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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
extensive. Hindwing with the outer marginal band narrower, and suffused hindwards, 
sometimes containing a whitish dentated line. Underside whiter, the markings 
similarly disposed, but faint and reduced. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing brownish-black, the whole of the disc pure 
white, leaving a third of the base pale blackish ; the costa and outer margins broadly 
black ; a black streak at the end of the cell, touching the costal band. Hindwing with 
all the interior portion pure white; some blackish suffusion on the basal portion, and 
paler suffusion on the abdominal marginal space ; a broad inwardly suffused pale 
blackish marginal band, containing a sub-marginal series of whitish lunules. Under¬ 
side as in the male. 
Expanse of wings, £ 9 1 T 2 ¥ inches. 
Habitat. —Sikkim, Assam, Burma. 
Distribution. —Kecorded by Elwes from the Karen Hills ; we have it from Sikkim, 
the Khasia Hills and Bhutan; and it is in the B. M. also from Tenasserim. 
LYC2EN0PSIS PUSPA. 
Plate 620, figs. 2, $, 2a, $ , 2b, 9 ; (Wet-season Brood), 2c, $ , 2d, $ , 2e, $ (Dry-season Brood). 
Polyommatus puspa, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 67 (1828). 
Cyaniris puspa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 245. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, 
p. 67, pi. i. fig. 5a, 9* Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 335. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. 
Bengal, 1888, p. 356. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 100 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1892, p. 622. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 294. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. 
Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 373 (life history). Watson, id. 1897, p. 658. Mackinnon and 
de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 377. Aitken and Comber, id. 1903, p. 47. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. 
India, Butt. ii. p. 323, pi. 19, fig. 127, $ (1907). 
Lycsena puspa, var. Felder, Yerh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xviii. p. 282 (1868). 
Lyceenopsis puspa, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 437 (text fig. 71). 
Polyommatus lavendularis , Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 341. 
Cyaniris lavendularis, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 75, pi. 34, figs. 6, 6a, £, 7, 9 (1881). 
Cyaniris Iambi, Distant and Pryer, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1882, p. 266. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, 
p. 211, pi. 21, fig. 22, $ (1884). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, £, 2a, 9, 2b, 9). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dark violaceous-blue, with brilliant reflections in certain 
lights. Forewing with the costal line black; a broad outer marginal black band, 
broadest at the apex. Hindwing with a very broad black costal band, continued in a 
somewhat narrower form on the outer margin, narrowing hind wards. Underside 
greyish-white, very slightly tinged with blue ; markings pale brown. Forewing with 
a lunular mark at the end of the cell; a discal whorl of spots, the upper one nearly 
round and inwards, the others in a row, the third outwardly oblique, the fifth also 
