19C0.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE GENUS ZIZERA. Ill 



15. ZlZERA OTIS. 



Papilio otu, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 73 (1787). 

 Polyommatus sangra, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 772, pi. xli. fig. 8. 

 Li/ccena lysizone, Snellen, Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 24, pi. vii. fig. 2 



(1876). 



Zizera oriens, Butler, Ann. & Mag. IN at. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xi. 



p. 417 (1883). 



N.E. India, Burma. Tenasserirn, Pegu, Malacca, Penaug, China, 

 Formosa, Philippines, Ternate, Amboina. 



I have only given the range of this species as represented by our 

 specimens, as I consider Z. indica to be an easily recognizable and 

 probably distinct species. 



16. Zizera indica. 



Lyccena indica, Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 525, 

 pi. x. figs. 2, 3. 



Zizera indica, var. decreta, Butler, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 150. 



Mhovv, Poona, G-anjam, S. India, Ceylon. (B. M.) 



In this insect, which runs somewhat smaller than Z. otis, the 

 discal series of spots on the under surface of the primaries is more 

 sigmoidal and the spots are much larger ; in the secondaries the 

 first three spots of the discal series form an obtuse instead of: an 

 acute angle. 



The Lyccena lulu of Mathew is certainly not a typical Zizera and 

 should not, I think, be included in the genus : it has naked eyes, 

 but the costal and subcostal veins touch at one point and then 

 separate again : on the under surface of the secondaries, moreover, 

 there is a conspicuous black subanal spot, answering to the metal- 

 sprinkled spot common to JYacaduha, Catochrysops, and various 

 other genera. 



My so-called Zizera unigemmata proves to be a Ohilades allied to 

 0. messapus = scbagadis = acca : the brown upper surface of the 

 male would alone distinguish it, at a glance, from C. messapus 

 apart from other differences. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI. 



Fig. 1. Zizera maha, <J, wet form, p. 106. 



2. „ „ var. ossa, <5 , dry form, p. 106. 



3. „ diluta, rf , wet form, p. 107. 



4. „ „ d\dry form, p. 107. 



5. „ opalina, $ , var. marginata, wet form, p. 107. 



6. „ „ c?, typical, dry form, p. 107. 



7. „ argia, rf , wet form, p. 108. 



8. „ ,, var. japonica, dry form, p. 108. 



9. ,, lysimxm, $ , p. 108. 



10. „ knysna, $ , p. 109. 



11. „ atrigemmata, rf , p. 109. 



12. „ caxluca, 5, P- HO. 



13. „ labradus, $, p. 110. 

 14,15. „ antanossa, J $, p. 110. 



