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LEPIDOPTEBA INPICA, 
with two or three blue-green metallic scales. Cilia snow-white. Underside dark grey, 
spots large and edged with clear-cut white rings. Forewing with the largest spot of 
all, at the end of the cell; in some examples it looks like two spots closely joined 
together, a discal series of six spots quite close to the large discoidal spot, the first four 
from the upper end in a well-curved series, the lowest spot outwards, the third, fourth 
and fifth at right angles to the others, like short bars, the fifth generally the longest. 
Hindwing with four sub-basal spots in an irregular line, a thick lunular mark at the 
end of the cell, and a discal series of seven spots, the sixth from the costa outwardly 
deeply curved, the seventh placed a little outwards ; both wings with a terminal brown 
line, a sub-terminal series of brown lunular marks, edged inwardly by conspicuous white 
lunules, and between them a paler series of brown lunular marks, the last four spaces 
before the anal angle of the hindwing filled in with orange suffusion, the spots in them 
jet black with metallic blue-green scales, the two middle ones the largest. 
Female, above and below, like the male. 
Antennae black, ringed with white; thorax and abdomen blackish above, white 
beneath ; front and top of head white. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ 1 to ly 1 -^ inches. 
Habitat. —Central Asia, Pamirs, Chitral. 
Distribution. —A fine series in the B. M. from Turkestan, Samarkund, and many 
other parts of Central Asia, and nine examples from Ziarat and Jhela Drosh, Chitral, 
collected by Leslie and Evans. 
SECTION III.— Albulina. 
Genitalia agrees with Aricia in the general form of the long hard process of the 
clasp, but has the hook of the dorsal process with a very broad square base, and the 
upper portion thick below, tapering and ending in a slight hook. 
Type, phereles, Eversmann. 
PLEBEIUS LEHANA. 
Plate 643, figs. 2, £, 2a, J , 2b, $, 
Polyommatus lehana , Moore, Aon. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 230; id. Sci. Res. Second Yark. Miss. 
Lep. p. 6, pi. i. fig. 6, (1879). 
Lycsena leliana, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 81 (1890). Maekinnon and de Niceville, Journ. 
Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 379. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 352, pi. 19, 
fig. 132, 133, ? (1907). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside purplish-blue, with some dark blue scaling at the base ; 
both wings with very fine marginal black line. Underside. Forewing plumbeous- 
grey, with blue scaling at the base, markings blackish-brown with white edges; a 
lunular mark at the end of the cell, a discal row of five small spots, evenly curved 
