PLEBEINJE. 
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black, with white edgings. Forewing with a spot at the end of the cell, and a 
discal series of spots, highly curved outwards above the middle and inwards 
below it. Hindicing with four sub-basal spots in a line, a thin lunule at the end 
of the cell, a discal series of spots curved above and below as in the forewing ; 
both wings with terminal black line, a sub-terminal series of black spots with a white 
line between them and the terminal line, the white line having black dots on the vein 
ends, the black spots heavily crowned with orange and the orange crowned with thin 
blackish lunules. Cilia white. Antennae black, ringed wffth white ; club whitish beneath ; 
head and body blackish-brown above, w'hite beneath; palpi with some stiff black hairs. 
Female, above and below, like the male, but the bands above are composed of 
larger orange spots, and on the underside the ground colour is darker, and all the 
markings larger and more prominent. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ ly^- to 1 r 2 y- inches. 
Larva. —Pale green, with a brownish-purple medio-dorsal stripe and faint pale 
lateral stripes ; each segment has two wart-like eminences with projecting white bristles ; 
the ventral surface is pale green with whitish bristles ; the claspers are semi-transparent 
and pale yellow in colour; the legs are spotted with black ; w T hen full-grown it is about 
half an inch in length and has the usual Lycsena shape ; its food-plant is the Storkbill 
(Erodium c icutarium ). 
Pupa. —Has the usual Lycsena form, pale yellow in colour, with a green tinge, with 
a dorsal stripe of reddish-purple ; it is spun up among the dry leaves of Erodium and 
Artemisia (Lang). 
Habitat. —The Himalayas, throughout Europe, Asia Minor, Kouldja, Askold and 
Amurland. 
Distribution. —de Niceville records it from Simla, Kashmir, Ladak, Kumaon, 
Cheena, Doherty from Kami Tal, Bingham from Beluchistan, Mackinnon and de 
Niceville from Mussuri, Leslie and Evans from Chitral, and it is in our collection 
from Solon, Simla. 
PLEBEIUS IRIS. 
Plate 643, figs. 1, la, $ , lb, $. 
Lycsena iris, Staudinger, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1886, p. 207. Grum-Grshimailo, Rom. Mem. Lep. iv. 
p. 378, pi. 7, fig. 8 (1890), Leslie and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 672. 
Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 337 (woodcut) (1907). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside rich silky purple-brown; both wings with terminal 
black line and black lunule at the end of the cell. Hindwing with a very indistinct 
sub-terminal series of blackish spots, and sometimes indications of a series close to the 
margin, the two nearest the anal angle less obscure than the others, and occasionaffy 
