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lower, slightly curved inwards ; the Imoer one curved outwards, united to the third branch 

 of the median nervure (which joins at an angle) at a distance from its base. Hindwing 

 with the costal nervure joining the margin at the middle of the wing ; subcostal nervure with 

 its first branch arising at its middle ; the discoidal cell closed obliquely ; the upper disco-cellular 

 nervule arising at a short distance below the first branch of the subcostal nervure ; the lower 

 one twice its length, joining the third median nervule at a short distance from its base." 

 (Hauitsou, 1, c.) 



Zipcetes is very closely allied to Callerebia ; structurally indeed they are almost identical, 

 but in style of markings they differ considerably. In Zipcetes there are no ocelli on the 

 upperside, but on the underside on the hindwing the ocelli are very large, irregular, and 

 enclosed in brilliant silvery bands. The male has no sexual patches or tufts on the wings, 

 and the sexes are similar in colour and style of markings. 



Only two species of Zipcetes are known, both of them Indian — one from North-Eastern 

 India, and the other from the hills of South India. Neither of them appear to be very com- 

 mon. 



Zey to the species of Zipcetes. 



A. Upperside dark brown, with no ocelli ; undersidb, hindwing with the ocelli large irregular, and enclosed 

 by brilliant silvery bands. 



a. Both wings with a broad transverse white band ; the ocelli of the hindwing enclosed by 



silvery bands in two groups. 



241. Z. SAITI8, South India. 



b. Dark brown, paler at the margins, but no white bands ; the ocelli of the hindwing enclosed 



by silvery bands in a single group. 



242. Z. BCVLAX, North-East India. 



241. Zipcetes SaitiS, Hewitson. (Plate XVII, Fig. 58 ? .) 



Zipatis saitis, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. iii, p. loo, pi Hypocista and Zipatis, fig. 6 (1863), male. 



Habitat : Hills of South-India. 



Expanse : ^,2*3 to 2'5 ; ? , 2-5 to 27 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside dark brown. Both wings crossed beyond the middle 

 by a band of white. Underside as above, except that the hindwing is ciossed by a band 

 of five ocelli [within the white band], with white pupils and rufous iris, bordered with silver ; 

 the first, fourth, and fifth small, the second large and with two pupils, the third half its size." 

 (Heiuitson, I. c). The silver border encloses the first and second ocelli in one group, and the 

 third, fourth, and fifth in another. The female is paler in colouration, larger, the white bands 

 wider, and with the wings somewhat broader. 



We have as yet only received Z. saitis from Mr. Harold Fergusson, who took it in 

 May and June at Mynall in the Ashamboo hills in Travancore at an altitude of ?,6oo feet. 

 It is also found in the Nilgiris and the Wynaad, and probably in the other hill ranges in the 

 south of the Peninsula, but appears to be nowhere common. 



The figure shows the upper and undersides of a female specimen from the Ashamboo 

 range in Travancore in Major Marshall's collection. 



242. Zipcetes SCylaZ, Hewitson. (Plate XVII, FiG. 62 ?.) 

 Zipcetis scylax, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. iii, p. 100, pi. Hypocista and Zipcetii, fig. 7 (1863). 



Habitat : Naga hills, Sylhet, Sikkim. 



Expanse : 2*3 to 24 inches. 



Description : " Upperside dark brown, paler towards the margins ; the outer margins 

 rufous, traversed by a submarginal black line. Underside as above, except that there are two 

 submarginal lines of black ; that the forewing has a band of five small ocelli, the pupils blue, 

 the iris rufous ; and that the hindwinghas a band of five ocelli, the pupils blue, the iris rufous ; 

 the first, fourth, and fifth small, the fourth oval with two pupils, the third large, all surrounded 

 by a common band of silver," (//avitso/t, 1. c). There is also a less brilliant silver band 



