PLEBEINM 1* 
inwards, in a lm6 with th.6 seventh spot below the middle o£ the costa, and also 
another costal spot near the apex of the wing; both wings with a subterminal series 
of brown spots, enclosed by a lunular pale brown line, the first, second and fouith 
from the anal angle with metallic blue scales, the first three bordered on then inner 
sides with orange-ochreous ; a fine marginal brown line and grey cilia with a brown 
basal band. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body black above with a 
little blue pubescence, white beneath. 
Female. Upperside brown. Forewing with a blackish spot at the end of the 
cell, a post-cliscal transverse double series of pale whitish spots, the outer series being 
obscure, a marginal blackish line with a very indistinct and very fine inner whitish 
line. Hindwing with a post-discal series of more or less obscure whitish spots, a 
subterminal series of blackish spots, commencing with a small pair close together near 
the anal angle, the next two the largest, the others more obscure and decreasing in 
size upwards, all edged outwardly with white, and the first four crowned inwardly with 
orange, a marginal blackish line, and cilia of both wings as in the male. Underside as 
in the male, the markings larger and more prominent. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ 1-fQ inches. 
Habitat. —Beluchistan, Chitral, Persia, Asia Minor. 
Distribution. —Becorded by Leslie and Evans from Chitral, by de Niceville 
from Quetta and Khojak; in our collection from Gunduk in the Sarakola Pass, 
Beluchistan. 
PLEBEIUS SAMUDRA. 
Plate 642, figs. 3, $ , 3a, J , 3b, $ . 
PoJyommatus samudra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 574, pi. 67, fig. 2, $. 
Lycsena samudra , de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 78 (1890). Leslie and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. 
Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 673. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 347 (1907). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside lavender-blue, both wings with slender terminal black 
line, in most examples (but not in the type-specimen) with a little black suffusion 
inside the line, thickest at the apex of each wing ; some dull blue scaling at the base. 
Cilia snow-white. Underside grey, spots black, ringed with whitish. Forewing with 
a short lunule at the end of the cell, a discal even series of five spots, with a slight 
outward curve, the lowest composed of two small spots joined together, the next the 
largest, the next three more or less angular in shape. Hindwing with three sub-basal 
spots, a pale short slender lunular mark at the end of the cell, a discal series of eight 
spots, six of them in an even and well-curved row from the middle of the costa to the 
second interspace, the other two outwards, level with each other, near the abdominal 
margin of the wing; both wings with slender terminal brown line, sub-terminal brown 
