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Fig. 111. — I'ost. win;; of Zemeros 

 emesoides, sliowinf; iiosition of 

 lower disco-cellular nervule. 



Fill. 50. — Post, wing of Ahiaara 

 kausambi, showing position of 

 lower disco-cellular nervule. 



SYNOPSIS OF GENEllA. 



1. Lower clisco-cclluliir nervule of posterior wings united with 



the common base of the two upper median lu'rvules. . Zemeros. 



2. Lower disco-celUdar nervule of posterior wings united with 



the upper median nervule at some little distance from 

 its base. 



a. Upper and lower disco-cellular nervules of posterior wings 



about equal in length. Abisara. 



aa. Lower disco-cellular nervule of posterior wings much 



longer than the upiier. * Stiboges. 



Geuus ZEMEROS. 



Zemeros, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. i. t. 21, f. 5 (1830) ; Westw. Gen. Dinru. Lcp. p. 418 (1851). 



Anterior wings somewhat triangular ; costal margin nearly straight, but slightly convex, outer 

 margin more or less convex, inner margin slightly ampliated and convex. Costal nervure robust, and 

 terminating near centre of costal margin ; first and second subcostal nervules emitted before and near 

 the termination of the cell ; third about midway between the end of cell and bifurcation of the fourth 

 and fifth nervules ; disco-cellular nervules irregularly concave, the lower uniting with the upper median 

 ner\iile near its base. Posterior wings irregular in shape, the outer margin being either convexly rounded 

 or waved and strongly angulated near the upper median nervule, the costal margin nearly straight or very 

 slightly convex. Precostal nervure strongly curved outwardly ; costal nervure very short ; subcostal 

 nervules bifurcating at upper extremity of cell ; lower disco-cellular nervule a little longer than the upper 

 and united with the common base of the two upper median nervules. Head small, with a frontal tuft 

 of hairs ; palpi minute, not visible above ; antennae somewhat short (narrowly annulated with white in all 

 the species examined), and terminating in a distinct club. 



This is a small genus, aud inhabits North-Easterii India and the Indo-Malayan region ; 

 but has neither been recorded from Ceylon, nor the Andaman or Nicobar Islands. 



If we admit all the described forms as reaching the artihcial canonicity of "species," then 

 it may be stated that about four species are known, though their amount of diversity is very 

 unequal. 



1. Zemeros albipunctata. (Tab. XVIIL, fig. 12 J .) 



Zemeros albipunctata, Butler, Cist. Eut. vol. i. p. 236 (187-1); Trans. Liun. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 545, 

 u. 2, t. Ixix, f. 10 (1877). 



Male and Female. Wings above reddish ochraceous or reddish-brown. Anterior wings with the 

 following black spots : — two crossing cell, one beneath cell near base, a curved series of five commencing 

 immediately beyond cell and directed inwardly, followed h\ a similarly curved series of seven spots, the 

 uppermost minute, and the lower two situate between the third median nervule and the submedian 

 nervure ; beyond these are a series of seven white spots, of which the four uppermost are largest aud most 

 distinct, and a submarginal series of seven linear black spots outwardly containing a small white spot ; 

 fringe alternately black and greyish. Posterior wings with the disk more or less covered with similarly 

 sized and shaped black spots as on anterior wings, and also with a submarginal series of spots and the 

 fringe as on those wings. Wings beneath a little paler than above, the black spots somewhat more 



* Taken from Mr. Butler's description, as I have been unable to examine a specimen belonging to the genus. 



