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blacker than the others, the detached spot before the last lower spot in the shape of a 
short curve ; both wings with a sub-terminal row of detached lunules ; a slender black 
marginal line and black dots between them. 
Female. Upperside much paler than the male, with a lilac tinge in some 
examples, and brilliant blue reflections in some lights. Forewing with rather broad 
blackish costal and marginal bands ; a black spot at the end of the cell, touching the 
costal band. Hindioing with the costal portion suffused with pale blackish-brown, the 
base suffused with the same colour; the upper disc pale, in some examples whitish; a 
sub-terminal line of blackish lunules ; a marginal blackish line and blackish spots 
between them. Underside as in the male. Cilia white, black at its base. Antennae 
black, ringed with white ; head and body black above, white beneath. 
Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1J inches. 
Habitat. —Ceylon. 
Distribution. —Occurs more or less throughout Ceylon ; Bingham records it from 
South India, but we have never seen an Indian example, nor can we find any record 
of one. 
LYCiENOPSIS ALBOCiERULEA. 
Plate 626, figs. 3, $ (one form), 3a, $ (another form), 3b, ? , 3c, $, 3d, 9 • 
Polyommatus albocserulea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 139. 
Cyaniris albocserulea , de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 71, pi. i. %s. b $, 4a, 9 ; id. 
Butt, of India, iii. p. 98 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 622. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. 
Soc. 1893, p. 293. Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 379. 
Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1900, p. 443. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 321, 
pi. 19, fig. 125, ? (1907). 
Lycsenopsis albocserulea , Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 470 (text fig. 116). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside white. Forewing with the costa, outer margin and 
hinder border broadly pale lilacine-blue ; apex broadly black, narrowing hindwards 
on the outer margin, the base more or less suffused with blue, leaving the inner 
portion pure white. Hindwing , in some examples, pure white without markings, 
except a little grey and blue basal suffusion ; in others the blue suffusion extends a 
little along the costal and abdominal marginal portions of the wing and sometimes a 
little on the outer margin ; marginal line black. Underside pure white. Forewing 
with a very faint line at the end of the cell, and a post-discal row of black linear 
marks. Hindwmg with many minute black spots in irregular order on the interior 
two-thirds of the wing, and sometimes, but not always, a series of sub-terminal 
black dots. 
Female. Upperside like the male, but all the marginal bands are black without 
any blue, the blue reflections being confined to the basal portions of both wings. 
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