96 LEPWOVTERA ISDICA, 



middle median emitted from immediately before lower end of the cell. Ilinchving 

 very short, broad, irregularly-oval or somewhat quadrate ; anterior margin abruptly 

 lobate at the base ; exterior margin irregularly scalloped and somewhat angularly 

 produced at end of upper median veinlet ; anal angle obtusely pointed ; cell very 

 short and broad; precostal vein rather long, curved outward, emitted opposite 

 juncture of the subcostal ; first subcostal branch starting from above or at a little 

 beyond end of the cell ; discocellulars somewhat oblique, each slightly concave, of 

 equal length ; two upper median veinlets emitted from lower end of the cell ; lower 

 median at one-third before end of the cell. Body small ; thorax moderately stout ; 

 frontal tuft deuse ; eyes naked ; palpi very small, not visible from above, flattened 

 laterally, almost horizontal, rather thickly clothed beneath with short hairs, apical 

 joint not visible ; anteonge slender, club rather short, tip obtuse ; forelegs of male 

 very small, densely clothed with hairs ; forelegs of female long, slender, well clothed 

 ■with scales, tarsal joints concealed, terminal joint with two small delicate, very 

 slender claws, short paronychia, and pulvillus. 

 Type. — Z. Flegyas [AUica]. 



ZEMEROS FLEGYAS. 



Wet-season brood (Plate 405, figs. 1, la, b, c, (j* ? ). 



Papilio Flegyas, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 280, fig. E, F, ^ (1780). 



Zemeros Flegyas, Doubleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. 2, p. 1 (1847). Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. ii. 

 p. 419, pi. 69, fig. 5, S (1851). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 242 (1857). Builer, 

 Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 136 (1869). de Nict'ville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 308, pi. 24, 

 fig. 115, S (1886). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 238, pi. 87 (1888). Leech, Butt, of China, i. 

 p. 296 (1893). 



Zemeros Phlegyas, Dohertj', Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 134. 



Papilio Allica, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 52 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 244, ? (1793). Donovan, 

 Ins. of India, pi. 37, fig. 2, ? (1800). 



Hamanumida Allica, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 18 (1816). 



Erycina Allica, Godart, Encyc. Aleth. ix. p. 566 (1823). 



Zemeros indicus, Fiuhstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 333. 



Imago.— Male. Upperside i-ich dark biownish ochreous-red. Cilia black 

 alternated with white. Both wings crossed by four series of small white spots 

 which are longitudinally bordered between the veins by black streaks, as follows :— 

 Forev-ing with a short narrow bar across middle of the cell and a longer bar below 

 it in the submedian interspace; an inner-discal row of somewhat triangular spots, of 

 which series the one in the upper median interspace is out of line and much nearer 

 the outer margin ; an outer-discal row of smaller spots, of which the two upper 

 only are distinct, the lower being lunular and more or less slightly defined or 



