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LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 
LYC2EN0PSIS DILECTA. 
Plate 625, figs. 2, £, 2a, J, 2b, £ (Wet-season Brood), 2c, $, 2d, $ (Dry-season Brood). 
Polyommatus dilectus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 139. 
Cyaniris dilectus, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 68, pi. i. fig. 5, $ ; id. Butt, of India, 
iii. p. 107 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 622. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 
p. 295. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 659. 
Cyaniris dilecta, Bingham, Eauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 331, pi. 19, fig. 128, (1907). 
Lycsenojjsis dilecta, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 453 (text fig. 92). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, 2a, 2b, $). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside pale lilac-blue. Forewing with the middle of the 
wing somewhat pale ; a very slender black, costal line ; a slender black outer marginal 
line. Hindwing with the costal space narrowly suffused with grey, ending in a small 
blackish space at the apex ; outer marginal black line also slender; in some examples 
there is a pale space in the upper disc of the wing. Underside whitish with a very 
faint bluish tint; markings pale brown, very slender, and hardly to be traced ; on the 
forewing the sub-terminal series is uniformly in line ; on the hindwing the discal series 
is in minute dots, and both wings have the cell markings and usual terminal markings 
faintly indicated. 
Female. Upperside suffused with blackish with blue reflections. Forewing with 
broad costal and marginal blackish bands. Hindwing with some blue reflections at 
the base; a sub-terminal lunular blackish line and a black marginal line with black 
spots between them ; the veins on both wings more or less prominent. Underside as 
in the male ; the markings more distinct. Cilia white, marked with black. Antennse 
black, ringed with white; head and body blackish-brown above, white beneath. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ to 1-f^- inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2c, 2d, ?). 
Male. Upperside of a brighter blue; a large white patch in the middle of the 
forewing, and a large discal patch on the hindwing, which is sometimes confined to the 
upper disc; the patch varies much in size, and sometimes extends across the wing; a 
slender black costal line on the forewing, and slender black marginal lines on both 
wings. Underside as in the Wet-season form. 
Female. Upperside mostly white. Forewing with blue reflections, markedly so 
in the upper disc; costal and marginal black bands a little narrower than in the other 
form; a black spot at the end of the cell, touching the costal band; basal portion 
irrorated with pale blackish scales and some similar scales sparsely placed on the lower 
portion of the wing. Hindwing. Upperside nearly all white ; some blackish suffusion 
