174 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA, 



receive tlie abdomen ; costal vein with a short curved inner spur ; first subcostal 

 veinlet arched, starting at two-thirds before end of the cell, the radial (the base of 

 which is homologous to an upper discocellular) starting from below the second sub- 

 costal at more than one-third before end of the cell ; median veinlets straight, the 

 upper median giving off a short incomplete tubular discocellular veinlet, which latter 

 does not reach the radial but completely terminates at a short distance from it, and 

 thus leaves the cell partially open ; snbmedian vein long, much recurved, and on the 

 upperslde of the wing has a lengthened fold along its inner edge, and a narroto lateral 

 glandular pouch at the middle of its length, the pouch being open on the upperside 

 of the wing and enclosing an erectile tuft of long bristly hairs, the edge of the fold 

 above beinf frino-ed with fine woolly hairs ; v:ithin the cell there are two small oval 

 superposed glandular patches, and above the cell, betiveen the subcostal and costal veins, 

 is a third similar glandular patch, each patch being overlaid by a tuft of erectile hairs 

 arising from their inner end. Body woolly ; head woolly in front ; eyes large, 

 prominent, naked; palpi elongate, narrow, compressed, erect, extending above level 

 of the vertex, densely clothed with appressed scales beneath, laxly hairy above, 

 terminal joint slender, pointed ; antenute long, slender, distinctly articulated, the 

 club very slender and elongated. Forelegs of male slender, hairy, of female rather 

 longer, more robust, tarsus spiny beneath. 

 Type. — Z. Luxerii. 



ZEUXIDIA MASONI (Plate 144, figs. 1, la, b, c? ? )• 



Zeuxidia Masrnii, Moore, Proo. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 826, ? . Marshall, Journ. Asiatic Soc. 

 Bengal, 1882, p. 39. Marshall and de Nic^ville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 286 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violescent-brown, palest at the margins. CiHa 

 cinerescent-white. Forewing crossed by a subapical excurved broad decreasing 

 violet-blue band, extending from the costa to below the lower median veinlet. Hiiul- 

 wing with a broad violet-blue posterior patch extending broadly from the submediau 

 vein and decreasing upward along the outer border to near the apex ; within the cell 

 is a small oval glandidar patch overlaid by a tuft of erectile blackish hairs arising 

 from its inner end ; above the cell is a smaller similar glandular patch, which is over- 

 laid by a tuft of ochreous hairs, and along the inner edge of the base of the submedian 

 vein is a lengthened glandular pouch, which is fringed by long dark-brown hairs and 

 a terminal tuft of erectile ochreous hairs. Underside purpurescent-brown ; crossed 

 by a narrow brown discal fascia with sharply-defined outer edge, four short basal 

 fasciaj, and a very indistinctly defined submarginal sinuous line, the basal interspaces, 

 the apical area beyond the cell, and the posterior area of the hind wing, being washed 

 with glossy pale purplish-grey. On the hindwing are two small brownish-ochreous 

 ocelli, the upper one situated between the subcostals, the lower between the middle and 



