356 LYC^NIDi. 



Lycrcna squnlida, Butler, Tram. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 4; de N. 



'(Zixera) Butt. Ind. Hi, 1890, p. 115. 

 Zizera ossa, Swinhoe, P. X. S. 1885, p. 132, pi. 9, figs. 11, 12,c? $ . 



Wet-season brood. tf. Upperside : silvery light blue with a 

 satiny sheen in certain lights. Fore wing : the apical half of 

 the costa narrow ly and the terminal margin for varying widths 

 fuscous black, bounded outwardly on the latter by an obscure 

 anticiliary black line. Hind wing : the costa broadly, the termen 

 somewhat more narrowly fuscous black as in the fore wing, with 

 the width of this dark edging similarly variable ; in addition there 

 is a very diffuse and ill-defined subterminal series of spots darker 

 than the fuscous margin. Underside : brownish grey. Fore wing : 

 a spot in cell, a transverse lunule on the cliscocellulars, and a trans- 

 verse anteriorly inwardly curved series of eight discal spots, black ; 

 the transverse lunule and each spot encircled with a narrow white 

 edging ; the posterior two spots of the discal series geminate. 

 Beyond these are a postdiscal and a subterminal series of short 

 transverse dusky black spots followed by an anticiliary black 

 line ; the ground-colour between the discal and postdiscal series 

 and between the latter and the subterminal series of spots 

 posteriorly paler than on the rest of the wing. Hind wing : a 

 transverse, subbasal. slightly sinuate line of four spots, a short, 

 slender, lunular line on the discocellulars, and a very strongly 

 curved discal series of eight small spots, hlack ; the lunule and each 

 spot encircled with a narrow edging of white ; the posterior two 

 spots of the discal series geminate as on the fore wing ; beyond 

 these as on the fore wing there is a double line of dusky 

 spots, only more lunular, with between them and between the 

 discal and postdiscal series the ground-colour in the same way 

 followed by slightly paler; an anticiliary fine black line. Cilia 

 of both fore and hind wings whitey brown, darker anteriorly 

 on the fore wing. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark 

 brown, shafts of the antennae ringed with white; in fresh specimens 

 the thorax and abdomen with a little light blue pubescence ; 

 beneath : palpi, thorax and abdomen white. . Upperside : 

 brownish black ; the basal halves of the wings slightly suffused 

 with light blue, anticiliary black lines on both fore and hind 

 wings, and on the latter wing an obscure subterminal series of 

 spots as in the rf . Underside : similar, only the ground-colour 

 darker, the markings larger and more clearly defined. Antennae, 

 head, thorax and abdomen as in the J , but with no blue pubes- 

 cence on the thorax and abdomen on the upperside. 



Dry-season brood. c? . Upperside : pale bluish-grey with, in 

 some specimens, a pinkish undertone. Fore wing: as in the wet- 

 season brood, but the black terminal edging much reduced in 

 width in seme specimens to a transverse, somewhat diffuse, very 

 narrow band that borders the anticiliary black line on the inner 

 side, in others to a much broader similar band that coalesces with 

 the anticiliary black line and occupies about the outer sixth of the 



