64 LYCANID. NEOLYCANA, 
species placed in it, which have a wide range in the old world. C. /aius, Cramer, usually 
frequents bushes, while C. ¢rochilus, Freyer, is a grass-loving species. The next genus, 
Cyaniris, Dalman, differs structurally but slightly from the two genera which precede it, but the 
species of these three genera to an experienced eye have a peculiar facies of their own, 
which as a rule render them easily recognisable. Cyamnéris has an immense range in the 
Palzarctic region. and also occurs in the tropics in the Indo-Malayan region. All the species 
of the genus known to me frequent trees and bushes, they never settle on grass or live in open 
fields, but the males of many species are especially fond of sucking up moisture from damp 
spots on roads or paths, or by the sides of streams. The next genus, Zizera, Moore, differs 
structurally but slightly from the genera which precede it, but has a well-marked facies. 
It contains the smallest known butterflies, and probably occurs almost everywhere in the old 
world except in the Polar regions. It frequents open country, never I believe settling on 
trees or bushes. The two following genera, Azanus, Moore, and Orthomiella, mihi, differ 
considerably in structure from the four genera which come before them, as the middle portion of 
the first subcostal nervule of the forewing is entirely anastomosed with the costal nervure. 
As few writers have attempted to split up the old genus Zycena in the way that is done in this 
work, it is difficult for me to give the distribution, even approximately, of any of 
these new genera. However, as faras I know, Azanus appears to be confined to Eastern 
Africa, Syria, Aden, Biluchistan, and occurs almost throughout India to Ceylon. It is 
probable that the genus is found all over Africa. Ovthomiella is a monotypic genus, its single 
species having as yet been recorded from Sikkim only. I know nothing of the habits of 
these two last-named genera. None of the above-mentioned genera possess secondary sexual 
characters. 
Genus 107.-NEOLYCZENA, nov. (Plate XXVI), 
FOREWING, costa nearly straight, a little arched at base; afex rather acute; outer 
margin evenly convex ; it#wer margin slightly sinuous ; costal mervure ending opposite 
the apex of the discoidal cell ; first subcostal nervule originating a little beyond half the 
length of the cell from the base, well separated from the costal nervure ; second subcostal 
originating twice as far from the base of the first subcostal as from the base of the upper 
discoidal ; meddle disco-cellular nervule originating from upper discoidal just beyond its 
origin, inwardly oblique ; dower disco-cellular in the same straight line and the same length 
as the middle disco-cellular, both slightly concave ; second median nervule originating some 
distance before the lower end of the discoidal cell. IZINDWING, very broad, almost as broad as 
the forewing ; costa nearly straight, arched at base ; afex truncated ; outer margin slightly con- 
vex, almost straight ; abdominal margin straight ; costal mervure rather short ; first subcostal 
nervule originating some little distance before the apex of the cell, arched ; upper disco-cellular 
nervule outwardly oblique, concave ; /ower disco-cellular a little shorter than the upper, straight, 
upright ; second median nervule originating just before the lower end of the cell ; ézternal nervure 
recurved. /a/fi rather long, porrect, clothed with closely appressed scales, Pa/gi exactly half 
the length of the costa of the forewing, distinctly annulated with white, with a gradually-formed, 
moderate, rounded, rather long club. Type, Zycena sinensis, Alphéraky. 
The type species of Meolycena is abundantly distinct from the next genus, Lycena, 
Fabricius. In the forewing it has a subcostal nervule the less ; the second subcostal nervule 
originates much further from the base of the first subcostal than it does in Zycena, the middle 
disco-cellular nervule originates nearer the base of the upper discoidal, the disco-cellular nervules 
are inwardly oblique instead of upright ; in the hindwing the costal nervure is very much 
shorter, and the whole wing is proportionally broader. The genus should be easily recognisable, 
as it is the only one of the Indian Zycenide with two subcostal nervules to the forewing which 
has no tail to the hindwing, It probably contains more species than the single one here placed 
in it.* WV. sinensis, Alphéraky, is a sooty-brown insect on the upperside, without any markings 
* M. Oberthiir in Etudes d’ Entomologie, vol. vi, p. 13, n. 4 (1881) states of the female of Lycana tengstremi 
Erschoff, which occurs at Jaxartes, in Turkestan, and a!most certainly belongs to this genus, that it hasa 
