360 



724. Zizera Otis, Fair. (Papilio) Mant. Iiis. ii, 1787, p. 73 : Butler, 

 A. M. N. H. (5) xviii, 1886, p. 186; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, 

 p. 119, pi. 26, fig. 175 rf. 



Polyomniatus sarigra, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 772, pi. 41, fig. 8 J ; 

 de N. (Zizera) Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 120. 



Lycjena indica, Murray, Trans. Ent. Sbc.l874, p. 525, pi. 10, figs. 2, 

 3, d ?; 3foor (Zizera) Ze^. O///. i, 1881, p. 79, pi. 35, figs. 7, 

 7a, rf; <& N. (Zizera) Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 121. 



c? . Upperside : pale violet-blue, with a silvery sheen in certain 

 lights. Fore wing : a broad brown edging along the termen, 

 which covers in some specimens quite the outer fourth of the wing, 

 while in others is much narrower. In all specimens it is broadest 

 at apex and is bounded by an anticiliary darker line, beyond which 



a. Zizera gaika, underside. 

 />. Zizera otis, underside. 



the cilia are brownish at base and white outwardly. Hind wing : 

 anterior or costal third to half and apex brown ; a slender black 

 anticiliary line, beyond which the cilia are as in the fore wing. 

 Underside : brownish grey. Fore wing : a short, transverse, dusky 

 lunule on the discocellulars and a transverse, anteriorly curved, 

 discal series of seven minute black spots, all the spots more or less 

 rounded, the posterior two geminate, the discoceliular lunule and 

 each discal spot conspicuously encircled with white ; the terminal 

 markings beyond the above consist of an inner and an outer 

 transverse subterminal series of dusky spots, each spot edged on 

 the inner side very obscurely with dusky white, the inner line of 

 spots lunular, the outer with the spots more or less rounded. 

 Cilia dusky. Hind wing : a transverse, curved, subbasal series of 

 four spots and an irregular transverse discal series of nine small 

 spots black, each spot encircled narrowly with white. Of the 

 discal spots the posterior four are placed in an outwardly oblique, 

 slightly curved line, the middle two spots geminate : the three 

 spots above these are placed in an oblique transverse Hue further 

 outwards ; lastly, the anterior two spots are posited one over the 

 other and shifted well inwards, just above the apex of the cell ; 

 discoceliular lunule and terminal markings as on the fore wing, 

 but the inner subterminal lunular line in the latter broader and 

 more prominent. Cilia dusky. Antennae black, shafts ringed with 

 white ; head, thorax and abdomen brown, with a little blue scaling : 

 beneath : white. $ . Upperside : brown, with a more or less 

 distinct suffusion of violet-blue at the bases of the wings, on 

 the hind wing continued obscurely along the dorsum ; both fore 



