LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Hindwing with a fine outer marginal black line. Underside much as in Zizera malm, 

 the spots smaller, the ground colour darker. 



Female. Upperside paler and duller in colour. Forewing with a diffuse blackish 

 border, very broad. Hindwing with the costal and marginal areas slightly sufi'used 

 with pale blackish. Underside as in the male. Cilia grey, brownish on the upper part 

 of the forewing. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body dark, with blue 

 reflections above ; grey beneath, abdomen beneath white. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 inch. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Ic, $, Id, ?). 



Male and Female. Upperside pale lavender-grey, both wings with very fine 

 terminal black lines, more pronounced in the female, which has a slight thickening at 

 the apex of forewing, and indications of a greyish sub-terminal, shaded thin band. 

 Underside with the markings disposed as in the other form, but minute, and on the 

 hindwing obscure. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? y% inch. 



Photo of Z. ossa. — The whole appendages are rather smaller, dorsal process 

 fuller, clasps shorter 0-83 mm. (against I'OO in Z. niaha). The base of the clasp 

 is wider, giving a flask shape (= body, neck and 

 head), as compared with the more cylindrical 

 form in Maha. They are united together propor- 

 tionately higher up. Assuming two terminal 

 teeth as in Malta, then the upper one is very 

 short and clearly adpressed to the lower, form- 

 ing merely a notch on its upper margin, be- 

 yond this there are no small teeth on the distal 

 margin. The distal margin may be straight or 

 recessed as in photo (Chapman). 

 Habitat. — Southern India. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Aitken and Comber from the Konkan, by Watson 

 from Mysore ; it is in our collection from Poona, Bombay, Bangalore, Anamalh Hills, 

 Mahableshwur, Ahmednagar ; and in the B. M. also from Kolar, Ootacamund and 

 Durbunga. 



ZIZERA GAIKA. 



Plate 635, figs. 2, $ , 2a, ? , 2b, $ (Wet-season Brood), 2c, $ , 2d, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



Lycsena gaiha, Trimen, Trans. Ent. See. 1862, p. 403 ; id. South Afr. Butt. ii. p. 50 (1887). 



Zkera gaiha, Butler, Proc. Zool Soc. 1884, p. 484. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 118, pi. 26, 



fig. 174, 9 (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 528. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. 1891, p. 44. Betham, id. p. 177. Watson, id. 1897, p. 659. Mackinnon and de Niceville, 



