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Zephyrus ziha, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 308 (1890). Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. 

 Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 384. 



Imago.— Male and Female. Upperside mauve- coloured, the veins black. Forewinfi 

 with a white spot at the end of the cell, a rather long spot outside in the next lower 

 interspace, the costal, apical and outer marginal space above and beyond these spots 

 black, continued on the outer margin somewhat broadly and increasingly hindwards to 

 the hinder angle. Hindwing with a little dark suffusion on the costal portion, a black 

 outer marginal line with a white line inside it and a series of black lunular marks 

 capped with white ; tail black, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings white, with a 

 black base except at the hinder angle and hinder margin of the forewing, where it is 

 white throughout. Underside greyish-white, not shining, markings dark grey, nearly 

 black on the forewings. Forewing with a thin bar at the end of the cell, edged with 

 white on both sides, a well curved thin band of conjoined lunules outwardly edged with 

 white, from the costa to vein 2 where it nearly touches the sub-marginal band, which 

 is broader, composed also of conjoined lunules from the costa to the sub-median vein, 

 increasing in size and depth of colour hindwards and terminating in two somewhat 

 suffused large black spots. Hindwing with a very thin band edged with white closing 

 the cell, a discal, thin band outwardly edged with white, slightly outwardly curved 

 from the costa to vein 2, then bent round in two acute angles and a curved line to the 

 middle of the abdominal margin, a sub-marginal acutely angled thin band outwardly 

 white edged, continued to the end and curved inwards, rather near the lower end of 

 the discal band, also in a line to the abdominal margin ; a small anal black spot, 

 capped with orange ; a small black spot in the first inter.space, ringed with orange ; 

 both wings with dark grey terminal line with a white thread inside it, and a sub- 

 terminal pale grey band, almost linear on the forewing, lunular on the hindwing. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white ; club with an orange tip ; head and body above and 

 below concolorous with the wings. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ ly^Q- to 1^^ inches. 



Habitat. — North-West Himalayas. 



Distribution. — The type is without locality ; we have it from Masuri, from 

 whence Mackinnon and de Niceville also record it, 7,000 feet elevation ; de Niceville 

 says that Grahame-Young took one in Kulu and one in Simla ; it is a rare species. 



RURALIS PAVO. 



Plate 705, figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, $. 



Zephyrus pavo, de Niceville, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 460, pi. 40, fig. 11, $ (? ex errore) ; id. Butt, 

 of India, iii. p. 309 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 635. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings black. Forewing with the costa somewhat 

 widely, the apical third of the wing, and the outer margin to the anal angle black, the 



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