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a Group of Lycaenid Butterflies. 
var. sikkima. Mr. Druce has a specimen from Java, whence 
also Col. Swinhoe has specimens somewhat smaller; I 
have also one from Sumatra. This specimen was in Moore’s 
series of Z. maha, which it much resembles, but is very 
pale, almost white beneath. When I described dryina as 
a new species, I had not worked out the Zizeeriids, and 
supposed so large a form that was not maha must be new 
(as indeed it was, but not as a species); it did not occur 
to me that otis (i. e. sangra) could be so large, or labradus 
occur so far north. The male appendages prove clearly, 
however, that it is merely a local form of labradus. 
Having figured these it could not remain as a puzzle 
to any one else, had I failed to trace, as I now do, its real 
position myself 
The appendages of labradus will be better understood 
by a reference to figs. 25, 26, 27, 28 and 34, and to 
Plate B, fig. 2 in Proceedings for 1908, than by long 
description. The figures (when reproduced) will probably 
fail to show the minute teeth at the end of the clasp; 
on the end of the clasp to the right of fig. 26 nine 
minute teeth can be counted on the distal margin. 
These figures, with those of indica and gaika, show that 
the clasps of these are nearly as well seen on lateral com¬ 
pression of the appendages, as when trouble (with risk of 
damage) is taken to display them by antero-posterior 
compression after dividing the ring of the appendages. 
This contrasts with the facts concerning Zizeeria {maha, 
etc.). 
Indica. —As my account of sangra had to be somewhat 
comparative with indica I have already really dealt with 
indica. It very closely resembles karsandra beneath, differ¬ 
ing by the want of the cellular spot on the forewing, and 
the position of the second on the hindwing. 
One may remark here on the curious way in which 
these species run in pairs. 
Indica differs from sangra in the spotting, much as ossa 
differs from media, and as again karsandra diffei's from 
lysimon. One can hardly help theorising that lysimon 
is dividing, unless one admits that it has already done so, 
into these two species on precisely the same lines as the 
other two pairs have already done. 
The clasps in indica are not unlike those of labradus, 
but the larger process being comparatively short and 
simple in structure gives it at first glance an aspect of 
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