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Show 1874.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 573 Female with the disk of fore wing pale bluish white, and indistinct dusky spots on margin of hind wing. Underside bluish white : fore wing with a prominent black discocellular streak and a curved discal series of spots, the upper spots small and disposed obliquely before the apex, the three lower spots large : hind wing slightly powdered with blue at the base ; a discal series of black dots, a dot within the cell, and a more prominent spot near base of anterior margin; a small black lunule on anal margin. Exp. o* If, 2 If inch. Hab. Jako, valley of Rupin river, in Busahir (Capt. H. B. Hellard) . POLYOMMATUS OMPHISA. (Plate LXVI. fig. 2.) Allied to P. galathea, Blanchard, Jacq. Voy. Male. Upperside very dark purple, the base only suffused with blue. Female. Glossy vinous purple, with indistinct dull orange marginal spots on both wings: cilia white, with brown inner line, on upperside of both wings. Underside : fore wing pale greyish fawn-colour, disk suffused with fuliginous ; a prominent discocellular white-bordered black streak and transverse discal row of six spots : hind wing metallic golden green, a distinct white discocellular spot and angular discal series of white spots. Exp. cf If, 2 H inch. Hab. Dras valley, Ladak (Capt. H. B. Hellard). POLYOMMATUS DEVANICA. (Plate LXVI. fig. 4.) Allied to P. alexis. Male. Upperside dark purplish blue, basally dashed with clear blue ; discocellular black spot of underside visible above ; cilia white alternating with brown. Underside pale fawn-colour: fore wing with a white-bordered prominent black discocellular spot and a transverse discal row of five spots ; a marginal row of white rings with dark centres, the space between which and the discal spots clouded with black : hind wing with four prominent white-bordered black subbasal spots and a discal series of seven spots, the five lower spots being disposed in a straight row, the two upper spots proceeding at right angles to anterior margin; a marginal row of pale-bordered dark spots surmounted by a submarginal black lunular line, the lower marginal spots slightly bordered with orange and speckled with metallic green ; a triangular discocellular white spot centred with a slight black dentate mark; space between discal and submarginal spots streaked with white. Exp. cf 1|, 2 1 inch. Hab. Dras valley, Ladak (Capt. H. B. Hellard). POLYOMMATUS JALOKA. (Plate LXVI. fig. 3.) Male. Upperside shining greenish blue basally, outer margin |
