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Note. —Some doubts have been stated as to the identification of the proper female 
of this species ; the female herein described and figured was captured by Mr. Paul 
Mowis in Sikkim, and was sent to us with a number of males taken at the same w time 
and place. 
LYCiENOPSIS JYNTEANA. . 
Plate 625, figs. 1, (J, la, $, lb, $. 
Cyaniris jynteanci, de Hiceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 69, pi. 1, figs. 7, $, 7a, 9 • Moore, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 524, pi. 48, fig. 10, $ . de Hiceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 104 (1890). 
Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 528. Watson, Journ. Bo. Hat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 44. 
Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 623. Watson, Journ. Bo. Hat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 659. 
Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 331 (1907). Chapman, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1908, 
p. lxxxiii. 
Lycsenopsis jynteana, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 447. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside, both wings deep lavender-blue. Fore wing with the 
outer margin widest at the apex, sometimes reduced to a point at the hinder angle, 
dusky black ; an indistinct discocellular streak sometimes absent; and the disc between 
the median nervules, just beyond the cell irrorated with white scales in some specimens. 
Hindwing with the outer margin dusky black, its inner edge lunulated. In some 
specimens the apical area is obscurely irrorated with white. Underside, both wings 
pale grey. Foreiomg with a pale brown discocellular streak, a discal series of five 
similar spots, of which the upper one is much out of line, being placed nearer the 
base of the wing; a sub-marginal lunulated line and marginal spots very pale brown ; 
the usual fine anticiliary black line. Hindwing with three sub-basal black spots; a 
slender brown discocellular streak; a very sinuous discal series of nine spots ; marginal 
markings as on the forewing. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing with all but the middle of the disc (which is 
white, glossed with iridescent blue) black; a discocellular black spot. Hindwing 
blackish, white in the middle, glossed, with blue, and along the veins irrorated with 
black scales; a sub-marginal series of pale lunules. Underside, both wings marked 
exactly as in the male (de Niceville). 
Expanse of wings, £ 1 T %- to 1 T %, £ to 1 r 2 ^ inches. 
Habitat. —Assam, Sikkim. 
A rare species much resembling the Wet-season form of S. sikkima, but Dr. 
Chapman has shown that the genitalia is quite different, and that there is some slight 
constant difference in the fascies ; the types came from the Jaintia Hills in Assam; 
we have received many thousands of Lycsenids from that locality during the last 
twenty years, but do not appear to have ever received this species, as all our examples 
have been identified as sikkima by Dr. Chapman ; we put the references above for 
what they are worth, most of them probably refer to sikkima. 
