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Female, like the male, but the ground colour above is darker and duller, and 

 both wings have broad, suffused, brownish outer marginal bands ; on the underside the 

 markings are like those of the male of the Wet-season form. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 inch. 



Photo of Z. maha. — As compared with Z. ossa, the dorsal processes are slighter. 

 The clasps are much more slender, especially basally, longer, viz., I'OO mm., and 

 attached to each other to a higher level. The ter- 

 minal teeth have two nearly equal large teeth, well 

 separated ; there are always one or more small teeth 

 along the distal margin (Chapman). 



Larva. — When full-grown about 0*4 of an inch 

 in length, green, onisciform, with a dorsal line of a 

 darker green than the ground, the entire upper surface 

 shagreened, the minute whitish tubercles giving out 

 very fine short colourless hairs. No distinctive 

 markings whatever. Head smooth, black, shining as usual. Feeds in Calcutta on 

 Oxalis corniculata, Linnaeus. 



Pupa. — Very pale green, attached to the underside of the leaves of the food plant ; 

 finely hairy, without markings, of the usual LycEenid shape (de Niceville). 



Habitat. — Northern India, North Burma. 



Distribution. — Elwes records it from the Naga and Karen Hills, Watson from 

 the Chin Hills, Mackinnon from Mussuri, de Ehe'-Philipe from Lucknow, Leslie and 

 Evans from Chitral, Manders from the Shan States, Betham from Pachmari ; it is in 

 our collection from Ranchi, Mhow, Kulu and the Khasia Hills ; and in the B. M. 

 from Hassan Abdul, Campbellpur, Rawul Pindi, Chittar Pahar, Akhor, Deval, Buguster, 

 Murree, Nander, Sikkim, Cachar and Calcutta. 



ZIZERA OSSA. 

 Plate 635, figs. 1, (J, la, ?, lb, $ (Wet-season Brood), Ic, <J, Id, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



Zizera ossa, Swinhoc, Proc. Zool. Sec. 1885,. p. 132, pi. 9, figs. 11, <?, 12, $ . de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, iii. p. 115 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 34. 



Zizera maha, Aitken and Comber (nee Kollar), Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1903, vol. xv. p. 43. 

 Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 355 (1907). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, $). 

 Imago. — Male, Upperside of a uniform pale grey-l^lue, with the exception of the 

 basal area where there are some dark blue scales. Forewliuj with the costal line black, 

 apex narrowly black, fining down to a fine marginal line towards the hinder angle. 



