LYCMNOPSIN^. 



ALLIED INDO-MALAYAN SPECIES. 



Tarucus faaciatus, Rober, Iris, 1884, p. 194, pi. 9, fig. 15. Habitat, Bankei. 



Tarucus clathratus, Holland, Proc. Boston Soc. xxv. p. 71, pi. 5, fig. 8, ^ (1891). Habitat, Celebes. 

 Tarucus waterstradti, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 585, pi. 32, fig. 21. Habitat, Borneo. 

 Tarucus fluvialis, Grose-Smith, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 511 (1895). Habitat, South Celebes. 



Genus ZIZERA. 



Zizera, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 78 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 212 (1884). de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, iii. p. 110 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 355 (1907). 



Imago. — Eyes naked ; antennae less than half the length of the costa of forewiug, 

 club elongate, concave on the underside, palpi sub-porrect, long, thickly fringed in 

 front with stiff hairs, third joint about three-fourths the length of the second, body 

 and legs robust. Forerving, costa arched, apex more or less blunt, outer margin 

 convex, hinder angle obtuse, hinder margin slightly sinuate, about three-fourths the 

 length of the costa, the outer margin consequently short ; first sub-costal nervure 

 strongly bowed upwards a little beyond its origin and touching the costal nervure, 

 the latter at the point of junction is slightly bowed downwards, second sub-costal 

 given off midway between the bases of the first sub-costal and upper discocellular, 

 third sub-costal given off at less than half the distance between the apex of the cell 

 and of the wing, reaching the costa long before the apex of the wing, sub-costal 

 nervure terminating at the apex, middle discocellular nervule slightly outwardly 

 oblique, concave, lower discocellular as long as the middle, concave, slightly inwardly 

 oblique, hardly differs in venation from the genus Lycsenopsis, but the second median 

 nervule is given off at, instead of before, the lower end of the cell, as in that genus, the 

 species of the genus Zizera has, however, a very distinct facies of their own, some of 

 them are the smallest of butterflies. 



Larva. — Green onisciform, the upper portion of the body finely shagreened or 

 covered with short tubercles emitting colourless hairs, no prominent markings. 



Pupa. — Pale green, of the usual Lycsenid form, finely hairy (de Niceville). 



Type. — Zizera maha, Kollar. 



Moore quotes Alsus as the type, but he described the structure of Maha, believing 

 that the European Alsus (which belongs to the genus Cupido) was congeneric ; Alsus 

 was not represented in his collection. 



ZIZERA MAHA. 



Plate 634, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, $ (Wet-season Brood), 3c, <J , 3u, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



Lycaena maha, Kollar, Hugel's Kaschmii-, iv. (2), p. 422 (1848). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, 

 p. 528. 



