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6. Zizer.v kxysxa. (Plate XI. fig. 10.) 



Lyccena knysna, Trimen, Trans. Enfc Soc. Lond. ser. 3, vol. i. 

 p. 282 (1862); Ehop. At'r. Austr. ii. p. 255 (1866). 



Sierra Leone southwards to the Cape, thence all along the 

 eastern side to Abyssinia ; also at Aden. 



7. ZlZERA KABSATSTDEA. 



Polyommatus karsandra, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 505, pi. xxxi. 



fig. 7. 



Zizera mora, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 506, pi. xlvn. fig. 7. 



Western and Southern India, Ceylon, Burma, Penang, the 

 Philippines, and New Guinea. 



I have no doubt that the specimens recorded from Aden are 

 referable to Z. knysna, from which Z. Jcarsandra certainly differs 

 less than the species of the Z. mdha group. Z. mora is au aber- 

 ration. 



8. ZlZEBA ATBIGEMMATA. (Plate XI. fig. 11.) 



Lyccena atrigemmata, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, 

 vol. ii. p. 290 (1878). 



Madagascar. 



The enormous size of the black spots on the under surface at 

 once defines this species : we possess only two examples, therefore 

 it may prove to be an aberrant form, but it is hardly likely that 

 two aberrations and none of the normal form would be obtained. 



9. ZlZERA GAIKA. 



Lyccena gaika, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. 3rd ser. i. p. 403 (1862); 

 Ehop. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 256, pi. 4. fig. 7 (1866). 



Lyccena pygmcea, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xix. p. 153, pi. 7. 

 fig. 3 (1876). 



From Damara-land and the Cape, north-eastwards probably to 

 Cape Gnadafui, Aden, Muscat, and probably through Persia and 

 Afghanistan to India, the Western Himalayas, continental and 

 peninsular India, Ceylon, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Andaman 

 Islands, Sumatra, and Java. 



10. ZlZERA LOBQTXINI. 



Lyccena lorquinii, Herrich-Schaffer, Schmett. Eur. i. figs. 442-4 

 (1850). 



South of Erance and Andalusia. 



How this species ever came to be regarded as the same as Z. 

 minima is a puzzle to me ; the lilac colouring of the upper surface 

 is so utterly dissimilar from the greenish-scaled brown upper 

 surface of Z. minima that one would never expect to see them put 

 together : even the pattern of the under surface, though somewhat 

 similar, differs considerably. 



