-334 LYCASNIDA. ~ -ZESIUS: 
before the lower end of the cell. In both sexes the tail from the third median nervule is 
the longest, twice as long as the one from the submedian nervure, the additional tail present 
in the female only from the second median nervule is the shortest of all. 
In this genus the sexes are equally balanced, the male has an extra subcostal nervule 
to the forewing, the female has an extra tail to the hindwing. It is strange that Mr. Moore: 
should have overlooked the dissimilarity in the number of subcostal nervules to the forewing 
which exists in the opposite sexes of the type species of this genus, though it was pointed out 
by Mr. Hewitson. The dissimilarity in the coloration of the sexes on the upperside is also 
remarkable, the male being brilliant coppery, the female dull blue and black, The genus contains 
but a single species, which occurs in the Malda district of Bengal, several parts of the Bombay 
-Presidency, in Ganjam, throughout south India, and in Ceylon. The transformations of 
Z. chrysomallus are described when treating on that species. 
890. Zoesius chrysomallus, Hiibner. (PLare XXVIII, Fics. 208 $, 2099). 
Z. chrysomallus, Hiibner, Zutr. Ex, Schmett., figs. 301, 302, male (1823) ; id., Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, 
p. 100, pl. xl, figs. 4, male; 4a, JSemale ; 4b, larve and pupa (1881) ; Chrysophanus? chrysomallus, Westwood, 
Gen, Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 499, n. 28 (1852); Dipsas chrysomailus, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. 
Mus. E. I. C., vol. i, p. 33, n- 41 (1857); Lalmenus chrysomallus, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 55» 
n, 5, pl. xxiv, figs. 4, 5, female (1865). 
Hapirat: Malda, Bombay, Ganjam, Nilgiris, Ceylon. 
EXpANSE: 6, 1°3 to 1°73; 2, 1°6to I'9 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : ‘‘ MALE, UPPERSIDE, doth wings pale cupreous, outer margins brownish ; 
at anal angle of Aimdwing three blackish spots. Three [two] tails. UNDERSIDE, doth wings 
pinkish creamy-white, a band composed of roundish pinkish spots disposed irregularly across 
the wings. Forewing with five, and hindwing with eight pinkish spots towards the base ; anal 
angle with three spots, the two outer ones black banded above with red, and the middle 
one bluish ; near the outer margin is a line of indistinct marks ; extreme outer margin and tails 
pinkish. FEMALE larger, wings more square. “UPPERSIDE, doth wings brown, tinged with 
bluish at the base ; spots on the UNDERSIDE as in the male, but of a brighter colour.” (JAZvore,, 
1, c. in Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C.) 
“Larva elongated, dorsally thickened, sloping at both ends; green, the segments with 
lateral purple-brown small pointed tubercles, which are stouter and longer on the anterior seg- 
ments ; a pale yellowish lateral line between the tubercles. Earlier stage purple-brown. Feeds 
on Zerminalia. PuPA green, spotted with purple-brown.” (dZoore, 1. c. in Lep. Cey.) 
This species is quite unmistakable, having no near allies, but I give as a foot-note a more 
detailed description of it.* Mr. W. H. Irvine has taken it in large numbers at Bholahat in 
the Malda district of Bengal, a singularly isolated locality in which to find it, and as far as 
I know it occurs nowhere in the’surrounding country for hundreds of miles. In the 
Bombay Presidency it occurs at Alibagh in January and March, also at Hasvira, Kolaba district, 
in January. It is found also in North Canara in September, in Ganjam, and in the Nilgiris 
in April at 2,000 feet elevation. In Ceylon it occurs at ‘‘Colombo on cashew-trees in the 
cinnamon gardens. Flight rapid, darting from tree to tree, often settling in the cashew and 
cinnamon leaves” (Hutchison). “Kandy, Hambantotte, Colombo, settles on rather high 
bushes ; when disturbed circles round and soon returns. Common’? (/Vade). 
* “© Mace. Uppersipk, doth wings pale cupreous-red, costal and outer borders narrowly brown, Hiadwing 
with three black spots from the anal angle bordered by a marginal slender greyish-blue line. UNpERstIoR, doth 
wings greyish buff-white. /orewing with two pale reddish-brown spots within the cell, another below the cell, 
a paler disco-cellular lunule, a transverse catenulated band, and a less distinct submarginal lunular line. 
Hindwing with two reddish-brown spots on the inner side of the costal nervure, two within the cell, two below 
the cell, one on the abdominal margin, a paler disco-cellular lunule, a broken catenulated discal band bent 
up at the lower end, and a submarginal lunular line; three anal black spots, the first and third with a red 
inner border, the middle spot almost obliterated by blue-grey speckles. Body and palpi above brown, FEMALE. 
UprersIvE, both wings violet-brown, the basal and discal medial areas, including the cell, pale blue AHindwing 
with an outer marginal slender black and white line, and blackish pale-bordered spots, the second and third 
anal spot darkest, the third bordered within by a red lunule; ¢az/s with red and white borders,’’ UNDERSIDE, 
both wings as in the male. (Moore, |. c. in Lep. Cey.) 
