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and hind wings with slender anticiliary lines, darker than the 

 ground-colour. Underside : ground-colour slightly darker than 

 in the c? , markings precisely similar. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen as in the J , but the thorax and abdomen above without 

 any blue scaling. 



Eaup. c? 2 22-27 mm. (0-78-1-08"). 



Hub. Punjab ; Kumaon ; Sikhim ; Bengal ; Orissa ; Central, 

 Western and Southern India ; Ceylon ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenas- 

 serim ; extending to the Malayan Subregion as far as Java, and 

 into China. 



Z. sangra, Moore, and Z. decreta, Butler, are slight varieties 

 that differ so little from the typical form as to make it impossible 

 to discriminate one from the other in any large series of specimens 

 from different localities. Z. indicn, Murray, is more easily separ- 

 able by the great size of the discal black spots on the underside 

 of the fore wing, but specimens intermediate between typical otis 

 and typical indica are by no means uncommon throughout the 

 range of the form. 



Genus AZANUS. 



Azanus, Moore, Lep. Cvyl i, 1881, p. 79 ; de X. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, 

 p. 122. 



Type, A. ubaldus, Cramer, from Ceylon. 



Range. Arabia, India, Ceylon, Assam, Burma. 



c? $ . Fore wing : costa very slightly arched ; apex subacute ; 

 termen convex ; tornus obtuse ; dorsum straight ; cell about half 

 length of wing ; upper discocellular in line with subcostal nervure, 

 middle and lower subequal and nearly vertical ; vein 3 from well 

 before, vein 4 from lower apex of cell, vein 6 from upper apex of 

 cell, vein 7 from a little before ; vein 8 absent, 9 out of 7, 10 free, 

 11 anastomosed with 12. Hind wing : costa arched; apex broadly 

 rounded ; termen convex ; tornus well marked, angular ; dorsum 

 sinuate, strongly convex in the middle, concave just before tornal 

 angle ; cell short, less than half length of wing, all the veins well 

 separate from one another ; vein 3 from before lower apex of cell. 

 Antennae a little longer than half length of fore wing, club large 

 and abrupt; palpi more or less porrect, second joint densely 

 clothed with long hairs anteriorly, third short, blunt at apex ; eyes 

 hairy ; body moderately robust. <$ . In two of the forms on the 

 upperside of the fore w ? ing, specialized hair-like scales on the disc 

 extend upwards into the cell and beyond it into bases of interspaces 

 4 and 5. 



Three forms are recorded from within our limits, of which one 

 seems to me doubtfully distinct from the typical form. In the 

 absence of evidence from the larva and pupa (unknown of any of 

 the forms), and even of a good series of dated specimens, I have 

 followed de Niceville and kept A. uranus, Butler, distinct from 

 A. ubaldus, Cramer. I think, however, that the former will 

 probably prove to be the dry-season brood of the latter. 



