262 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



drynia is a synonja-n of Z. otis ; the appearance and large size of tlie specimens 

 prevented any suspicion of its being otl'i (Ciiapman). 



INDO-MALAYAN, CHINESE AND JAPANESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Z'izcra argia, Lyciena argia, Menetries, Cat. Mus. Petr. ii. p. 125, pi. 10, fig. 7 (1857). Synomjms, 



Lycsena japonica, Murray, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1874, p. 167. Lycsena alope, Fenton, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1881, p. 851. Habitat, Japan. 

 Zizem oriens, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1883, p. 417. Habitat, Mindanao. 

 Zizera albocaeruleus, Plebeius alboccEruleus, Rober, Iris, 1884, p. 59, pi. 4, fig. 7. Habitat, 



Hong Kong. 

 Zizera thibetensis, Lycsena thibetensis, Poujade, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1885, p. cli. Habitat, 



Western China. 

 Zizera marginata, Lycsena ruarginata, Poujade, I.e. 



Zizera opalina, Lycsena opalina, Poujade, I.e. p. cxlii. Habitat, Japan. 

 Zizera ida, Lycsena ida, Grum, Grshimailo, Hor. Ent. Ross. xxv. p. 451 (1891). Habitat, Chinese 



Thibet, Central Asia. 

 Zizera similis, Polyommatus similis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 702. Habitat, Hainan. 



Sub-Family EVERIN.E. 



Eyes naked. Foreiciiif/ with veins 11 and 12 coinciding for some distance ; 5 and 

 6 not approximate at base (except in the aberrant Genus Talicada), 7 ends on costa a 

 little before the apex, 8 absent, 7 from 9 beyond end of cell. Genitalia very compact, 

 cingula and tegumen fitting closely over harpagones. Harpago broad, oblong, cleft 

 from the front apical third below the middle ; upper front apex produced downwards 

 into a long curved point ; lower apex with an upward inclination and a somewhat 

 hollowed spatulate extremity. Cingula or girdle well developed, highly curved, 

 expanding as it nears the tegumen, which is always small and developing more or less 

 into a point at the fore apex of the dorsum. Fakes or hooks very short, broadish at 

 base, often little more than a short point. Furca (i.e. the support or guide to the 

 tedoeagus) of slight dimensions. iEdceagus short, of moderate width (Bethune-Baker). 



Genus EVERES. 



Everes, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 69 (1816). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 85 (1881). Distant, 

 Rhop. Malayana, p. 221 (1884). Scudder, Butt. Exot. United States and Canada, p. 905 

 (1889). da Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 136 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt, 

 ii. p. 377 (1907). 



Tongeia, Tutt, Brit. Butt. x. p. 41 (1908). Type, fisclieri, Eversmann. 



Binghamia, Tutt, I.e. p. 42. Type, parrhasius, Fabricius. 



