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LEPIDOPTERA IN PICA. 
a cliscal series of seven spots, the two lowest geminate, the row evenly curved 
outwards above its middle, some blue scaling at the base. Hindwing with the 
basal portions irrorated with blue scales, four sub-basal spots in a line, a fine lunular 
line in a small white patch at the end of the cell, a discal outwardly well curved row of 
seven spots, the lowest lunular ; both wings with brown terminal line, a sub-terminal 
series of spear-shaped white marks, each with a grey spot in it; the middle spots of 
the hindwing expanding into a white streak inwards, its inner point joining the 
discoidal patch. Antennse black, ringed with white; head and body blackish, with blue 
hairs. 
Female. Upperside brown, costal line of fore wing white, marginal line of both 
wings blackish, a few indistinct blackish sub-terminal spots on the hindwing. Under¬ 
side darker than the male, markings similar. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ 1 to ly 1 -^ inches. 
Habitat. —Kardong Pass, 17,000 feet elevation (types); it is in the B. M. also 
from the Chongching Valley, Ladak and Kashmir. 
POLYOMMATUS STOLICZKANA. 
Plate 645, figs. 4, $, 4a, $ , 4b, $ , 4c, $ . 
Lycama stoliczhana , Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 283, pi. 35, figs. 10, 11, $ (1865). de Niceville, 
Butt, of India, iii. p. 73 (1890). Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 341 (1907). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside rather pale violet-blue. Forewing with dark blue 
iridescent scales at the base and along two-thirds of the hinder marginal space. Hind- 
wing with the basal and abdominal portions with similar iridescent scales; both wings 
with brown marginal line. U Cilia white with a basal brown band. Underside pale violet- 
grey, all the veins more or less prominent,’marginal line brown. Forewing with a 
black thin linear mark at the end of the cell, on a round white spot; some bright 
iridescent blue scales at the base, outer part of the wing palest, the interspaces being 
somewhat whitish. Hindwing with the basal and abdominal portions broadly irrorated 
with blue iridescent scales, a large pale whitish spot or round patch at the end of the 
cell, with the whitish colour continued in the interspace above vein 4 down to the 
outer margin, which contains a series of rather broad whitish streaks in all the inter¬ 
spaces, each streak containing a fine line of the ground colour ; with the exception of the 
mark at the end of the cell of the forewing there are no other marks or spots on either 
wing. Cilia pure white without the basal band. 
Female. Upperside violet-brown with some basal blue scales on the forewing and 
on both basal and abdominal portions of the hindwing, a few markings on the outer 
margin of the latter, like nearly obsolete pale spots. Underside coloured like the male. 
