markings on both wings as in the male. Cilia white. Antennse black, 
ringed with white; head and body black above with some blue pubescence, below 
white. 
Expanse of wings, £ 1^-, 9 I inches. 
Habitat. —-N.W. Himalayas. 
Distribution. —Recorded from Chitral, Lahoul and Ladak; and it is in our 
collection from Dras. 
LYCiENA METALLICA. 
Plate 641, figs. 3, £, 3a, $ , 3b, 9 • 
Lycsena metallica , Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 283, pi. 35, figs. 7, 8, <£,9, $ (1865). Moore, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 247. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 83 (1890). 
Lycsena galathea, Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 348 (1907). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside, both wings dilute violaceous-cyaneous, a whitish striga 
before the cilia, outwardly powdered with fuscous. Forewing with the tips of the veins 
and the margin increasingly hindward. Hindwing with the costal border and the 
external margin fuscous. Underside. Forewing very pale hoary-brownisli at the base 
and at the apex ; the hindwing entirely metallic bluish-greenish. Forewing with a 
rounded spot. Hindwing with a litura on the discocellulars, and a bent fascia of 
rounded spots beyond the disc whitish, broader in the forewing and in the hind wing 
joined to a fuscous shadow (Felder). 
Female. Upperside brown. Forewing with the basal two-thirds. Hind wing with 
