34. LYCAINIDA, ZARONA. 
Pithecops, Horsfield, and Ua, mihi, as faras I am aware. The genus Zarona contains only 
two species known to me at present, and shares with the otherwise totally dissimilar genera 
Dacalana, Moore, and Lifhyra, Westwood, the unusual feature of having four subcostal nervules 
(excluding the terminal portion of the subcostal nervure often called an additional subcostal 
branch) to the forewing in both sexes. Mr. Distant says that this character is found also in his 
genus Deramas, which I have not seen. The male of Z. jasoda, mihi, is very similar in general 
appearance to some species of the genus Povitia, the bright colouring of the upperside being 
blue in some lights, green in others. It has no secondary sexual characters. The genus Portiza 
contains some of the most beautiful species of the Zycenide, the males being as richly glossed 
on the upperside with blue in some lights, as they are with emerald-green in others. When the 
species of this genus come to be carefully examined as to their structure, it will probably be found 
that many of them do not belong to Poritia, but have the neuration of one or other of the genera of 
the group. The males of Pori/ia have well-developed sexual tufts of hairs on the wings. I am 
unaware if Pseudodipsas possesses similar characters. All the species of the group seem to be 
very rare. 
Genus 99.—ZARONA, nov. (FRONTISPIECE and PLATE XXV). 
FOREWING, cos¢a slightly and regularly arched, apex rather acute, ouler margin nearly 
straight below the apex in the male, convex in the female, zzzer margin straight ; costal nervure 
extending beyond the apex of the discoidal cell; first subcostal nervule given off from the 
subcostal nervure about two-thirds of the length of the cell from the base, completely anas- 
tomosed with the costal nervure ; second subcostal with its base nearer to that of the first than 
to that of the upper discoidal ; ¢4zrd subcostal with its origin about midway between the apex 
of the cell and of the wing ; fourth subcostal given off midway between the base of the third 
and the apex of the wing, reaching to the apex of the wing ; terminal portion of subcostal 
nervure extending to the outer margin below the apex of the wing ; middle disco-cellular nervule 
very short, with an apparently common origin with the upper discoidal ; dower disco-cellular 
about three times as long as the middle disco-cellular ; second median nervule emitted a little 
before the lower end of the cell. HINDWING, entire, elongated in the male, the outer margin very 
straight in the male, giving the wing a truncated appearance, the wing broader in the female, the 
outer margin evenly rounded ; first subcostal nervule given off rather near to the apex of the 
cell ; “per disco-cellular nervule short, straight, outwardly oblique ; /ower disco-cellular longer 
than the upper, concave, slightly outwardly oblique; second median nervule given off immediately 
before the lower end of the cell. Bopy moderately robust, abdomen rather short ; antenne 
short, with a long, gradually-formed club. Male with no secondary sexual characters. Type, 
Zarona jasoda, mihi. 
There may be some slight inaccuracies in the diagnosis of this genus given above, as it has 
been drawn up from the two unique type specimens on which the genus is based, and which I 
have consequently only been able to examine by clarifying with benzine. The genus, though evi- 
dently closely allied to Deramas, Distant, may be known by the males possessing no tuft of long 
hairs in the discoidal cell of the hindwing on the upperside. The shortness of the middle disco- 
cellular nervule of the forewing is unusual, but this may also be a feature of Deramas. 
Key to the species of Zarona. 
A. Male, underside, both wings with the ground-colour deep glossy purplish-brown; hindwing with discal 
band slightly outwardly marked with grey. 
630. Z. JASODA, Burma. 
B. Female, underside, both wings with the ground-colour dull reddish-purplish ; hindwing with discal 
band not outwardly margined with grey. 
631. Z. ZANELLA, Burma, 
630. Zarona jasoda, de N. (PLATE XXV, Fig. 144 ¢). 
Z. jasoda, de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lvii, pt. 2, p. 280, n. 9, pl. xiv, fig. 5, wale (:888), 
Hapitat: Pegu Hills, Burma. 
EXPANSE: 4, I°4 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘*MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings black. Forewing with a streak on 
either side of the median nervure, a small patch filling the base of the second median and a 
