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half of discoidal cell, giving off a wedge-shaped process covering the discocellular 

 nervules, the apex widely, the outer margin widely but decreasingly, and all the veins 

 fuscous, the rest of the wing purple, the portion of that colour occupying the 

 lower half of the cell with its anterior margin waved. Ilindwiag with a patch of 

 purple in the middle divided by the fuscous veins. Underside, both wings dull, 

 reddish-purplish. ForevAng with a discal macular narrow line formed of linear spots 

 rather darker than the ground, from the upper discoidal nervule to the sub-median 

 nervure, two extremely indistinct marginal fascise. Hindwing with a discal fascia as in 

 the forewing, but highly irregular, the marginal fascise as in the forewing, a small round 

 black spot a little removed from the margin in the sub-median interspace. Cilia reddish- 

 ochreous throughout. 



I can compare this plainly coloured, simply marked butterfly with no other ; as far 

 as I know it is quite unique, though it is possible that hereafter it may be proved to 

 be the opposite sex of Z. jasoda, mihi, from which it differs in the much paler colour of 

 the ground on the underside, in the discal band on the hindwing not being slightly 

 outwardly marked with grey, and the grey irroration at the anal angle absent. The 

 type and only known specimen was taken in the Meplay Valley, Upper Tenasserim, 

 Burma, on the 8th of January, 1882, by Major C. T. Bingham. The figure shows both 

 sides of the type-specimen in my collection, (de Niceville.) 



Expanse of wings, $ ? ly% to IfV inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Borneo. 



We have not seen the female ; the type, a unique specimen, is in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta ; the figure we give is a copy of de Mceville's figure ; our description 

 and figures of the male are from an example taken in the Donat Eange, kindly lent us 

 from the Druce Collection ; there can be no doubt that zonella is the true female of 

 jasoda ; it differs from de Niceville's type of jasoda chiefly in the ground colour of the 

 underside, but this is evidently an unstable character, the shade of the coloration on 

 the underside of the males varying much in the only three examples yet described, viz. 

 de Niceville's type " deep glossy purplish-brown ; " Bingham's " silky golden brown ; " 

 and ours " rufous-grey ; " the uppersides of all three being identical. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Znrona pharygoides, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 208, pi. E, fig. 3. Habitat, 



Malay Peninsula. 

 Zarona hradamante, Boherty M8., de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 36, footnote (1890). Habitat, 



Lower Siaui. 



Note. — de Niceville put FseudodijJsas cephenes, Hewitson, at the end of the 

 Poritias; the unique type, a female, is in the B. M., it has on it an attached minute 



