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23. ZEPHYRUS ABSOLON, Hewitson, PL P, Figs. 33, $ ; 34, 9. 



Dipsas absolon, He witson, 111. Diurn. Lep., Lyccenidce, p. 65, n. 3, pi. xxx, figs. 11,12 

 mafe (1865) ; Zephyrus absolon, de Niceville, Butt.'of India, vol. iii, p. 304, n. 867 (1890). 



Habitat : India (Hewitson) ; West Java. 

 Expanse : $, $,1-6 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings black. Forewing 

 with rather more than the basal half brilliant metallic dark green 

 crossed by the black veins, this green area reaches from the base of the 

 wing to the middle of the costa, occupies the whole of the discoidal 

 cell, reaches the inner margin, and stops about 2 mms. short of the 

 anal angle. Hindwing with the basal two-thirds of the same green 

 colour as the forewing, leaving the costa, outer, and abdominal margins 

 about equally broadly black. Underside, both wings pale brown 

 slightly washed with vinous. Forewing with a pair of curved fine dark 

 brown lines at the end of the cell ; a discal dark brown fascia from the 

 costa to the first median nervule, its inner edge lost in the ground- 

 colour, its outer edge sharply defined by a narrow pure white line from 

 the costa to the second median nervule ; a submarginal series of five 

 quadrate dark brown spots, smallest and palest at the costa, largest and 

 darkest in the first median interspace, where the series ends ; a large 

 quadrate orange patch on the disc, posteriorly bounded by the sub- 

 median nervure, anteriorly reaching the lower end of the cell, its inner 

 edge somewhat irregular, bounded by an imaginary line from the 

 disco-cellular nervules to the inner margin, its outer edge bounded 

 by the submarginal macular fascia, anteriorly this orange patch is 

 broken into by the discal fascia. Hindwing with a pair of fine dark 

 lines defining the disco-cellular nervules-; a narrow discal white line 

 from the costa to the submedian nervure above the anal angle, where 

 it is recurved to the abdominal margin, its general direction very 

 straight, but the line itself a little irregular, inwardly defined by the 

 ground-colour being slightly darker at that point ; a pair of lunulat- 

 ed narrow macular pale violet fascise, the outer the broader and formed 

 of deeper lunules, the ground-colour between these fascise rather dark ; 

 a narrow white anteciliary thread ; a round black spot in the first 

 median interspace well removed from the margin, outwardly bounded 

 Vy a narrow deep orange (almost vermillion-coloured) ring ; the small 

 anal lobe deep black ; anterior to which is a small quadrate deep 



