LYCANIDA, LIPHYRA. 489 
submarginal dusky band, a diseal macular broken ochreous band outwardly defined finely 
with black, a short similar band on the disco-cellular nervules. /orew/79 with the discal 
band composed of three distinct portions, the upper composed of three spots, the middle of two, 
which are shifted a little inwards, the lower portion ofone spot also shifted inwards, placed in 
the submedian interspace. /77zdwing with the discal band composed of three pairs of spots from 
the costa, then three or four single spots recurved to theabdominal margin ; the inner portion 
of the submarginal band bearing a bright yellow line from the second median nervule to the 
abdominal margin, the anal lobe black, a small round black spot on the margin in the first 
median interspace surrounded with brilliant metallic blue scales, a few of these scales in the 
submedian interspace. ody black above, bluish-white below. 
Described from a single example obtained by Mr. A. V. Knyvett on Observatory Hill, 
7,500 feet, in the station of Darjiling, on the 20th June, 1888. The markings of the underside 
are remarkably like those of a Chizaria, but the species has only one tail, and an additional 
subcostal nervwle to the forewing. 
The figure shews both sides of the male above described in the collection of Mr. A. V. 
Knyvett. Since the above was written, Mr. Knyvett has obtained a second male specimen, 
which he has generously presented to me, Mrs. Wylly has captured a single female, which now 
adorns my collection, and Mr. H. J. Elwes kindly sent me out the type specimen to examine. 
The eleventh division that I have made in the Indian Lycenid@ I have called the Ziphyra 
group. It contains a single most anomalous genus, which has four subcostal nervules to the 
forewing in both sexes, as inthe Indian genera Zavona, mihi, and Dacalana, Moore. It is 
also the giant of the family, the wings expanding over three inches. It is quite an ugly 
butterfly, but makes up for its want of beauty by its extreme rarity and its interesting structure. 
It occurs in Sikkim, Assam, the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
Genus 176.—-LIPHYRA, Westwood. (PLATE XXIX). 
Liphyra, Westwood, Proc, Ent. Soc. Lond., third series, vol. ii, p. 31 (1864); id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., 
Pp. 204 (1884) ; Stevosis, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. 1, p. 219 (1855). 
* Bopy, short, thick ; ead medium ; eyes large [smooth] ; Za/si minute, oblique, scarcely 
visible from above, the last joint oval, the apex acute ; avfeyne straight, the apical half 
gradually clavate ; /egs very short, thick, all six equal, perfect, the tibize all without spurs, the 
claws of the tarsi entire, not bifid, the pseudonychize conical, the pulvillus subbilobate. 
Wines, large, obtuse, without tails. FOREWING, with the szdcostal nervure four-branched, 
two branches before the apex of the discoidal cell, and two others equi-distant between the 
cell and the apex ; déscocdai cell closed. HINDWING, with the costal margin angulate ; disco¢dal 
cell terminated in an acute angle.” (Westwood, |. c.) 
** HEAD rather large. /Pa/pz scaly, rather slender, with the second joint very slightly 
extending in front of the head. Antenne very thick, rather short, gradually thickened. 
WINGs with large wide-spread scales, even and net tailed, quite entire, with rather long cz/ia 
(especially to the hindwing at the anal angle), FOREWING, with a rather narrow disco¢dal cell, 
reaching beyond half way up the costa, with the costal margiz very straight, especially at the 
base ; with the costal nervure very straight, the szdcosta/ nervure closely approaching to it, four- 
branched (in the female), with the third and fourth branches emitted at some distance beyond 
the end of the cell, the terminal part of this nervure running out to the exterior, 7.¢., apical 
margin ; with the superior [fer] discotdal nervule arising from the subcostal nervure beyond 
the end of the cell, the inferior {ower discoidal|—very close to the discoidal fold which is 
very well defined—issuing from almost the middle of the transverse [disco-cellular] nervule. 
HINDWING, very much folded along the internal margin, and covered densely above with 
scaly hairs; with the costal margin scarcely two-thirds the length of the internal margin, 
the w7ernal margin very sinuate below the middle ; with the costal nervure very straight 
after its basal curvature, ending at the very apex of the costal margin ; the azscotdal cell 
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