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LEPID OP TUBA INDICA. 
Distribution. —Eecorded by Hampson from the Uilgiris, by Watson from Mysore ; 
in our collection from Trevandrum, Poona, the Annamali and Pulni Hills, and in the 
B. M. also from Kolar. 
LYCiENOPSIS LIMBATA. 
Plate 623, figs. 3, $, 3a, $, 3b, $. 
Polyommatus limbatus , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 139. 
Cyaniris Mmbatus, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 356. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 
p. 109 (1890). Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 373. 
Cyaniris limbata, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. S.oc. 1890, p. 33. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, 
Butt. ii. p. 329 (1907). 
Lycsenopsis limbata, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 447 (text fig. 85). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dark purplish-bine; costal line of forewing and 
terminal line of both wings black. Underside greyish-white, with a slight blue tint; 
markings pale brown, much as in L. puspa , but smaller and more slender; the 
discal line of linear marks on the forewing more regular; the spot nearest the 
costa "well inwards. Hindwing with the three sub-basal black spots as usual, but in 
a line with each other, and another black spot on the abdominal margin nearer 
the base ; a linear mark at the end of the cell; the discal row of markings ending with 
a rather large black spot near the costa ; both wings with a sub-terminal lunular line, 
a fine black marginal line, and between them a series of spots, the last three nearest 
the anal angle being black. 
Female much paler, with some blue iridescence. Forewing with the costal band 
broad; the outer marginal band narrower. Hindiving with the costal and marginal 
bands broadly brownish-black in some examples, in others it is paler and diffused, and 
the outer margin contains a blackish sub-terminal lunular line, a black marginal line, 
and black spots between them. Underside as in the male. Antennae black, ringed 
with white; head and body black above, greyish beneath ; head and thorax clothed 
with long bluish hairs above. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ l-f~o inches. 
Habitat. —Southern India, Behar, Bengal, Ceylon. 
Distribution. —Hampson records it from the Uilgiris, Watson from Mysore, 
Davidson from Karwar, de Niceville from the Parisnath Hills and Travancore ; we 
have it from Ceylon, Coorg, and Trevandrum. 
LYCJiNOPSIS MARGrINATA. 
Plate 624, figs. 1, <£, la, ?, lb, $ (Wet-season Brood), 1c, $, Id, ?, le, ? (Dry-season Brood). 
Cyaniris marginata , de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. /0, pi. i. fig. 9, $. Moore, Proc. 
Zool, Soc. 1883, p. 523, pi. 48, fig. 6, $. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 134. 
