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LEPIDOPTEBA INDIG A. 
SECTION I.—Notarthrintjs. 
Differs from Lycsenopsis in each portion of the dorsal armature of the ancillary 
appendages having the separate-join ted spine (as in Lycsena ). In Lycsenopsis the 
spine, when there is one, is merely a chitinous process continuous with the base. 
(Chapman.) 
LYCSENOPSIS VARDHANA. 
Plate 619, figs. 1, $, la, $ , lb, $ . 
Polyommatus vardhana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 572, pi. 66, fig. 5, $ . 
Cyaniris vardhana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 244. Butler, id. 1886, p. 367; id. Ann. Mag. 
Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 147. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 95 (1890). Mackinnon and 
de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 379. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1900, 
p. 442. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 318 (1907). 
Notarthrinus vardhana, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 424 (text fig. of ancillary appendages). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside pale iridescent blue. Forewing with the costa and 
outer margin broadly dusky black, the apical portion the broadest; some grey 
irrorations on the basal and lower portions of the wing; a black bar at the end of the 
cell, the space outside it palest, nearly white. Hindwing with the costa broadly pale 
blackish, a black bar at the end of the cell, a dusky, suffused, narrow, outer marginal 
band, the basal portion of the wing thickly irrorated with grey scales, the entire blue 
colouring of the wing darker than it is in the forewing. Underside dull milky white, 
some bright blue irrorations at base of forewing, and on the basal and abdominal 
portions of the hindwing. Forewing with two black spots at the end of the cell, 
sometimes touching each other ; two smaller, well separated spots beyond, at about 
half distance to the apex of the wing, a row of three large post-discal spots in the three 
lowest interspaces. Hind wing with a number of black dots; two near the base, two 
close together below, near the abdominal margin, one sub-costal near the apex, two in 
the disc below, and two below these, on their inner side, in echelon. 
Female like the male, but the white space on the forewing is much more extensive, 
and the dusky blackish edging to the hind wing broader, and some blackish, obscure 
spots on the outer margin. 
Expanse of wings, £ ¥ 1-ro inches. 
Habitat. —N.W. Himalayas. 
Distribution. —Mackinnon records it from Mussuri, de Niceville from Simla, 
Thundiani, Kumaun and Naini Tal; it is in the B. M. from Murree, Kan grit, and 
Kujiar. 
