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11. Zizera labrabus. (Plate XI. fig. 13.) 



Polyommatus labradus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 680 (1819). 



Lyccena novce-hollandice, Felder, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. 

 p. 490 (1862). 



Lyccena communis, Herrich-Schaffer, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1869, p. 72 

 (undescribed). 



Lyccena alsulus, Herrich-Schaffer, t. c. p. 75. 



Zizera phcebe, Murray, Ent. Mo. Mag. x. p. 107 (1873). 



Lyccena mangoensis Butler, Anu. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, 

 vol.xiii. p. 347(1884). 



The South Pacific Islands, Tasmania, Australia, Danima Island, 

 and perhaps Amboina. 



I do not think there is at present sufficient evidence of the 

 identity of Z. caduca with Z. labradus: the type differs considerably 

 from any specimens of Z. labradus which we possess. A single 

 example obtained by Mr. J. J. Walker in Amboina must, I think, 

 be referable to Z. labradus; it differs chiefly in the sharply defined 

 markings on the under surface, those crossing the disk of the 

 wings being almost black. 



12. Zizera caduca. (Plate XL fig. 12.) 

 Lyccena caduca, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 616. 

 Erromanga, New Hebrides. 



This is decidedly smaller than any Z. labradus that I have seen, 

 and the dark external border (of the female at any rate) is extremely 

 broad on the costal half of the wing, where it extends to the end of 

 the discoidal cell : in the secondaries the submarginal pale lunules 

 are sharply defined, and on the under surface all the inner markings 

 are considerably broader than in Z. labradus, being equal in width 

 to those of the submarginal series. I cannot, therefore, at present 

 follow my friend Mr. H. H. Druce in regarding Z. caduca as a 

 variety. 



13. Zizera antanossa. (Plate XI. figs. 14, 15.) 



Lyccena antanossa, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 5, vol. vii. 

 p. lxxii (1877). 



Madagascar, Eastern, Southern, and Western Africa. 



The male of this species more nearly resembles the most highly 

 coloured forms of Z. minima on the upper surface than it does 

 any other species ; on the under surface, however, it is very 

 different, the discal series of spots on the primaries being siuuous 

 and all the spots larger; a well-defined double submarginal series. 



14. Zizera minima. 



Papilio minimus, Fuessly, Vera. p. 31 (1775). 

 Papilio alsus, Scbiffermiiller, Wien. Verz. p. 184(17715). 

 Papilio minutus, Esper, Schmett. i. pi. 108. fig. 8 (1800?). 

 Lyccena alsnides, Gerhardt, Mon. Lye. pi. 13. fig. 3 (1853). 

 Europe. " Asia Minor, Armenia, S. Siberia, Amur " {Staudinger). 



