LEPID OP TEPA INDICA. 
lunules and an indistinct series of brown marks between them, those on the bind wing 
containing some pale blue-green metallic scales. Cilia white with grey marks at the 
vein ends. 
Female. Upperside brown with a few dull bine scales at the base, and on the 
abdominal margin of the bindwing ; terminal line black and slender. Underside as in 
the male, but m the type-specimen the ground colour is much darker, markings similar. 
Antennae black, ringed with white; head and body black above with blue hairs, white 
beneath. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ 1 T % inches. 
Habitat. Baltistan, Beluchistan, Ladak, Kashmir. 
Distribution. The types in the B. M. are from Kashmir; there is one example 
from Ladak, and a fine series of both sexes from Kiris, 8,000 feet elevation. 
SECTION II.— Aricia. 
Genitalia has a comparatively very fine hook to the dorsal process, and possesses 
on the body of the clasp, in a longitudinal line, a number of rough spinous processes. 
Type, astrarche, Bergstrasser. 
PLEBEIUS ASTRARCHE. 
Plate 642, figs. 4, $ , 4a, ? , 4b, $ . 
Papilio astrarche , Bergstrasser, Nomencl. iii. p. 4, pi. 49, figs. 7, 8 (1779). 
Lycsena astrarche , Staudinger, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xiv. p. 240 (1878). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, 
p. 889. Lang, Butt, of Europe, p. 114, pi. 24, fig. 9, $, ? (1884). Alpheraky, Hor. Soc. 
Ent. Ross. xvi. p. 386 (1881). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 133. Bingham, 
Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 337 (1907). 
Pajnlio allous, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 988 to 992 (1827-1841). 
Lycsena astrarche , var. allous , Lang, Butt, of Europe, p. 115 (1884). 
Lycsena medon, de Niceville (nec Hufnagel), Butt, of India, iii. p. 69 (1890). Mackinnon and 
de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 379. Leslie and Evans, id. 1903, p. 671. 
Polyommatus nazira, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 504, pi. 31, fig. 4. 
Lycsena nazira , Moore, l.c. 1882, p. 246. 
Cujyido nazira , Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 368. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside satin brown. Forewing with a black spot at the end 
of the cell; a terminal series of blackish spots, and a sub-terminal series of orange 
lunules, sometimes one and sometimes both obsolete. Hindwing with a similar 
terminal and sub-terminal series more prominent, a fine black marginal line to 
both wings. Underside dark grey with some blue scales at the base, markings 
