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DESCRIPTION : ‘‘ MALE. UPPERSIDR, doth wings brilliant gold-green. Forewing with the 
costal margin near the apex and the outer margin dark brown [black]. Azxdwing with one 
tail, the margins dark brown [black], rather broad. UNDERSIDE, doth wings grey-brown, 
with a linear spot at the end of the cell, crossed beyond the middle by a broad band of dark 
brown, bordered outwardly with white, and below this a second band of brown. Aindwing 
with a linear band of brown, bordered inwardly with white near the base, the band at the 
end of the cell touching the broad medial band, the lobe black, crowned with orange, the 
black spot near the base of the tail circled with orange, the space between the lower brown 
band and the outer margin irrorated with black and white, a submarginal line of white.” 
“This may be only a variety of D. [=Z.] smaragdina, [Bremer, from Amurland and 
Japan]. Itis, however, much larger, and, instead of having on the underside, as Bremer 
describes his species, a band ef white bordered with brown, this has a broad brown band 
slightly bordered with white. Mr. Moore has an example which does not agree with either of 
these, shewing that there are either several very closely-allied species, or that D. smaragdina 
is subject to much greater variety than is usual in this group.” (Hewetson, 1 c.) 
FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, Goth wings dark brown; cilia paler brown. forewing with a discal 
oblique orange band beyond the cell, divided by the black veins, a little variable in size. 
UNDERSIDE, doth wings marked as in the male, but the ground-colour dark brown instead of 
grey-brown, and with no silvery gloss. 
The males are fairly common in Sikkim in July, the females are very much rarer. I do 
not know any other lecality for this fine species except Sylhet, Colonel C. Swinhoe having 
two male specimens in his collection from that region. 
869. Zephyrus syla, Kollar. 
; Thecla syla, Kollar, Hiigel’s Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt.2, p. 414,n 4, pl. iv, figs. 7, 8, #eale (1848); id., Doherty, 
Journ. A, S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 130, n. 153 (1886) ; Difsas syla, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. 
E. I. C., vol. 1, p. 30, n. 36 (1857) ; id., Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 508, n. 114, also p. 774; D. sila, 
Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 64, n. 1, pl. xxvi, fig. 3, female (1865) ; Dépsas pholus, Doubleday (ined.), List 
Lep. B. M., pt. 2, p. 25 3 Amblypodia euphranor, id. (ined.), |, c. (1847). 
HasitaT: Himalayas (Xo//ar); Northern India (Hewitson) ; Simla (Westwood) ; N.-W. 
Himalayas, Darjiling (JZoore) ; Dhankuri, 9-11,000 feet, N.-W. Kumaon (Doherty). 
EXPANSE: 6, 1'4 to 1°83 2, 1'4 to 1°7 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: MALE. * UpPERSIDE, doth wings greenish-bronze, with the border black. 
Cilia whitish, UNDERSIDE, doth wings whitish silvery, with abbreviated fuscous fascize. 
Hindwing one-tailed, with two golden ocelli at the anal angle, spotted with black.” (Xodlar, 
lc.) MALE. Uppersivk, doth wings brilliant shining metallic green with a bronzy lustre in 
some lights, the outer margins broadly and evenly black. Himdwing with the costal and 
abdominal margins broadly fuscous, ¢az/ black with white cilia on its inner side and the tip white. 
UNDERSIDE, doth wings silvery greenish-whitish, with pale fuscous markings. ovewing witha 
broad spot on the disco-cellular nervules, a discal band from the costa to the first median 
nervule, attenuated posteriorly, a broad submarginal band increasing in width posteriorly. 
Hindwing with a fine transverse line near the base of the subcostal interspace, two fine double 
lines at the end of the discoidal cell, a discal straight line fromthe costa to the first median 
nervule, attenuated posteriorly, outwardly defined witha fine white line, posteriorly conti- 
nued ina W-shaped line to the abdominal margin; an evenly curved submarginal band, 
with a round black spot beyond it in the first median interspace surrounded by a broad 
orange ring, and another black spot at the anal angle, inwardly with an orange patch, 
which latteris continued asa narrow line for a short distance up the abdominal margin. 
Cilia white throughout, on the underside of both wings with a fine blackish anteciliary line. 
FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing with the costa somewhat broadly, the apex and outer margin 
widely black, the rest of the wing shining bluish-purple crossed by the black veins ; a pale 
bluish or whitish patch beyond the end of the cell; with another less prominent patch 
placed outwardly below it in the second median interspace ; sometimes a small orange 
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