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series of eight spots ; a pale-bordered brown discocellular streak, a marginal row of 

 white-bordered brown spots, and a submarginal row of similar bordered lunules. 

 Expanse, <? if , s 1 inch. 



" Colombo ; in gardens and grassy land. Almost always abundant. Hovers 

 round weeds and plants, and constantly settling on the ground " {Hutchison). 



ZIZERA INDIGA (Plate 35, Fig. 7, 7a). 

 Li/cwna indica, Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 525, pi. 10, f. 2, 3. 



Male. Upperside paler blue than Z. Karsandra ; the marginal brown band 

 somewhat narrower. Female pux-ple-brown ; the basal area of both wings suffused 

 ■with blue; the hiudwing with a submarginal indistinct series of blue lunules. 

 Underside similar marked to Z. Karsandra, but the forewing has no spot within the 

 cell, and the spot above the discocellular streak is also absent. 



Expanse, <? A, 2 -fi inch. 



ZIZEEA PYGM.ffi;A (Plate 35, Fig. 5, 5a). 

 Lycmia pygmcea, Suellin, Tijdschrift voor Ent. xix. p. 153, pi. 7, f. 3 (1876). 



Male. Upperside lavender-blue : forewing with an indistinct broad brownish 

 outer marginal band : hindwing with a brown marginal line. Cilia white, with 

 brown inner line. Female pale violet-brown. Underside pale grey : forewing with 

 a series of nine pale-bordered black spots curving from base of subcostal vein 

 towards the apex and then across the disc, the fifth or upper discal spot lunate ; 

 two marginal rows of pale-bordered brown lunules : hindwdng with a series of nine 

 pale-bordered black spots, the first spot disposed at the base of costal vein, two on 

 the costal border, the others curving across the disc ; two small spots also on the 

 abdominal margin, one also below and another within the cell; a marginal row of 

 brown lunular spots enclosed by an inner lunular line. Both wings with a brown 

 discocellular lunule. Palpi black above ; legs with black streaks. 



Expanse, $ t2, ^ -h inch. 



Found in the same localities, and has the same habits as Z. Karsandra. 



Genus AZANUS, 



Forewing elongated, triangular, costa almost straight, apex acute ; exterior 

 margin oblique and slightly concave; posterior margin short, angle acute; costal 

 vein curved in its middle and slightly bent before reaching the costa; first subcostal 



