108 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



DrsTEiBUTiON. — The only authentic record of the habitat of this rare butterfly is 

 that by Mr. W. Doherty, who captured it " at Bernardmyo, 5400 feet elevation, north 

 of Mandalay, where it was very scarce" (Blwes, P. Z. S. 1891, 268). 



Genus ZIP^TIS. 



Zipcetis, Hewitson, Exotic Butt. iii. p. 100 (1863). Herr Schaefifer, Prod. Lep. i. p. 63 (1864). 



Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1868, p. 194 ; Catal. Satyr, Brit. Mus. p. 98 (1868). Kirby, Syn. Catal. 



D. Lep. p. 103 (1871). 

 Zipoeteg, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 248 (1883). 

 Ziboetes, Wood- Mason, Joum. Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, 1881, p. 86. 



Imago. Male. Forewing somewhat elongated, subtriangular ; costa arched, 

 apex rounded, exterior margin oblique and slightly convex ; costal vein swollen 

 at the base ; cell broad, long, extending beyond half-length of the wing ; first and 

 second subcostal veinlets emitted before end of tbe cell ; discocellulars recurved, 

 upper short and concave ; upper radial emitted from close to subcostal, lower radial 

 from above the middle ; median veinlets equi-distant apart. Hindwing rather short, 

 broad ; exterior margin convex, obtusely scalloped ; cell long, ratlier broad ; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at some distance before end of the cell ; discocellular long, 

 outwardly recurved, radial from above its middle ; the middle median veinlet emitted 

 at some distance before end of the cell. Body slender ; paljDi long, rather stout, 

 compressed, thickly clothed in front with long hairs, third joint stout; antennae 

 with a slender gradually-thickened club ; eyes smooth. 



Type.— Z. Saitis. 



ZIP-SITIS SAITIS (Plate 119, figs. 1, la, b, <J ?). 



Zipcetis Saitis, Hewitson, Exotic Butt. iii. p. 100, Zip. pi. fig. 6, ^ (1863). Marshall and de Nice- 

 ville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 249, pi. 17, fig. 78, ? (1883). 



Imago. Male. Upperside dark vinescent-brown, darkest basaUy ; both wings 

 with an ill-defined pale-bordered dusky-black submarginal line ; cilia alternated with 

 brownish-cinereous. Forewing crossed by an outwardly-oblique broad subapical 

 purpurescent-white band. Hindiving crossed by a similar white posterior sub- 

 marginal band, which is sinuous on its outer edge and is attenuated upwards towards 

 the apex. Underside uniformly paler, the dusky marginal Lines distinctly pale 

 bordered. Forewing with the oblique white band as above. Hindwing with the 

 posterior submarginal white band as above, before which is a discal series of five 

 prominent black ocelli, two upper and three lower, with white pupils, the upper one 

 and the two lowest being minute, the second upper one very large and bipiipilled, 

 the third about half its size, each ringed with ochreous, the two upper also being 



