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with a sixth white spot in the middle of the costa; a series of pale white angulated 
marks on the outer margin. Antennae black, ringed with white; head and body 
blackish with blue pubescence. 
Female. Dark chocolate-brown. Forewing with four large square sub terminal 
orange spots above the hinder angle, sometimes with indications of a fifth. Hindwing 
with a complete sub-terminal row of similar spots, the second and third the largest, 
decreasing in size upwards. Underside like the male, but the colour on both wings 
paler, the outer marginal space tinged with pale blue on the forewing, some brownish 
suffusion on the interior portion of the wing, and the discal row of white spots with 
more prominent dark central dots. Hindwing similar to the male. 
Expanse of wings, $ I T %-, $ lq-Q- inches. 
Habitat.— N. W. Himalayas. 
Distribution. —The type came from Kunawar, it has been recorded from Simla 
and Tehri Gurhwal. Moore also records it from Kashmir and Narkunda ; and it is in 
our collection from Kunawur and Pangi. 
LYCJ1NA GALATHEA. 
Plate 642, figs. 1, $, la, 9 > lb, $. 
Lycsenci Galathea, Blanchard, in Jacq. Yoy. Ind. iv. p. 21, pi. 1, figs. 5, 6, $ (1844). de Niceville, 
Butt, of India, iii. p. 82 (1890). Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 
1898, p. 379. Leslie and Evans, id. 1903, p. 673. Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, 
Butt. ii. p. 348 (1907). 
PolyOMmatus galathea , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 271 j id. Sci. Res. Second Yark. Miss. Lcp. 
p. 6 (1879). 
Imago.— Male. Upper side of a beautiful azure-blue colour. Forewing with the 
costal line black, marginal line black with the colour running in shortly on the veins. 
Cilia white with a grey line in it. Underside. Forewing grey, pale on the upper parts, 
the lower portions smeared with brown in the outer parts of the interspaces; a discal 
row of six black spots edged with white, the two lowest geminate, the third and fourth 
linear, the fifth oblique, the sixth small, the seventh minute and placed a little imvards 
below the costa ; a thin lunular line edged with white at the end of the cell; base of 
wing with blue iridescence. 11 indie in g blue-green densely irrorated with darker blue- 
green on the basal portion ; a white lunular line at the end of the cell, and a discal 
well-curved row of six pale white spots in regular order. Antennae black, ringed with 
white; head and body blackish above, covered with blue hairs; white below. 
Female. Upperside dark brown, almost blackish-brown. Forewing with three 
sub terminal dark orange spots above the hinder angle, decreasing in size upwards. 
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