ZAGiBA. 345 



SECT. I. Palpi with the 3rd joint of moderate length ; fore 

 wing with vein 10 given off from the areole. 



2 135. Zagira irrecta, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1066 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. Hi, 



pi. 174, figs. 1, 1 a (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 2606. 

 Seleuis niviapex, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1009. 

 Selenis vacillans, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 189. 

 Selenis inaequalis, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 189. 



Head and collar chestnut ; thorax white, suffused with purplish 

 grey; abdomen fulvous; wings red-brown; fore wing with a broad 

 white purplish-suffused fascia on the costal area ; a postmedial 

 whitish line highly angled at vein 6 and slightly sinuous towards 

 inner margin ; two black subapical specks on white or ochreous 



spots ; a white spot at apex and 

 another on outer margin below 

 the apex ; a marginal series of 

 black specks. Hind wing with 

 indistinct irregularly sinuous 

 medial and postmedial lines. 

 Underside with the base of wdngs 

 Fig. 184. Zagira irrecta, $. \. reddish. 



The African and Indian forms 



are darkest ; the Bornean incequalis and vacillans are paler chestnut, 

 the latter with the postmedial line of fore wing almost straight 

 towards inner margin. 



Larva purplish black, with short hairs ; a dorsal hump on llth 

 somite. Pupa in a reddish cocoon. 



Nab. W. Africa ; Natal ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; 

 Andamans ; Borneo. Exp. 24 millim. 



2136. Zagira divisa, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i, p. 107 ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 174, fig. 7 ; C. $ S. no. 2803. 

 Selenis semilux, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1069. 

 Selenis lauta, Butl. III. Het. ii, p. 44, pi. 34, fig. 1. 



Differs from irrecta in the colour being red-brown or black- 

 brown ; the head black or chestnut ; the thorax and costal area of 

 the fore wing pure white, or suffused with reddish ochreous ; the 

 subapical markings absent, the fascia being continued to the 

 margin. 



J/b. Japan; China; throughout India and Ceylon. 7rp. 20 

 millim. 



2137. Zagira lunifera, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 209, pi. 175, fig. 3; 



C. # S. no. 2607. 



Differs from irrecta in the 3rd joint of palpus being longer; the 

 thorax and costal fascia suffused with reddish ochreous ; fore wing 

 with the postmedial line bent inwards and broken up into a series 

 of dark specks towards inner margin ; a white lunule on the sub- 

 marginal line below the subapical specks, the line being ochreous 



