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Show 1886.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM WESTERN INDIA. 367 44. CYANIRIS VARDHANA. Polyommatus vardhana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 572, pi. 66 fig. 5. 6 2, Murree, 28th August, 3rd and 8th September, 1885. " Not uncommon at Murree at the end of August; was for a long time passed over as C. coslestina."-J. TV. Y C. vardhana is rather a rare species in collections. 45. CYANIRIS KOLLARI. Lycama kollari, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 491. n. 69 (1852). Lycana ccelestina, Kollar (nee Eversm.), Hiigel's Kaschm. iv. 2 p. 423 (1848). d 2, Murree, 12th August; $, 28th December, 1885. " Very common, August and September."-/. TV. Y. This species being new to the Museum collection, I cannot question the identification, more especially as Kollar's description would do just as well for half a dozen other species ; at the same time Kollar's name having been already used by Eversmann, cannot possibly be admitted. C. kollari is more like typical G. pseudar-giolus than any other species known to me, but is smaller ; it should probably stand next to C. levettii in collections. 46. ZlZERA DILUTA. d . Lycama diluta, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. ii. p. 280. n. 353, pi. 35. figs. 12, 13. 2, Campbellpore, 17th June and 23rd July; d, 9th October; 2, Murree, 2nd, 5th, and 6th August, and 20th September. " Zizera maha, De N., diluta, Swinh. Common at Murree in August and September."-/. TV. Y. In spite of Felder's very poor figure of the upper surface, I have never seen any other than this species that could be identified with Z. diluta; it has hardly a feature in common with Z. maha, which is much nearer to Z. chandala. The specimens of this species were all females, with the exception of two worn ones, and one of these was labelled as probably a Moth ; the females stand under the numbers 7, 72, 12 a, and 527. 47- ZlZERA KARSANDRA. Polyommatus karsandra, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 505. n. 106, pi. 31. fig. 7. d $, Campbellpore, 21st May and June; $, Murree, 1st October, 1885. "Zizera maha and Z. sangra apud de Niceville; Z. decreta and karsana apud Swinhoe : very common in the grass and lucerne-fields in M a y and June; though many of them differed, still they all seemed linked to one another, and I put them all under one number."-/. TV. Y. Major Yerbury was perfectly correct in so doing j I find only males |