304 LYCAENIDZ. ZEPHUYRUS. 
forewing pale rufous-brown, an oblong spot at the end of the cell of darker brown, 
bordered on both sides with white ; a broad white transverse band beyond the middle, also 
bordered with darker brown; a broad submarginal band of white traversed by an indistinct 
line of pale Lrown, the margin dark brown. A4indwing white, with the base pale rufous-brown, 
crossed before the middle by a broad short band of dark brown, with below it a round spot, 
and near the abdominal margin a lunular spot of the same colour, a small brown spot between 
the lunular spot and the base of the wing; crossed beyond the middle by a broad band of 
brown marked near the anal angle by lunular white spots, a spot near the base of the tail, 
and also at the anal lobe, black bordered with orange; the outer margin and a submarginal 
band brown.” (Hew7tson, |. c.) 
I should describe the upperside of the forewing as being fuscous ; the discoidal cell, a small 
spot at the base of the second median interspace, a larger one at the base of the first median 
interspace, along streak filling the basal two-thirds of the submedian interspace and the 
same portion of the internal area, rich shining purple blue ; a large orange spot placed 
outwardly against the disco-cellular nervules, and a rather larger quadrate spot at the middle 
of the second median interspace. 
Z. katura is aimost certainly the hitherto unrecognised female of 2, ataxus, Doubleday 
and Hewitson. The probable reason why this has not been suggested before is that the 
brown underside of Z. atura presents such a different aspect from that of Z. ataxus, 
which is shining silvery white. The markings too are very different, though they occupy 
the same positions exactly. Inthe Indian Museum, Calcutta, is a small specimen taken by 
Mr. A. Grahame Young in the Kulu Valley, and two without history ; in Colonel Lang’s 
collection are two specimens taken in July at 7,000 feet in Masuri ; and Mr. P. W. Mackin- 
non has sent me a single female taken in June, 1884, and another in June, 1888, also in Masuri. 
It will be noted that all the Masuri specimens were taken at the same time as the specimens 
of Z. ataxus mentioned above. 
867. Zephyrus absolon, Hewitson, 
Difsas absolon, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 65, n. 3, pl. xxx, figs. 11, 12, male (1865). 
Hasitat: India (Hewztso2). 
Expanse: &, 1°6 inches, (actual measurement of figure 1°8 inches). 
DESCRIPTION : ‘* MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings gold-green. Forewing with the apical 
half dark brown. Azudwing with the margins brown. UNDERSIDE, doth wigs rufous-brown. 
Forewing with a large triangular space of orange on the inner margin, a pale linear rufous 
spot at the end of the cell, a transverse linear band of white beyond the middle bounded 
inwardly by rufous-brown, and a submarginal rufous band terminating beyond the middle 
in two dark brown spots. Azndwing crossed obliquely at the middle by a linear band of 
white, taking the form of a V near the anal angle, crossed beyond the middle by a broad 
rufous band bordered on both sides with indistinct lunular white spots, the black spots near 
the base of the tail and at the anal angle bordered with orange, the margin white. Cz/ia 
rufous.” 
‘‘This beautiful species, with the brilliant green of D. sla [=Z. syla], Kollar, and 
D. ataxus, Doubleday and Hewitson, on the upperside, has on the underside a near resemblance 
to D. betule, Linneus” [a common European and Northern Asiatic species]. (Hewitson, |. c.) 
I have never seen this species. From Hewitson’s figure of it the apex and outer margin 
of the forewing onthe upperside are much more broadly black than in any other male Indian 
Zephyrus, and the ‘‘rufous-brown” underside is also distinctive. 
868. Zephyrus duma, Hewitson. 
Difsas duma, Hewitson, Ill, Diurn. Lep., Suppl., p. 15, n. 14, pl. vi Suppl., fig. 15, male (1869); id., 
Staudinger, Ex. Schmett., p. 273, pl. xcv, meade (1888), 
Hasitar: North India (Hewitson) ; Sikkim (Staudinger) ; Sylhet. 
EXPANSE: @, 1°75 to 2:00; ?, 1°60 to 1°80 inches. 
