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inwards at its upper end. Ilindwing with the ground colour darker; markings pure 
white, large and prominent, a streak within the cell, a costal spot above it, another spot 
outwards close to it, a spot below obliquely outwards, five squarish lengthened spots in 
the disc in a row, only separated from each other by the veins, the upper end outwardly 
obliquely below the last-mentioned spot, the row running right across the wing, the 
lowest spot belonging to it (very small) placed inwards, a series of paler and more 
obscure sub-terminal spots, all the spots centred by very obscure grey dots. Cilia 
white. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body blackish above, clothed 
with bluish hairs, white beneath, the palpi beneath fringed with black hairs. 
Female. Upperside darker than the male, otherwise it is similar both above and 
beneath. 
Expanse of wings, $ 9 1 inch. 
Habitat. — W es tern Himalayas. 
Distribution. —Mackinnon and de Niceville record it from Mussuri, de Niceville 
from Leh and Ladak ; and both sexes are in our collection from Kashmir. 
PLEBEITJS ASIATICA. 
Plate 643, figs. 3, <£, 3a, 9, 3b, $. 
Lycsena pheretes , var. asiatica, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 402 ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 
p. 382. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 81 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, 
Butt. ii. p. 352, pi. 19, fig. 134 (1907). 
Imago. —Male. Forewing more pointed at apex. Upperside, both wings rich 
metallic blue, with very fine marginal black line. Underside grey. Forewing with a 
thin black lunular mark edged with white at the end of the cell, some blue scaling at 
the base of the wing. Hindwing irrorated with blue scales on the basal two-thirds, the 
white spots arranged as in Lehana , but smaller and more round. 
Female. Upperside darker and duller in colour, with fine marginal black line. 
Underside coloured like the male. Forewing with three small white spots in a 
transverse row in the upper disc, instead of the complete row of discal spots as in 
Lehana. Hindwing with a white lunule at the end of the cell, the remaining markings 
as in Lehana. 
Expanse of wings, £ T 9 ¥ , 9 1 inch. 
Habitat. —Sikkim, Chumbi. 
PLEBEITJS PHARIS. 
■ Plate 643, figs. 4, $, 4a, 9 , 4b, $. 
Lycsena pheretes, var. pjiaris, Fawcett, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. ii. p. 138, pi. 9, figs. 5, £, 5a, 9 • 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dark purple-blue. Forewing with a black marginal 
line; margin of hindwing broadly black, especially at apex and costa ; cilia broadly 
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