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Show 1882.] FROM THE N.W. HIMALAYA. 215 CYANIRIS PUSPA. Polyommatus puspa, Horsf. Catal. Lep. Mus. E.I. C (1828), p. 07. " Kulu." CHILADES VARUNANA. Polyommatus varunana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 772, pl. 41. CHILADES PUTLI. Lycana putli, Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. p. 422 (1844). ZIZERA MAHA. Lycana maha, Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. p. 422 (1844). Lycana chandala, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 504, pl. 31. f. 5. ZIZERA INDICA. Lycana indica, Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 525, pl. 10. f. 2, 3. ZIZERA PYGM^EA. Lycana pygmaa, Snellin, Tijd. voor Ent. xix. p. 153, pl. 7- f. 3 (1876). Identical with Sumatran and Ceylonese specimens. AZANUS UBALDUS. Papilio ubaldus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 390. f. L, M(1782). Lycana zena, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 505, pl. 31. f. 9. TARUCUS NARA. Lycana nara, Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. p. 421 (1844). TARUCUS ALTERATUS, n. sp. (Plate XII. figs. 4, 4 A.) Also allied to T. nara ; smaller; colour paler and of a more decided blue tint; fore wing with a slender discocellular dusky lunule ; bind wing with a small dusky spot above the tail, and a slender marginal white line. Cilia brownish white. Underside dull pale greyish ochreous; both wings with similarly disposed markings, which are more slender, paler, and much less distinct, those on the hind wing being reddish ochreous, the marginal metallic spots more or less golden. Expanse \% inch. Hab. N.W. Himalaya (Reid); Dharmsala (Hocking). In coll. F. Moore and British Museum. TARUCUS VENOSUS, n. sp. (Plate XII. figs. 6, 6 a.) Allied to T. theophrastus and T. nara. Wings larger and broader ; fore wing less triangular, the exterior margin more convex ; colour duller blue and of a slight violaceous tinge ; both wings with a broad marginal dusky border, similar to that in male of Zizera chandala ; veins dark-lined : fore wing with a broad dusky spot, and hind wing with a slender lunule at end of the cell, and a |
