254 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



Zhera malia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 248. Swiuhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 426. 

 Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 133. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 148. 

 de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 112, pi. 26, fig. 172, $ (1890). Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1900, p. 106. Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 177. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 

 p. 623. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 295. Leslie and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1893, p. 673. Watson, id. 1897, p. 659. Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 380. 

 de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, p. 487. Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 355, pi. 19, 

 figs. 136, $ 137, ? (Diy-season Brood) (1907). 



Poli/ommatus chandala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 504, pi. 31, fig. 5, ^ , and 1874, p. 272; 



Zizera chandala, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 426. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 114 

 (1890). 



Lycsena diluta, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 280, pi. 35, figs. 12, 13, $ (1865). 



Zizera diluta, Piothney, Ent. Mo. Mag. xix. p. 35 (1882). de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, 

 p. 46. Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 367; id. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 149. Wood- 

 Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 365. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 

 p. 114 (1890). 



Lycsena squalida, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 4. 



Zizera squalida, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 148. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 115 

 (1890). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 3, $, 3a, ?, 3b, $). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark greyish-blue. Forewinci with broad blackish- 

 Ijrown outer marginal border, darkest on the margin and paling inwardly. Hindwing 

 with the costa broadly suffused with pale blackish-brown, the outer marginal border 

 similar to that on the forewing. Underside pale brownish-grey, markings blackish- 

 l)rown, edged with whitish. Forewing with a lunular mark at the end of the cell, a 

 spot in the middle of the cell, a discal curved row of spots, the first from the lower 

 end, sometimes more or less linear, the second oblique and a little inwards. Hindwing 

 with a sub-basal series of four spots almost in a line, the lowest one being the end spot 

 of a curved discal row of spots, that and the third spot of the discal row being placed a 

 little inwards, both wings with a sub-terminal double row of lunular marks and a 

 terminal black line. Cilia whitish. Autenufe black, ringed with white, head and 

 body blackish above, white below. 



Female. Upperside of a uniform blackish-brown without any markings. Under- 

 side as in the male, markings more prominent. 



Expanse of wings, $ % 1 jV inches. 



Dry -season Brood (Figs. 3c, $, 3d, ?). 



Male. Upperside silvery light blue, with some bright blue basal irrorations, costal 

 and marginal lines on both wings black ; no other markings. Underside with the 

 ground colour darker than in the Wet-season form, the markings similarly disposed, 

 but all -s'ery obscure, except the cell spots and discal row of spots on the forewing. 



