230 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



beyond its end ; the base of the second sub-costal is rather nearer to the base of the 

 first than to that of the upper discoidal ; the third sub-costal is emitted about midway 

 between the base of the upper discoidal and the apex of the wing ; cell more than half 

 the length of the wing. Hindwing not so narrow proportionately as it is in Pithecops, 

 cell considerably longer. 



Type, N. horsfieldi, Distant. 



NEOPITHECOPS ZALMORA. 



Plate 627, figs 2, $ , 2a,, J , 2b, $ (Wet-season Brood), 2c, $ , 2cl, ? (Dry-season Brood), 2e, $ 

 (Extreme Dry-season Brood). 



Pithecops zaZmora, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lap. p. 161 (1869). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 244. 



Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 134. 

 Neopithecops zalmora, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 46. Hampson, id. 1888, p. 356. 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 53, pi. 26, fig. 162, ? (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 43. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 621. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 292. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 372 (life history). 



Watson, id. 1897, p. 658. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 309 (1907). 

 Lycsena hylax, Doubleday and Hewitson (nee Fabricius), Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 496, pi. 76, fig. 8 



(1852). 

 Pithecops hylax, Moore (nee Fabricius), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 587. 

 Pithecops dharma, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 72, pi. 34, fig. 4, ^ (1881). 

 Pithecops gaura, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 20. 

 Neopithecops horsfieldi. Distant, Ehop. Malayana, p. 210, pi. 22, fig. 15, <J (1884). 



"Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, $, 2a, $, 2b, $). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black, sometimes without any white on the wings ; in 

 some specimens, however, there is a pale spot in the disc of the forewing, and in some 

 this is white ; the hindwings are usually without markings. Female, similar to the 

 males, but in many examples there is a small whitish patch in the disc of both wings. 

 Underside of both sexes white. Forewing with the apex dusky brouTi, the ends of 

 veins 10, 11 and 12 with minute black dots, a slender brown line closing the cell, a 

 post-discal, transverse series of brown lunules, sub-terminal and terminal very slender 

 brown lines including a row of black lunules. Hindwing wdth a brown line on the 

 discocellulars as in the male, a sub-costal black spot beyond the middle, another smaller 

 one near the abdominal margin, also beyond the middle which form the ends of a post- 

 discal, curved and sinuous brown line, the sub-terminal and terminal markings as in 

 the forewing ; in the female there are two and sometimes three sub-basal black spots 

 in a line. Cilia of forewing dusky, of hindwing pure white. 



Expanse of wings, $ % I inch. 



