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as it always, as far as I know, has a moderate-sized white patch on the upperside of the forewing, 
none whatever on the hindwing ; the entirely dark hindwing combined with a white-patched 
forewing occurs however in some specimens from Calcutta, and has been described by Mr. 
Moore as characteristic of the female sex of . dharma from Ceylon, These are the features 
by which typical V. sa/mora and N. lucifer may be known. Mr, Doherty informs me that he 
observed no species of the genus in Upper Assam, but that one occurs rarely in East Java. 
The females are apparently marked much as are the males, The transformations of the genus 
are unknown. 
641. Moopithecops zalmora, Butler. (PLAre XXVI, Fic. 162°). 
Pithecops zalmora, Butler, Cat. Fab. Lep. B. M., p. 161 (1869); id., Moore, Proc. Zocl. Soc. Lond., 1899, 
p. 244; id., Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 134, n. 183 (1886); Meopithecops zalmora, de Nicéville, 
Journ. A. S. B., vol. liv, pt. 2, p. 46, n. 58 (1885); Lycena hylex, Doubleday and Hewitson (ec Fabri- 
cius), Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 496, n. 198, pl. Ixxvi, fig. 8 (1852); Péthecops hylax, Moore (nec Fabricius), 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 5873 Pithecofs dharma, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 72, pl. xxxiv, fig. 4; 
male (1881); Parapithecops gaura, id., Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 20 (1884); Meopithecops horsfieldi, 
Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 210, n. x, pl. xxii, fig. 15, sza/e (1884). 
Hasitat: N.-W. Hindlayas? Kumaon, Malda district, Calcutta district, Sikkim, Assam, 
Burma, Orissa, Nilgiris, Cannanore, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Kankaret (Burma) and Padang 
in Sumatra ( Z/wes); Java, Sumba, Sambawa, South-Eastern Borneo ( Doherty). 
EXPANSE: ¢ 92, °8 to I't inches, 
Wet-season form. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘“‘ MALE. UPPERSIDE, Joth wines dark purplish. Forewing with the apex 
and outer margin distinctly and broadly darker. Ci/éa dark on the forewing, greyish-white on 
the hindwing. UNDERSIDE, doth wings greyish-white. Forewing with the following brownish 
markings :—an oblique line extending from the costa to the upper discoidal nervule, followed 
by a broken transverse linear fascia, a more continuous submarginal linear fascia, between 
which and the outer margin are a series of linear spots, and an outer marginal line. Aindwing 
with a large blackish spot near the ap2x, and brownish markings as on the forewing. ody 
above and beneath more or less concolorous with the wings ; /egs greyish-white, more or less 
annulated with brownish.” (Dés¢az?, 1. c.) 
This form, the darkest of all, occurs in Calcutta in the middle of the rains (July and 
August), in the Malda district, and doubtless in other parts of India, and was described from 
Singapore by Mr. Distant under the name of \. horsfieldi. 
Dry-season form. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘*MALE and FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings brown. Forewing with a 
large white medial longitudinally-oval patch, occupying the middle of the wing from the middle 
of the disc to near the base; a small brown dentate spot at the upper end of the cell. Aéndwing 
with the apical and upper discal areas broadly white, and traversed by pale brown veins; a 
slender brown submarginal line enclosing a marginal row of brown spots. Cv/éa of forewing 
whitish posteriorly, of hindwing entirely white. UNDERSIDE, 0/2 wings greyish-white. 
forewing with a submarginal line composed of slender waved brown lunules, and a marginal 
line enclosing a row of small linear spots; a slender indistinct brown streak at the end of the 
cell, and three or four dots along the costal edge. A“vndwing with an irregular submarginal 
row of brown lunules,a marginal line enclosing a row of darker spots ; a black spot at the 
upper end of the submarginal line, and a subbasal row of three smaller more or less distinct 
black spots ; a slender brown streak at the end of the cell, Axnéeune black, ringed with white. 
[ Palgi| pale white beneath, third joint and tip of second black. Zegs white, banded with 
black.” (Aoore, 1. c.) 
This form was describel by Mr. Moore under the name of Parafithecops gaura from 
Calcutta and Assam, to which I add Bholahat in the Malda district and Orissa. It occurs in 
the height of the dry-season in Calcutta. 
Intermediate between these two extremes are typical MV. za/mora, Butler, and V. dharma, 
Moore, the former described without locality, the latter from Ceylon, They are found wherever 
