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the middle in a bent fascia fuscous margined with whitish, FEMALE. UepPERSIDE darker, 
with an obsolete disco-cellular litura and the external border inwardly diffuse fuscous. 
UNDERSIDE as in the male, but all the spots barely blackish.” (Ze/der, 1. c.) 
“Tn spite of Felder’s very poor figure of the upperside, I have never seen any other than 
this species that could be identified with Z. diluta; it has hardly a feature in common with 
Z. maha, which is much nearer to Z chandala.” (Butler, 1. c. in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.) 
Most probably the type specimens of this species were collected by the late Dr. F. 
Stoliczka in Calcutta, Placing then Calcutta specimens of Z. diluta by the side of Simla 
specimens of Z, maha, I cannot imagine how Mr. Butler could have written that the two 
species have ‘‘hardly a feature in common.” Specimens of the dry-season form of both 
(Simla 9th November, Calcutta 8th January) are identical ; were the tickets removed I do not 
think any one could sort them into the two localities. It is more than probable that Dr. Felder 
did not recognise Z. maha when he described Z. diluta, nor is he likely to have known of Z. 
chandala, which was described in the same year as his species. Mr. Butler describes a variety 
from Hassan Abdal, gth May, Thundiani, 29th August, 1886, both in North-West India, a 
“ Underside, both wings greyer ; black spots with narrower white margins.”” (1. c. in Ann. and 
Mag. of Nat. Hist.) 
697. Zizera squalida, Butler. 
Lycena squalida, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, p.4; Zizera squalida, id., Ann, and Mag, of 
Nat. Hist., sixth series, vol, i, p. 148, n. 53 (1888). 
HABITAT: Cachar ; Campbellpore, 21st June ; Hassan Abdal, 18th July, 1886, (Butler) 
EXPANSE: 2, I°0 inch. 
DESCRIPTION: *‘ MALE. UPPERSIDE, oth wings vary in colour from silver-grey with 
a lilac gloss to smoky-grey with a faint bluish gloss. /orewing with a blackish external 
border, considerably narrower than in Z. di/u¢a, Felder, and more sharply defined internally. 
Hindwing, costal half brownish ; a marginal series of blackish spots. UNDERSIDE, doth wings 
scarcely differ from those of Z. maha, Kollar, excepting that the discal series of black spots on 
forewing forms a more or less pronounced angle below the second median nervule.” (Auéler, 
l. c. in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist.) FEMALE, “ Allied to Z. [=Z.] Larsandra, Moore, much 
larger, UPPERSIDE, 40th wings greyish-brown. Forewing sprinkled with lilac scales towards 
the base. ody blackish. Azéenne with white annulations. UNDERSIDE, doth wings sordid 
white, with black spots, bordered with pure white, arranged as in Z. karsandra and 
allies, but the discal series of the forewing less arched and smaller ; a submarginal series of 
stone-grey spots, and in front of them a series of lunules of the same colour.” (Bwfler, 1, c. 
in Trans, Ent Soc. Lond.) 
Mr. Butler has recently recorded this species from North-West India, and states that the 
type specimen from Cachar was a female. He now says that ‘‘ this form is intermediate in 
character between Z. maha and Z. diluta, excepting in the angulation of the discal series of 
spots on the underside ; it may possibly be a hybrid. We possess six examples.” If these six 
examples are all exactly alike, it is very unlikely that they are all hybrids, as I believe that in 
nature hybrids are extremely rare. Z. sgualida was first described with reference to Z. kar- 
sandra, which belongs to quite a different group from Z. maha and Z, diluta, to which Mr. 
Butler now compares it. 
698. Zizera ossa, Swinhoe. 
Z. ossa, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, p. 132, N. 57, pl. ix, figs. 11, weale ; 12, female. 
HaBiTAT: Poona, September to June ; Bombay, September to October, (Szwnhoe) 
EXPANSE: 6, 9, II inches. 
DESCRIPTION : ‘* UPPERSIDE, both wings pale bluish-grey, costa and outer border black ; 
the breadth of the outer border of the forewing differs a little in the male, but is much 
wider in the female, is diffused inwardly, and often occupies nearly half the wing. UNper- 
SIDE, doth wings pale brownish-grey, with the markings as in Zizera maha, Kollar, and 7 
diluta, Felder.” 
