260 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. • 



I think these three forms make geographical races, but I should not like to assert 

 this without examining very many more specimens than I have done (Chapman). 



Z'izcra mora appears to be an aberration, in which the discal spots on the underside 

 are lengthened into streaks. Specimens of this kind have been taken occasionally in 

 various parts of India. 



Larva. — Feeds on a small vetch [Zoraia diphylla), is of the usual form, but 

 narrow, and is not attended by ants ; it is covered with minute light hairs, colour 

 grass-green, with a lighter marginal line. 



Pupa. — Of the usual form, narrow, green, with a slightly darker line dorsally, and 

 with brown edges to the wing covers. 



Habitat. — Peninsular India, Ceylon, Burma, Nikobars, Central and Western Europe, 

 and parts of Africa. 



A very common form, occurring often in great plenty in its favourite localities. 



ZIZERA OTIS. 



Plate 636, figs. 1, <?, la, 9, lb, $ (Wet-season Brood), Ic, $, Id, 9 (Dry-season Brood). 



Papilio otis, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 73 (1787). 



Hcsperia otis, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 296 (1793). 



Lycaena otis, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 169, pi. ii. figs. 8, 11 (1869). 



Zizera otis, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 186. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 119, 



pi. 26, fig. 175, <J (1890) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 385. Watson, id. 1891, p. 44. 



Betham, id. p. 178. de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, p. 488. Leslie and Evans, id. 1903, p. 674. 



Aitken and Comber, id. 1903, vol. xv. p. 47. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 360. 

 Folyommatus {Cupido) otis, Westwood, Trans. Eat. Soc. 1888, p. 471. 

 Pohjommatus sangra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 772, pi. 41, fig. 8, ^ . 

 Zizera sangra, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 120 (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 528. 



Swinhoe, id. 1893, p. 292. 

 Lycaena indica, Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 525, pi. 10, figs. 2, 3, <J J . 

 Zizera indica, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 79, pi. 35, figs. 7, 7a, $ (1881). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. 



Bengal, 1888, p. 357. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 121 (1890). 

 Lyceena lysizone, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1876, p. 152, pi. 7, figs. 2, 2a. Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. 



.Zool. Lond. 1877, p. 548. 

 Zizera lysizone, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 212 (woodcut, part of neuration of forcwing), pi. 20, 



fig.'g, $ (1884). 

 Zizera dryina, Chapman, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. Ixxxiv. pi. B, tig. 2. 



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



Imago. — Male. Upperside violet-blue. Foreioing with an outer-marginal band of 

 brownish colour, which is rather broad at the apex and narrows hindwards. IIindicin(/ 

 with a broad brownish costal and apical band, which narrows suddenly and leaves the 

 greater part of the outer margin with the terminal line blackish. Cilia white, brownish 



