154 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Genus ZESIUS. 



Zesius, Hubiaer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 77 (1816). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 100 (1881). 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 333 (1890). 

 lalmenus, Hewitson (part). 111. Diurn. Lep. p. .53 (186-5). 



Eyes naked. Forewing, cell short, broad, vein 3 emitted a little before the lower 

 end of the cell, 4 from the end, 6 from the upper end, ,5 from 6 close to its base (in the 

 male) ; in the female they have a common origin; 12 terminates opposite the end of 

 the cell, 11 emitted at one-half and 10 at one-third before the end, 9 out of 7, a1>out 

 midway between the apex of the cell and of the wing, 8 (present in the male only) 

 given off from 7, near the apex of the wing, is very short, shorter than the terminal 

 portion of 7 which ends on the outer margin below the apex, wing triangular. Hind- 

 icing, cell broad, discocellular nervules about equal length, the upper recurved, outwardly 

 oblique, the lower slightly concave, nearly upright ; vein 3 emitted a little Ijefore 

 lower end of cell, sub-median nervure straight, wing short, l)road, broadly produced 

 hindwards, costa rounded, with slender tails from veins 2 and 3 in tlie male, and a 

 third tail from the sub-median nervule in the female ; body stout, palpi long, slender, 

 porrect, squamose, second joint projecting half beyond the head, third very slender, 

 (jne-fourth the length of the second, pointed. Antennae with a lengthened club 

 gradually thickening to the tip. 



Type, Z. chrgsomallus, Hvibner. 



ZESmS CHRYSOMALLUS. 

 Plate 732, figs. 4, (J, 4a, ? , 4b, ^ , 4c, larva and pupa. 



Zesius chrysomallus, Hiibner, Zutr. Ex. Schmett. figs. 301, 302, ^ (1823). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. 



p. 100, pi. 40, fig. 4, (J , 4a, $ , 4b, larva and pupa (1881). Hauipson, Journ. A.s. Soc. Bengal, 



1888, p. 3.59. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 334, pi. 28, figs. 208, ^, 209, ? (1890). 



Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 355. Bethanj, id. 1891, p. 181. 



Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. 1896, p. 383, pi. 4, fig. 10, 10a, larva and pupa. Aitken and 



Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 49. 

 Chrysophanus (?) chrysomallus, "Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 499 (1852). 

 Dipsas chri/Mniialhis, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 33 (1857). 

 lalmenus chrysomallus, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 55, pi. 24, figs. 4, 5, ? (1865). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale cupreous-red, veins finely l:)lackish-brown. Fore- 

 iriiig with the costa and outer margin with a narrow brown band of fairly even width 

 throughout. Ilindwing with the costal space and abdominal fold pale brown ; outer 

 margin more narrowly brown, narrowing hindwards, the abdominal space outside the 

 fold suffused narrowly with brown ; a sub-terminal brown spot in each of the three 

 anal interspaces, margined by a slender greyish-blue line, often obsolescent ; tails 



