272 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Ilindwing with a short LLackish bar near the base of the costal interspace inwardly 

 defined by a tine silvery white line ; a narrow discocellular line outwardly surrounded 

 with white, the usual W-shaped discal prominent line, silvery white inwardly, slightly 

 defined by a narrow blackish line ; the outer margin sprinkled with white scales ; a 

 prominent marginal large oval deep black spot circled with orange in the first median 

 interspace, an anal deep black spot crowned with orange, which latter colour extends 

 on one side to the first median nervule, on the other side in a narrow line for some 

 short distance up the abdominal margin, where it is inwardly bounded by a faint black 

 line and then by a line of turquoise-blue ; a fine anteciliary white line, obsolete towards 

 the apex. Thorax above anteriorly clothed with ferruginous hairs in some lights, 

 posteriorly with green hairs ; abdomen Ijlack above, pale fuscous below. 



This species belongs to the group which contains Thecla (yZephyrui) tanglcie, 

 Oberthiir, and T. desgodinsi, Oberthiir, from Thibet, but appears to be quite distinct 

 from either ; it differs from the former in being larger ; it has no brilliant blue spots 

 on the margin of the hiudwing on the upperside on either side of the tail, and the 

 colour of the underside is black, not brown. From the latter (of which the female 

 only is known) it also diifers in the ground colour of the underside, and in the discal 

 white lines being straight, instead of outwardly convex as in T. desgodinsi, and in the 

 presence of the bar in the costal interspace on the hindwing. T. diamantina, Oberthiir, 

 which is also of this group, appears to have the green colour on the upperside of the 

 male less powdery, and extended much nearer to the outer margin. It was described 

 from the Island of Askold. From the description alone, Z. zoa appears to come very 

 near to "Dipsas " japonica, Murray, but that species seems to have no discocellular 

 markings on the underside, and also" has a third black spot with whitish scales in the 

 middle between the two large ones on either side of it on the underside of the hindwing 

 near the anal angle not found in my species. To judge of it also from the late 

 Mr. H. Fryer's figures in his " Ehopalocera Japonica," the male has the green 

 coloration of the upperside much more extensive than in Z. zoa. A single specimen 

 has been obtained by Mr. A. V. Knyvett on Tiger's Hill above Darjiling, at 8,000 feet 

 elevation, on 26th June, 1888. (de Niceville.) 



Expanse of wings, $ 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. 



We have not been able to examine this species, the unique type being in the- 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta, we therefore give copies of de Niceville's figure. 



RURALIS ZIHA. 

 Plate 704, figs. 4, <? , 4a, ? , 4b, ^ . 

 Dipsas ziha, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 66, pi. 26, figs. 4, 5, ? (1865). 



