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on the costal portion; a sub-terminal indistinct, grey lunular line ; a black marginal 
line, with black spots between them ; veins blackish and prominent. Underside as in 
the male. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ 1 t 2 q- inches. 
Habitat. —Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam, Upper Burma, Arracan. 
Distribution. —Recorded by Elwes from the Naga Hills, by Watson from the 
Chin Hills, by de Niceville from Nepal, Kumaon, North Cachar, and Sibsaghar; in our 
collection from Sikkim, Cashmir, and many examples of both sexes of both forms from 
the Khasia Hills. 
LYCiENOPSIS MELiENA. 
Plate 625, figs. 3, <£, 3a, $. 
Cyaniris meleena, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 434, pi. 23, fig. 13, $. de Hiceville, 
Butt, of India, iii. p. 97 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 622. Butler, Ann. Mag. Hat. 
Hist. 1900, p. 443. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 320 (1907). 
Lycsenopsis melsena, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 464 (text fig. 108). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dull dark purple blue, iridescent in certain lights ; 
the darkest species of the genus we have yet seen. Forewing with broad costal and 
outer marginal black borders, broadest at the apex. Hmdwing with a broad blackish 
costal space ; marginal band black ; in the type-specimen apparently complete, but in 
other examples the band contains a series of lunular marks of the ground colour of the 
wing. Underside greyish-white with a blue tint; markings black. Forewing with a 
line at the end of the cell; a post-discal series of short lines, the second, fourth and 
fifth outwardly oblique, the fifth and sixth recurved inwards; a sub-terminal line of 
short blackish-brown lines; a terminal slightly sinuous black line; and between them 
some pale blackish spots. Hindwing with the spots more prominent; a line at the 
end of the cell; the usual three sub-basal spots; a row of discal spots disposed as 
usual, the centre one the largest and obliquely placed ; a black terminal line ; a sub¬ 
terminal angulated pale line ; and between them a series of prominent black spots. 
Cilia black, tipped with white. Antennae black, ringed with white; head and body 
black above with dark blue lines, greyish-white beneath. 
Expanse of wings, 1-f^ inches. 
Female, unknown. 
Habitat. —Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula. 
There are three examples in our collection; it is not in the B. M. 
LYCJINOPSIS AKASA. 
Plate 626, figs. 1, $, la, $, lb, $ . 
Polyommatus akasa, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 67, pi. 1, figs. 1, la, $ (1828). 
Cyaniris akasa , Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 75, pi. 34, fig. 5, $ (1881). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. 
