118 LYCANIDE. ZIZERA. 
7o1. Zizera mora, Swinhoe. 
Z. mora, Swinhee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1884, p. 506, n, 25, pl. xlvii, fig. 2. 
Hasirat: Karachi, June, 1879 ; June, 1882. 
EXPANSE: Io inch (from the figure). 
DescrIPTION: ‘ Similar in shape and colour above and below to Z. 4arsandra, Moore, but 
larger ; the markings below are very different and quite distinct. UNDERSIDE, forewing with a 
black spot within the cell and a black mark at the end of the cell, and beyond this a row of six 
black thick longitudinal streaks between the veins, spear-shaped with the points outside, running 
from near the costa to near the hinder margin, and a small longitudinal subcostal streak slightly 
above and behind this row. Aindwing with a subcostal spot one-third from the base, a streak 
within the cell, another adjoining a mark at the end of the cell, and a whorl of streaks outside 
cofresponding to the row onthe forewing—-the first streak subcostal, very long, the second a 
little shorter, the next four less than half the length, and three more mere spots, each lessening 
in size ; all the streaks and spots deep black, surrounded with white and distinctly separated 
from each other, giving the outer row of streaks on both wings the appearance of being stamped 
on a broad white band. oth wings with a submarginal row of spots slightly darker than the 
ground-colour of the wings on a greyish ground.” 
**T thought at first it was merely an aberration of Z. karsandra, Moore ; but as I have 
taken examples two years running, marked exactly similarly, and not at any other period of the 
year, it is clearly a distinct form. The Calcutta Museum has also a specimen received from 
Karachi.” (Swinhoe, 1. c.) 
Z. moraisa ‘‘ sport” or aberration of Z. lysimon, Hiibner, such as frequently occurs amongst 
the Lycenide, as has been pointed out with regard to the genus Zycena by Dr. Lang as follows : 
‘¢ Variations very frequently occur. On the underside the spots are very liable to enlargement 
or coalescence, or to be elongated into dashes or streaks, often producing a very remarkable 
appearance.”* In the description of Z. mora, Colonel Swinhoe does not give the sexes of the 
specimens he describes ; they are probably females however, The one referred to in the Indian 
Museum, Calcutta, is a female, and has the spots of the underside even more curiously shaped 
and enlarged than the specimen figured. I possess another female of the same type from 
Bholahat, Malda, and a male from the Hanna Pass, 6,000 feet, taken in September by 
Colonel A. M. Lang, which shows a tendency towards the elongation of the spots. 
7oz. Zizera gaika, Trimen. (PLATE XXVI, Fic, 174 2). 
Lycena gaika, Trimen, Trans, Ent. Soc. Lond., third series, vol. i, p. 403 (1862) ; idem, id., South-Afr. 
Butt., vol. ii, p. 50, n. 143 (1887) ; Zzzera gaika, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1884, p. 484, n. 16; Lycena 
dysimon, Wallengren (zec Hiibner), Kong. Svens. vet.-akad. Handl., second series, vol, ii, Lep. Rhop. Caffr., 
Pp. 39, n. 8 (1857); id., Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Aust., vol. ii, p. 256, n. 158, pl. iv, fig. 7, sale (1866); ZL. pyemea, 
Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent., vol. xix, p. 163, n. 50, pl. vii, fig. 3 (1876) ; Zizera pygm@a, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, 
p. 79, pl. xxxv, figs. 5, 5a, male (1881) ; idem, id., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 2453 id., Butler, 1. C., 1883, p. 
149, 0. 17 ;id, Swinhoe, |. c., 1884, p. 507, n. 26 ; idem, id., Il. c., 1885, p. 132, n. 60 ; idem, id., 1886, p. 427, n. 
46 ; id., Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 39 (1886) ; id., Doherty, Journ. A S. B., vol. lv, 
pt. 2, p. 133, n. 175 (1886) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 454, 3, woodcut no, 126, sade (1886). 
HapitaT: South and South Tropical Africa, Aden, Western Himalayas, continental 
and peninsular India, Ceylon, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Andaman Isles, Sumatra, Java. 
EXPANSE: 6, $, ‘6 to 10 inch. 
DEscRIPTION : “ MALE. UPPERSIDE, 40th wings pale blue, a narrow brownish-grey 
border on the outer margin. Ci/ia whitish. UNDERSIDE, both wings whitish-grey, with minute, 
whitish-ringed, blackish spots ; a thin, greyish, whitish-edged mark closing the discoidal 
cell ; a transverse row of spots beyond the middle (that of the forewing strongly curved, com- 
mencing with two minute spots on the costa before the middle, and reaching to the submedian 
nervure ;—that of the hindwing composed of eight spots, from the costa about the middle 
to the inner margin) ; two dentate, submarginal, lunular, greyish, whitish-edged lines ; 
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* Butt. of Eur., p. 98 (1884), 
