Race lehana.2C Moore Albulina pheretes

albulina pheretes, underside

male upperside purplish blue dark blue @ bases of wings. forewings , hindwings obscure, slender, black, anticiliary lines, followed full, snow-white cilia. underside grey, pale plumbeous brown on discs of wings, bases of both forewings , hindwings irrorated (sprinkled) bluish-green scales. forewing has narrow transverse black lunule on discocellulars , transverse curved discal series of 5 white spots, each spot centred black. hindwing has streak in cell, spot above near costa , discal series of 5 spots, of posterior 4 in oblique line directed outwards, , upper or fifth larger, placed further inwards above apex of cell. in type , few others discal spots 7 or 8 in number, , smaller in majority of specimens. antennae dark brown, shafts usual ringed white; head, thorax , abdomen clothed bluish hairs; palpi fringed black hairs, thorax , abdomen white.

the female similar male, on upperside ground colour rich brown, bases of wings blue. underside: ground colour , markings in male. antennae, head, thorax , abdomen similar of male latter 3 brown, not clothed bluish hairs.

the race has wingspan of 28–30 mm. found in western himalayas (ladakh, kashmir) @ elevations 8,000 12,000 feet (2,400 3,700 m).