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and the spots each encircled with white ; the posterior two spots 

 of the discal series geminate, the three spots above these e n echelon 

 placed obliquely ; beyond these are an inner and an outer transverse 

 subternrinal series of elongate dusky spots or short lines and an 

 anticiliary black line. Hind wing : a transverse, curved, subbasal 

 line of four well-separated spots, an abbreviated line on the disco- 

 cellulars and a transverse highly curved discal series of eight spots, 

 black, followed by an inner series of dusky luuules, an outer sub- 

 terminal series of round dusky spots and an anticiliary slender 

 black line. Cilia of both fore and hind wings grey, paler outwardly. 

 Antennae black, shafts ringed with white ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen brownish ; beneath : palpi, thorax and abdomen sullied 

 white. $ . Upperside : brown with, in a few specimens, the bases 

 of both wings with traces of a violet irroration. In the majority of 

 specimens, however, only the dorsal or posterior half of the hind 

 wing is flushed with violet. Pore wing : the discocellulars with a 

 transverse dusky short line. Tore and hind wings otherwise 

 immaculate, with anticiliary dusky lines. Underside : ground- 

 colour darker, in some pale brown ; markings on both fore and 

 hind wings as in the c? Antennas, head, thorax and abdomen 

 similar to those of the 6 , but on the underside the palpi, thorax 

 and abdomen, in some specimens, purer white. 

 Exp. c? $ 18-24 mm. (0-69-0-96"). 



Bab. Southern Europe ; Africa ; Central and Western Asia. 

 Within our limits, peninsular India south of the outer Himalayan 

 Kauge; Ceylon ; Assam ; Burma; Tenasserim; Kicobars ; extending 

 through the Malayan Subregioii to Australia. It has been recorded 

 also from Madagascar and the Mauritius. 



There seems to be some seasonal variation in this form, but it 

 is not so obvious as in Z. maha. Specimens taken in the wet 

 season have in the <$ broader terminal brown margins to the 

 wings, and in the $ a greater extent of violet suffusion on the 

 upperside. On the underside the ground-colour is of a deeper 

 shade in both sexes than in dry-season specimens. 



Larva. " The larva, which feeds on a small vetch (Zornia 

 diphylla), is of the usual form but narrow, and is not attended by 

 ants ; it is covered with minute light coloured hairs. Colour grass- 

 green, with a lighter marginal line." (Davidson, Bell $ Aitken.) 



Pupa. " Of the usual form, narrow, gi-een with a slightly darker 

 line dorsally and with brown edges to the wing-covers." (Davidson, 

 Sell $ Aitken.) 



Var. Icarsandra, Moore, is a pale form of lysimon, and was 

 described originally from a $ specimen. Zizera mora, Swinhoe, 

 is an aberration in which the discal spots are lengthened into 

 streaks. Mr. de Niceville remarks, such aberrations are of frequent 

 occurrence among the Lyccenidcv. 



