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LEPID OP TEPA INDICA. 
We have not seen a female ; the types are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Local race, prominens, nov. Female. Upperside. Forewing with the blue area 
more extensive. Hindwing with the marginal spots much larger and blacker. Under¬ 
side. Hindwing with all the markings much larger and more prominent, especially 
the spot just beyond the middle of the costa, and the marginal round spots, which are 
inwardly defined by a distinct narrow lunulated fuscous line ; the discal spots arranged 
in a regular sinuous band. 
Expanse, 1-^- inches. 
Habitat. —Little Nicobars (de Nieeville). 
LYCiENOPSIS HUEGELII. 
Plate 621, figs. 3, £, 3a, 9> 3b, $ (Wet-season Broocl), 3c, <£, 3d, 9 (Dry-season Brood). 
Cyaniris huegelii, Moore, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 244. de Nieeville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 107 
(1890). Mackinnon and de Nieeville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 380. Bingham, 
Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 333, pi. 19, fig. 129, $ (1907). 
Lycsenopsis huegelii, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 444. 
Lycaena argiolus, Kollar (nec Linnaeus), Hiigel’s Kaschmir, iv. (2), p. 423 (1848). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 3, 3a, 9, 3b, $). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dark purplish-blue ; a black costal line on the forewing 
and black outer marginal line on both wings; cilia white, with slender black marks at 
the ends of the veins. Underside pearly bluish-white, markings pale brown. Forewing 
with a slender line at the end of the cell; a discal row of indistinct spots in the inter¬ 
spaces 2 to 6. Hindwing with three sub-basal black spots, the upper one sub-costal, 
the second in the middle, and the third close to the middle of the abdominal margin, 
in a straight row; a black sub-costal dot near the apex, another a little inwardly below 
it, a third much nearer the margin, in the middle of the disc, and one between it and 
the spot near the abdominal margin; both wings with a sub-terminal band of lunules 
enclosing a complete row of small spots. 
Female. Upperside much paler than the male and duller in colour. Forewing 
with rather broad, dull blackish costal and outer marginal band. Hindwing with a 
very broad costal band of the same colour ; marginal line blackish, some anticiliary 
black triangular spots ringed with whitish and edged inwardly by a blackish thin band. 
Underside as in the male. 
Expanse of wings, ^9 lyk inches. 
Dry -season Brood (Figs. 3c, L 3d, 9)* 
Male. Upperside greyish lilacine blue ; costal line of forewing and outer marginal 
line of both wings very finely black, cilia as in the Wet-season form. Lhnderside also 
as in that form, the markings very minute and indistinct. 
