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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Handbook Lep. ii. p. 87 (1895). Tutt, Ent. Record, vii. pp. 220, 340 (1895) ; id. Brit. Lep. x. 
p. 159 (1909). 
Lycsena , de Niceville (part), Butt, of India, iii. p. 66 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, ii. 
p. 334 (1907). 
Cyanins , Dalman, Kongl. "V et. Acad. Handl. xxxvii. p. 63 (1816). Type, semiargus, Rottenburg. 
Nomiades , Hiibner, Yerz, bek. Schmett. p. 67 (1816). 
Aricia, R, and L, Jena, Allg, Lit. Zeit. i. p. 280 (1817). Prout , Ent. Record, xxi. p. 156 (1909). 
Type, astrarche , Bergstrasser. 
Vacciniina, Tutt, Brit. Butt. x. p. 154 (1908). Type, ojptilete, Knoch. 
Albulina , Tutt, l.c. Type, plieretes, Eversmann. 
Latiorina , Tutt, l.c. p. 55. Type, orbitulus, Esper. 
Structure and neuration very similar to Lycsena. Genitalia characterised by its 
length and slenderness of both dorsal process and the upright portion of the hook ; 
the dorsal process is also curved in such a way that, when the parts are flattened, as 
occurs when mounting them on a slide, the dorsal armature has the closest resemblance 
to the harp-like tale of the lyre-bird, or perhaps we ought to say, to the conventional 
harp that that tail so closely imitates (Chapman). 
Type, Argus, Linn ge us. 
PLEBEIUS LOEWII. 
Plate 642, figs. 2, £, 2a, $ , 2b, J . 
Lycsena loewii, Zeller, Isis, 1847, p. 9. Herrick-Schafer, Schmett. Eur. i. figs. 434 to 437 (1849). 
Lang, Butt, of Europe, p. 141 (1884). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 79, pi. 26, fig. 167, ^ 
(1890). Leslie and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 672. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. 
India, Butt. ii. p. 343 (1907). 
Lycsena empyrea , Freyer, Neuere Beitr. vi. pi. 573, fig. 1 (1852). Gerhard, Mon. Lyc. pi. 17, 
figs. 2, a to c (1853). 
Lycsena chamanica , Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 23. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 
p. 79 (1890). 
Imago.— Male. Upperside purplish-blue. Forewing with the costal and outer 
marginal lines black, the latter with a little black suffusion and short blackish streaks 
running in on the veins and in the interspaces. Hindwing with a black marginal line, 
a series of indistinct subterminal black marks with a fine white line between them. 
Cilia white with a black basal band. LTnderside grey, markings black edged with 
white. Forewing with a lunule at the end of the cell, a discal series of six spots, the 
lowest linear, the second and third oblique, the upper three close together. Hindwing 
with four sub-basal spots, a lunule at the end of the cell, and a discal series of six 
spots, the lowest lunular, the next placed inwards in a line with the first spot and the 
cell lunule, forming the end of a complete curve with the next three, the last two of 
this curve, being the fourth and fifth spots of the series, close together, the six' 
