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antennz are short, and very gradually clavate. I counted about forty joints in Zoxura and 
Looxylides, and thirty-five in Yasoda. The eyes are naked, the palpi are very long and porrect, 
the costa of the forewing is very convex, the two bifurcations of the median nervure of 
the forewing are very close together in the male. The legs are short, thick and scaly. The 
fore tarsi of the female are longer than the tibie in Zoxurva, shorter in the others. They 
are spinous, five-jointed, with the underside emarginate, scaleless, and finely pubescent, edged 
by lines of strong spines (less prominent in Zooxylides), the first joint about as long, or longer 
(Zoxura) than the others united; the pulvillus broad and truncate, with four terminal hairs, 
two minute, slender, hairy paronychia, and two small simple claws almost hidden. The 
fore tarsi of the male resemble those of Drufadia and ina less degree those of the Amély- 
podias ; they are slender, scaly, with two Jines of spines underneath (obsolescent in Zooxy- 
ides), ending in a mass of short spines bent ata right angle with the tarsus. The tarsus 
is not articulated, and is much shorter than the tibia ; in Zoxura there seem to be paronychia.* 
The tibia is shorter than the femur (except in Zoxura), and in Loxura has two long unequal 
appressed terminal spines, obsolescent in the other genera. Zooxylides has the first joint 
of all the tarsi greatly enlarged, the others tapering ; this is also the case to a less extent with 
Yasoda (but not in the fore feet of the male), while Zoxzva has them all filiform and regular.” 
‘© Fooxylides tharis, Hiibner, is a dominant Oriental species. It is placed by Distant in the 
genus Hyfolycena, Felder, from which the structure of the fore tarsi of the male separates 
it. Of its position in this group there cannot be much doubt.” 
I give belowt a description of the genus Oxy/ides of Hiibner, the type of which, 0. faunus, 
Drury, an East African species, is apparently the nearest ally of Zooxylides. 
As far as is known, Zooxylides has but a single species, which is found from Burma through 
the Malay Peninsula to Java. Mr. Doherty considers it to be a protected genus, and that 
where eocheritra gama, Distant, occurs, that species mimics it. 
976. Hooxylides tharis, Hiibner. (PLare XXIX, Fic, 231 2). 
Oxylides tharis, Hiibner, Zutr. Ex. Schmett., figs. 883, 884 (1837); Myrina tharis, Horsfield and Moore, 
Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C., vol. i, p. 47, n. 78 (1857) ; id., Hewitson, IIl., Diurn. Lep., p. 31, n. 12 (1863); Sithoxw 
tharis, Kheil, Rhop, Ins. Nias, p. 32, n. 108 (1884) 3 Hyfolycena tharis, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 257, n. 3, 
pl. xx, fig. 19, female (1885) ; Myrina pharis, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. Diuro. Lep., vol. ii, p. 476, 
n. 12, pl. Ixxiv, fig. 3, female (1852). 
HapsitAatT: India (Horsfeld and Moore) ; Chittagong Hill Tracts, Arakan and Bassein Dis- 
trict (Doherty), Province Wellesley, Perak, Sungei Ujong, Malacca, Johore, Nias Island, Java. 
EXPANSE: 6, 2, I’2 to 1°5 inches ; length of middle tail, °5 of an inch. 
DESCRIPTION : ‘‘ UPPERSIDE, doth wings brown. Forewing [hindwing] with a broad 
band from angle of abdominal margin across the wing to middle of exterior margin ; a spot 
near to, and the margin of anal angle, ¢az/s and broad cé/ia, pure white. UNDERSIDE, 
forewing chrome-red, basal half of Aindwing slightly paler, anal half white, with patches of 
black disposed at anal angle and between the veins along the exterior margin ; across the wing, 
from the abdominal margin to near the anterior angle (separating the red and white colours), 
isa zig-zag line.” (Moore, 1. c.) 
* “* Tn this group the paronychia of the fore feet are hard to find, being minute, deciduous, and partly 
concealed by hairs.’’ 
+ Genus Oxylides, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 77 (1816). MALe and FEMALE, Differ from Zooxy- 
lides, de Nicéville, in the FOREWING being shorter, afex and outer margin much more rounded, zz#er margin 
shorter ; second subcostal nervule with its base equi-distant between the bases of the first subcostal and upper 
discoidal nervules instead of being twice as far apart from the former as in Hooxylides ; middle disco-cellular 
nervule much shorter ; MALE with no secondary sexual characters. HinpwiNG with the first sudcostal nervule 
arising half as near to the apex of the cell as in Hooxylides; the upper disco-cellular nervule shorter; the 
internal nervure one-third shorter, owing to the much more shallow but longer excavation above the anal lobe ; 
tails similar. Eyes naked. Antenne with a well-formed distinct club quite different from the club in Zooxy- 
Zides, the joints apparently far less numerous, as the conspicuous white annulations are much wider apart. 
Type, the Papilio faunus of Drury, from West Africa. 
Dr. O. Staudinger has kindly sent me a pair of specimens of this species from Sierra Leone, from which the 
above description has been drawn up. The male is brillianly blue on the upperside, quite different from 
£. tharis, Hibner. 
