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cruciform spots placed between the uervules, bounded on each side by a marginal and submarginal 

 line, the last preceded by a disjointed series of linear streaks ; posterior wings similarly marked as anterior 

 wings, but with the series of spots larger and not cruciform. 



Female. Wings above blackish, with a broad white fascia crossing the disk of both wings, commencing 

 near the upper median nervule of the anterior wings, and continued across the posterior wings to about 

 centre of abdominal margin. Wings beneath as in male. 



Exp. wings, <? and S , 31 to 40 millim. 



Hais.— Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Wallace— coll. Godm. & Salv. ; Pinwill— Brit. Mus. ; Biggs— coll. 

 Dist. & Gosse).— Sumatra (Brit. Mus.). 



This species varies greatly in size, and the female is on the upper surface of a most 

 distinct and divergent character, closely resembling the general markings found in the genus 

 Castalius. The female also appears to be at least difficult of capture, as it is rare in collections, 

 and although I possess a specimen (unlocalised) I have never received it from the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



Genus ZIZERA. 



Zkera, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 78 (1881). 



Wings small. Anterior wings subtriangular, margins much as in Cyaniris ,- costal nervure extending 

 to about half the length of wing ; first subcostal nervule emitted at about half the length of cell and 

 impinging midway on the costal nervure, remaining subcostal nervules as in Cyaniris ; cell extending to 

 about half the length of wing, its apical half broad. Other characters much as in Cyaniris, but with 

 the legs less robust. 



This is a genus of small and short-winged butterflies, principally differing from the 

 preceding genus by the character and position of the first subcostal nervule of the anterior 

 wings. 



Zizera possesses a wide geographical area, indifferently known at present, but probably 

 extending from Continental India, Ceylon, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, throughout the 

 Malay Peninsula, and through the length and breadth of the Malayan Archipelago. 



Two species can only at present be enumerated as belonging to this fauna. Mr. Butler, 

 in his paper on the "Butterflies of Malacca," included under the genus Lijccma the Z. sangra, 

 Moore,* as received from both Malacca and Penang. The specimen, however, could not be 

 produced when our artist was at the British Museum, and consequently the species is omitted 

 here. I think, however, that the Z. pygmca, Snellen,! must occur in the Peninsula, as it is 

 recorded from Java, Sumatra, Ceylon, and, on the authority of Mr. Moore, I it was also 

 collected at the N.W. Himalayan hill-station of Dharmsala by the Rev. J. H. Hocking. 



1. Zizera lysizone. (Tab. XX., fig. 9 ^ .) 



Lycu,na Lysuune, SueUeu, Tijd. Ent. xis. p. 152, n. 49, t. 7, f. 2, 2 a (1876) ; Butl. Trans. Linn. See. ser. 2, 

 Zool. vol. i. p. 548, u. 2 (1877). 



Wmgs above pale violaceous ; anterior wings with the costal area pale brownish, the outer margin 

 (widest at apex) broadly dark brown ; posterior wings with the costal area broadly pale brownish, the 



* Trans. Liuii. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 548, n. 4 (1877). f Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 153, t. 7, f. 3 (1876). 



I Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 245. 



