LYCANIDZ. ZEPHYRUS. 303 
It was described from the Isle of Askold. From the description alone Z. 2oa appears 
to come evry near to ‘ Difsas’ japonica, Murray,* but that species is said to have mo discos 
cellular markings on the underside, and has also a third black spot with whitish scales in 
the middle between the two large ones on either side of it on the underside of the hind- 
wing near the anal angle not found in my species. To judge of it also from the late Mr. 
H. Pryer’s figures in his “ Rhopalocera Nihonica ” the male has the green coloration of 
the upperside much more extensive than in Z. zoa,.”’ 
“A single specimen has been obtained by Mr. A. V. Knyvett on Tiger’s Hill, above Dar- 
jiling, at 8,000 feet elevation, on 26th June, 1888,” (de Micéville, 1. c.) 
865. Zephyrus ataxus, Doubleday and Hewitson. 
Difsas ataxus, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen, Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 489, n. 2, pl. Ixxiv, fig. 7, male 
(1852); id., Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E, I. C., vol. i, p. 3, mn. 37 (1857); id., Hewitson, Ill. 
D.urn. Lep., p. 65, n. 2, pl. xxvi, fig. 6, mexZe (1855) ; Thecla ataxus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, 
P. 247. 
HABITAT: Simla (/Vestwood) ; North India and Darjiling (Horsfield and Moore) ; Northern 
India (Hew2tson) ; N.-W. Himalayas (A@oore). 
EXPANSE: @, 1°7 to 2’o inches. 
DescriPrion: MALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing with the apex broadly and outer margin 
less broadly and evenly black, the rest of the surface brilliant metallic green, Aindwing with 
the costa and abdominal margin broadly pale fuscous, the outer margin broadly black bearing 
a fine white line towards the anal angle, the rest of the surface brilliant metallic green ; ¢ail 
black, tipped with white. Cz/ia pure white throughout except from the first median nervule 
to the anal angle of the hindwing, where they are dusky, and along the inner margin of the 
forewing, where the cilia are very long and fuscous. UNDERSIDE, doth wings shining silvery 
white. ovewzng with the disco-cellular nervules defined with a fuscous line, a straight discal 
fuscous line from the costa to the third median nervule, often obsolete, two irrorated fuscous 
spots near the margin in the first median and submedian interspaces, the lower spot 
often absent. 4zudwing with a broad fuscous line on the disco-cellular nervules, sometimes 
continued to the costa, a line parallel to it nearer the base of the wing sometimes connected 
at its lower end to the outer line, a spot below near the middle of the submedian interspace, 
still another spot below the latter recurved upwards in the internal interspace, and a small 
round spot above this last on the abdominal margin; a double submarginal lunular fascia, 
beyond which in the first median interspace is a round black spot surrounded with deep 
orange, the anal lobe black, outwardly defined by an orange patch, which latter is continued 
as a narrow line for a short distance up the abdominal margin. Cz/éa on both wings white, 
with a very fine black anteciliary line, which becomes broader and more prominent towards the 
anal angle of the hindwing. 
; 7. ataxus is a very rare species. In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, is a North Indian 
specimen from the old East Indian Museum, and three without history. In Colonel Lang’s 
collection are four specimens taken at Masuri, 7,000 feet, in July, 1868, and Mr. P. W. 
Mackinnon has sent me a single specimen taken in June, 1884, and another in June, 1888, 
also at Masuri, which are all the specimens I have seen, I did not come across it in four years 
collecting in Simla, nor have I ever seena Darjiling specimen. It is almost certain that the 
next species, Z, katwra, Hewitson, is the hitherto unknown opposite sex of Z, ataxus. 
866. Zaphyrus katura, Hewitson. 
Dipsas katura, Hewitson, ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 65, n. 4, pl. xxvi, figs. 1,2, female (185s). 
Hasitat: India (Hew2tson) ; Kulu, Masuri. 
EXPANSE: 9, 1°55 to 1°85 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : “‘ FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings brown. Forewing pale blue from the base 
to the middle, followed by two small spots of orange. Aindwing rufous-brown. UNDERSIDE, 
* Ent. Month, Mag., vol, xi, p. 160 (1875). 
