go2 LYCANID#. ZEPHYRUS. 
obsolete before it reaches the costa. A/zndzwng with a faint darker line defining the disco- 
cellular nervules ; a discal sinuous macular fascia composed of narrow fuscous fragments 
outwardly defined with whitish placed between the veins ; a submarginal increasing series of six 
fuscous lunules placed between the veins ; an anteciliary fuscous line, becoming obsolete 
towards the costa. Cilia white, becoming fuscescent towards the apex of the forewing. 
This beautiful insect differs from every Indian species of the genus in possessing no 
filiform tail to the hindwing ; the markings of the underside are also entirely peculiar, On 
the upperside it is hardly distinguishable from Z. sy/a, Kollar, It is probably nearest to 
“ Thecla” saphirina, Staudinger,* from the island of Askold, Corea, and Yezo, Japan, which 
however has a distinct though short tail, the outer black marginal border of the forewing on the 
upperside very much narrewer, and on the underside of the hindwing some yellow sub- 
marginal markings towards the anal angle, which are entirely wanting in Z. £Aasia, 
Described from a single example in the collection of the Revd. Walter A. Hamilton. 
864. Zephyrus zoa, de N. 
Z. zoa, de Nicéville, Journ, Bomb, Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. iv, p. , n. 6, pl. A, fig. 3, ale (1889). 
Hasitat: Sikkim. 
EXPANSE: ¢&, 2'0 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “MALE. UPPERSIDE, Joh wings black. Forewing with all but 
the outer margin (which is somewhat broadly and evenly of the ground-colour) and the 
veins (which are black) clothed with powdery rich metallic iridescent dark green scales (ex- 
actly as in //erde viridipunctata, mihi) ; this colour in some lights is quite invisible. ind- 
ewing with a patch of similar green scales in the middle of the wing, the costa and outer 
margin being broadly of the ground-colour, the abdominal margin a little paler fuscous, 
UNDERSIDE, 40th wings dull fuliginous black. Forewing with a deeper black disco-cellular 
mark outwardly defined by a fine silvery white line ; an indistinct, somewhat broad, straight, 
blackish discal band from the costa to the first median nervule outwardly defined by a 
fine silvery white line ; an indistinct blackish submarginal band which widens out on either 
side of the first median nervule, and is there rather prominent. Azndzwing with a short 
blackish bar near the base of the costal interspace inwardly defined by a fine silvery white 
line; a narrow disco-cellular line outwardly surrounded with white, the usual W-shaped 
discal prominent line, silvery white inwardly, slightly defined by a narrow blackish line; 
the outer margin broadly sprinkled with white scales ; a prominent marginal large oval deep 
black spot circled with orange in the first median interspace, an anal deep black spot 
crowned with orange, which latter colour extends on one side to the first median nervule, 
on the other in a narrow line for some short distance up the abdominal margin, where it is 
inwardly bounded by a fine black line and then by a line of turquoise-blue ; a fine anteci- 
liary white line, obsolete towards the apex. Zzorax above anteriorly clothed with 
ferruginous hairs in some lights, posteriorly with green hairs ; abdomen black above, pale 
fuscous below.” 
“This species belongs to the group which contains Zhecla [Zephyrus] tsangkie, Oberthiir, 
and 7. desgodinsi, Oberthiir,¢ from Thibet, but appears to be quite distinct from either. It 
differs from the former in being larger ; it has no brilliant blue spots on the margin of the 
hindwing on the upperside on either side of the tail, and the colour of the underside is black, 
not brown. From the latter (of which the female only is known) it also differs in the ground- 
colour of the underside, and in the discal white lines being straight, instead of outwardly convex, 
as in. Z. desgodinsi, and in the presence of the bar in the costal interspace on the hindwing, 
7. diamantina, Oberthiir,= which is also of this group, appears to have the green colour 
on the upperside of the male less powdery, and extended much nearer to the outer margin. 
* Mémoires sur les Lépidoptéres, vol. iii, p. 135, pl. xvi, figs. 4 male ; cmadle (1887) ; id., Pryer, Rhop. 
Nihonica, p. 14, n. 37, pl. iv, figs. gA, male; 9B, female (1888), oR i anf 2882) 6 Ada BSP 
t Etudes d’Ent., vol. xi, pp. 20, 21, pl. vii, figs. 54-56 (1886). 
De | » Vv, p. 18, n. 45, pl, i, fig. 1, made (1880), 
