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are nearly always some of these insects on and among the flower- 

 heads. Colonel Bingham gives the distribution as Peninsular 

 India, except in the desert tracts ; Ceylon ; Assam ; Burma ; the 

 Andamans ; extending into the Malayan Sub-region. Some of the 

 wet-season males are intensely brilliant with very little white on the 

 disc above. 



134. Lycoenopsis IMaces. — Male. i7/>;jemd<? : shining purplish-black. Fore 

 wing : costa narrowly and evenly for three-fourths of its length from base, 

 apex broadly and terminal mart^in decreasingly jet-black: «'//«; black. 

 Hind wnig : costa and apex broadly, termen narrowly, bordered with 

 black: a snbterminal series of snaall, round, black spots that merge anteriorly 

 into the black at apex ; cilia black, tipped with white. Undemide: opaque 

 chalk-white. Fore wing : the following black markings : — a broad, short 

 bar on the discocellulars ; a discal, transverse series of prominent spots in 

 interspaces I to (i, the spot in interspace 1 elongate, in 2 and 8 oval and 

 placed obliquely on the wing, in 4 elongate and pointing obliquely outwards, 

 in 5 and rounded, the spot in interspace 6 shifted a little inward ; beyond 

 these discal marJdngs is a transverse series of slender, black lunulas, 

 followed by a snbterminal series of minute, round, black spots, one in each 

 interspace and a very slender, anticiliary, black line ; cilia on the underside 

 white. Hind wing : also with the foJJowing black markings : — a minute 

 spot at base, followed by two larger spots one above the other, a sinuous, 

 short line on tlie discocellulars, and just beyond it a transverse, somewhat 

 curved series of four slightly quadrate spots, two subcostal and two 

 posterior : a discal series of four more spots, the lowest one curved, the 

 next spot round, the next elongate and placed jDointing obliquely out- 

 wards ; lastly the apical spot of the series round ; terminal markings and 

 cilia as on the fore wing. Antennte, head, thorax and abdomen black, 

 the antennae ringed with white and a white line along the inner and 

 outer orbits of the eyes; beneath: the palpi thorax and abdomen white. 

 Female. Upperside: brownish-black Fore wing: from base for a little 

 more than two-thirds of its length and from the posterior half of the dis- 

 coidal C3ll to the dorsum white, beautifully glossed with purplish blue at 

 the upper outer corner of the area indicated above, which is pure white. 

 Hind wing : glossed with blue over a broad, central area from base to a 

 broad, brownish black, terminal border, on the inner margin of which and 

 partially coalsscing with it is a transverse series of large, round, jet-black 

 spots, inwardly narrowly and obscurely margined with bluish white, this 

 colour at the anterior spots carried as streaks inwards for a short distance. 

 Underdde : as in the male Antennas, head, thorax and abdomen also 

 similar. Expanse : male and female, 3638 mm. 



Larva and Pajya. -Unknown. 



[lahits. — Unknown. This butterfly has only been recorded from 

 the Nilgiris but might possibly occur in the Western Ghats of 

 Bombay. De Niceville looked upon it as a variety of L. imspa, but 

 Colonel Bingham has recognised it as a separate species. 



o. Genus — Zizkka. 



The genus is spread over nearly the whole of Europe and Asia and is 

 found also in North and South Africa. It contains some of the smallest 

 species of butterflies know^n, Z. f/nika, measuring sometimes little over half an 

 inch in expanse of wing. In India there are four well distinguished species. 

 They are all widely spread and may be found in grass-lands everywhere 



