78 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



white-bordered brown discocellular spot, a transverse discal and a submarginal row 

 of similar spots : liindwing witli a white-bordered black costal spot, four transverse 

 subbasal spots and one near base of abdominal margin ; a wliite-bordered brown 

 discocellular spot and a transverse discal row of similar spots, a marginal row of six 

 prominent black conical spots speckled with metallic-green, the outer one at each 

 end less distinct, each bordered by ochreous-yellow and above by a double white 

 lunular line. Female. Upperside similar, the marginal spots on hindwiag slightly 

 bordered with ochreous ; markings of underside more distinct. 

 Expanse, ^ t^, 2 rf inch. 



" Kandy and Trincomalee. Found in grass. Rare " (TFaJe). 



Genus ZIZERA. 



Wings small : forewing elongated, triangular ; costal vein extending to half 

 length of the wing ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-half length before end of 

 the cell and slightly touching the costal near its end, second at one-third, the third 

 at one-sixth, fourth from half of third and terminating before the ap?x, fifth from 

 end of cell; cell long, broadest in the middle; discocellulars slightly oblique in the 

 middle, radial from the centre ; middle median branch emitted at one-sixth and lower 

 at one-half before end of the cell; submedian slightly recurved: hindwing short, 

 oval; costal vein arched at the base, extending to apex; first subcostal at one-fourth 

 before end of the cell; upper discocellular shortest, oblique, lower erect, radial from 

 their middle : cell short, broad ; two upper median veins from end of the cell ; 

 submedian straight ; internal vein recurved at base ; no tail. Body slender, abdomen 

 long ; palpi very long, porrect, second joint projecting more than half its length 

 beyond front of the head, laxly pilose beneath, third joint long, slender, half length 

 of the second, naked; legs slender; antenna with a stout broad spatular club. 



T^Jpe, Z. Alsus. 



ZIZERA KAESANDRA (Plate 35, Fig. 6, 6a). 

 Polyommatus Karsandra, Moore, Proo. Zool. Soc. LonJ. 1865, p. 505, pi. 31, fig. 7. 



Male. Upperside dull blue; exterior border of both wings brown. Cilia 

 brownish-cinereous. Female uniform purple-brown. Underside brownish-grey ; 

 exterior margin defined by a brown line : forewing with a white-bordered black Spot 

 within the cell, a discocellular streak, a costal spot above it, a transverse discal row 

 of six spots, and a marginal row of white-bordered pale brown lunules : hindwing 

 with a subbasal Huear series of four white-bordered black spots, and a discal curved 



