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LEPIDOPTEPA INDICA. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside pale grey-blue, wbitisb in the disc of both wings, the 
veins more or less prominent. Forewing with the costal line black, outer marginal 
band also black, but narrow, deepest at the apex, narrowing hind wards into a fine line at 
the hinder angle ; a linear grey mark at the end of the cell. Hindwing with some dark 
suffusion on the costa; a sub-terminal, somewhat grey line and a black marginal line. 
Underside uniformly dark greyish-white, almost without any markings, a few scattered 
black minute dots indicating the usual markings. 
Female. Upperside mostly white. Forewing with broad black borders ; the base, 
inner half of the costal portion, and the lower two-thirds suffused with blackish; costal 
line black, broadening into a band from before the middle, broadest at the apex and 
narrower down the outer margin to the hinder angle, a black spot at the end of the 
cell, touching the costal band. Hindwing with the costal portion blackish, marginal 
line black, a sub-terminal line of grey lunules, and between them a series of black spots ; 
the base and abdominal marginal portions suffused with blackish. Underside as in 
the male. Cilia of forewing blackish, edged with white, of the hindwing pure white; 
antennse black, ringed with white ; head and body blackish above, pale beneath. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ 1 T V to 1 ro inches. 
Habitat. —Khasia Hills. 
Ten males and four females received by us from the Khasia Hills in one batch in 
1893, never received since amongst the great number of butterflies we have had from 
the same collector. 
LYCiENOPSIS LANKA. 
Plate 623, figs. 1, $, la, 9 > lb, ? • 
Polyommatus lanha, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 342. 
Cyaniris lanha , Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 76, pi. 35, figs. 2, 2a, $ (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of 
India, iii. p. 109 (1890). Manders, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1901, p. 78. Bingham, Fauna 
of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 330 (1907). 
Lycsenojpsis lanJca , Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 456 (text fig. 96). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside uniform dark purplish-blue; a very fine black 
marginal line on both wings, sometimes present, often absent. Underside shining 
greyish-white, marking grey, very indistinct. Forewing with a linear mark at the end 
of the cell; a post-discal series of linear markings in an almost straight line, rather 
nearer the margin than is usual. Hindwing with the usual three sub-basal black spots, 
almost in a straight line; the discal row of the usual pattern; both wings with sub¬ 
terminal grey lunular line, black terminal line and black spots between them, but the 
sub-terminal line is not always apparent. 
