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of female Z. icana, Moore. The fringes of both sexes are darker and the 

 ■white transverse lines on under surface are wavy. 



Zephyrus tsangkie. 



Thecla tsangkie, Oberthiir, Etud. d'Entom. ix. p. 20, pi. vii. figs. 55 (f', 56 ? (1886). 



" Appartient au groupe de syla, japonica, tnxUa, onentaUs. Eu dessus, le c? a le disque dea 

 ailes eouverf-. d'atomes vert brillaiit, les nervures sout dessinees en brun noiratre, le contour 

 dcs ailes est largement borde de noiratre uni, mat. Le bord exterieur, aux ailes inferieures, 

 est orne pres de Tangle anal de deux taches bleu brillant, du milieu desquelles sort le petit 

 appcudice caudal noir, termine en blanc. 



" La $ differe en dessus du S , parce que les ailes sout brunes, les inferieures plus pales les 

 superieures plus noires. Celles-ci ont deux belles taches bleu brillant, Tune intracellulaire, 

 I'autre plus lougue infraeellulaire, et une tache orangde bilobee au dela de la cellule. Le 

 dessous des deux sexes differe tres peu de cclui de j((poaica." {Oherthiir, I. c.) 



The male has the wings thickly powdered with brilliant green scales, the nerves are blackish brown, 

 and the outer margins of all the wings are broadly bordered with black with two bright blue 

 patches, sometimes united towards anal angle of secondaries. 



The female is brown : primaries are rather darker than the secondaries, and have an elongate 

 patch of blue in the first median interspace, with a smaller one above in the discoidal cell ; at 

 the end of the cell there is an orange patch intersected by the ncrvules. 



On the under surface the sexes are alike, and the pattern is very similar to that of Z. taxUa. 



Appears to be a common species in Western China, occurring up to an 

 elevation of 10,000 feet. 



Zephyrus icana. (Plate XXVII. fig. 4, s .) 



Dii>sas icana, Moore, Proe. Zoo]. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 575, pi. Ixvii. fig. 3, S. 

 ZcplnjriiH icana, de Nieeville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 306 (1890). 



" Male. Upperside dark brown : fore wing with the interior portion purplish green, metallic only 

 in certain lights, and traversed by the dark brown veins ; hind wing slightly sprinkled with 

 motaliic-green scales. 



" Underside pale sap-brown : fore wing with a dark brown broad spot at end of tlie cell ; a trans- 

 verse discal band decreasing in width and terminating one third from the posterior angle, 

 being bordered outwardly by a narrow pale line ; a narrow paler brown submarginal fascia 

 and outer border; hind wing with a dark brown broad median transverse band including a 

 discocellular spot, the band pale-bordered on both sides and terminating above anal angle in a 

 zig/ag line ; a pulcr brown lunular submarginal fascia and outer band ; a black-bordered 

 orange patch at anal angle containing two black spots joined by a blue streak. 



" Expanse l^^^^ inch." {Moore, I. c.) 



Occurs in Western China at Cliia-kou-ho, Ta-chicn-lu, and Omei-shan, in 

 .June and July, at an elevation of 10,000 feet. 



In India, Z. icana '\h not a common species, it has, been obtained at 



