LYCANIDA, ZESIUS. 333 
The next genus, Ayfolycena, Felder, contains but three species in India, which occur in 
Sikkim, Assam, Burma, the Andamans and Nicobars, South India, and Ceylon ; two of these 
are found also in the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. The male of one species has a glandular 
discal patch of modified scales on the upperside of the forewing, the others do not possess any 
secondary sexual characters. /. ery/us, Godart, is deep blue above in the male, the female is 
smoky black. . ¢hecloides, Felder, and 1. nileivica, Moore, are reddish-brown on the upper- 
side in both sexes. The genus occurs throughout the Malay Peninsula, and probably also in 
Africa. 
The last genus of the subgroup is the C//iaria of Moore. The neuration is a little aberrant, 
as the first subcostal nervule of the forewing almost touches the costal nervure for some little 
distance, the two veins being inclined towards one another ; the males have no secondary sexual 
characters. All the species contained in the genus are small, and are more or less blue on the 
upperside in the males. The females of two out of the four species known to belong to the 
genus are dull brown on the upperside with no trace of blue coloration, and have the discal 
areas of both wings often whitish. CA/éaria occurs in the Himalayas, Assam, Burma, Bombay, 
and the Andaman Isles. 
Gonus 140.—ZESIUS, Hiibner. (Prats XXVIII). 
Zesius, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 77 (1816) ; id., Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. 1, p. 100 (1881); Zalmenus 
(fart), Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 53 (1865). 
“‘ FOREWING, triangular ; costal mervure short, curved ; first subcostal nervule emitted 
at one-half, second subcostal at one-third before the end of the discoidal cell; ¢zxd@ subcostal 
trifid, emitted close to the end of the cell; fourth subcostal at one-half and f/¢2 subcostal 
at beyond two-thirds ; dsco-cellular nervule slightly recurved ; «per discoidal nervule from 
the end of the cell ; Zower discoidal from the middle of the disco-cellular nervule; discoid¢al 
cell short, broad ; second median nervule at one-sixth before the end of the cell, /ivs¢ median 
at nearly half before the end ; sudmedian nervure nearly straight. HINDWING, short, broadly 
produced hindward ; apical margin [costa] very convex, exterior margin angled at the end of the 
second and first median nervules and at the submedian nervure, with aslender ¢az/ from 
the first median nervule and submedian nervure in the male, and a third tail from the 
second median nervule in the female ; costal nmervure much arched from the base; first szbcostal 
nervule emitted at one-half before the end of the cell; désco-cei/ular nervules slightly obliquely 
recurved ; discoidal nervule from their middle; @iscoidal cell broad; second median nervule 
from one-sixth, and /s¢ median at nearly one-half before the end of the cell ; submedian nervure 
straight, zz¢ernal nervure much recurved. Bopy stout ; fa/pi long, slender, porrect, squamose, 
second joint projecting half beyond the head, third joint very slender, one-fourth the 
length of the second, pointed ;/egs squamose ; anfenne with a lengthened club gradually 
thickening tothe tip. Ayes smooth. Type, Zestus chrysomallus, Hiibner.” (Moore, 1. c.) 
In the forewing the costal nervure terminates opposite to the apex of the discoidal cell; 
the base of the second subcostal nervule is equi-distant between the bases of the first sub- 
~ costal and upper discoidal nervules, the third subcostal nervule originates about midway 
between the apices of the cell and of the wing, the fourth subcostal nervule (present 
jn the male only) is very short, shorter than the terminal portion of the subcostal nervure 
(which latter reaches the outer margin below the apex of the wing in the male), and is given 
off near to the apex of the wing; in the male the middle disco-cellular nervule is 
given off from the upper discoidal nervule close to its base, in the female the middle disco- 
cellular and upper discoidal nervules have a common origin ; the disco-cellular nervules are 
slightly concave, nearly upright, the middle one not quite as long as the lower; the second 
median nervule has its origin a little before the lower end of the cell. In the hindwing the 
disco-cellular nervules are of about equal length, the upper recurved, outwardly oblique, 
the lower slightly concave, nearly upright ; the second median nervule originates a little 
