RHOPA LOCK It A MALA YA NA . 



SYNOPSIS OF GENERA. 



1, Lower disco -cellular nervuie of posterior wings united with 

 the common base of the two upper median nervules, , Zeu kilos, 



2. Lower disco- cellular nervuie of posterior wings united with 

 tbe upper median ih i vhK at some little distance from 

 its base, 



<t. Upper and lower disco-cellular nervules of posterior wings 



about equal in length. ...... Abisara, 



aa. Lower disco-cellular nervuie of posterior wings much 



longer than the upper. Stibooes. 



Genus ZEMEROS. 



Zemerw; Boiaduval, Sp. Gen. i. t. 21, f. 5 (1880) ; Westw. Gen. Dium. Lep. p. 418 ^ 1851 j. 



Anterior wings somewhat triangular; costal margin nearly straight, but slightly convex, outer 

 margin more or less convex, inner margin sligbtly ampliated and convex. Costal nervure robust, and 

 terminating near centre of costal margin ; first and second subcostal nervules emitted before and near 

 the termination of the cell ; third about midway between the end of cell and bifurcation of the fourth 

 and Fifth nervules ; disco -cellular nervules irregularly concave r the lower uniting with the upper median 

 nervuie near its base. Posterior wings irregular in shape, the outer margin being either convexly rounded 

 or waved and strongly augulated near the upper median nervuie, the costal margin nearly straight or very 

 slightly convex, Pixcostal nervuie strongly curved outwardly; costal nervure very sbort; subcostal 

 nervules bifurcating at upper extremity of cell : lower disco-cellular nervuie u little longer than the upper 

 and united with the common base of the two upper median nervules. Head small, with a frontal tuft 

 of hairs ; palpi minute, not visible above ; antenna? somewhat short (narrowly amiulated with white in all 

 the species examined t, and terminating in u distinct club. 



Tins is a small genus, and inhabits North -Eastern India anil the Indo- Malayan region; 

 hut has neither been recorded from Ceylon, nor the Andaman or Nicohar Islands. 



If we admit all the described forms as reaching the artificial canonicity of "species/ 1 then 

 it may be stated that about four species are known, though their amount of diversity is very 

 unequal, 



1. Zemeros albipunctata, (Tab. XVI II. , tig. 12 ? .) 



Zfmerm albijmnct^ta, Butler, Cist, Ent. vol. i. p. 23G (1874); Trans. Linn. Sec, ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 515, 

 n, 2, t. kix, f. 10(1877). 



Malu and Female, Wings above reddish oehraceous or reddish -brown. Anterior wings with the 

 following black spots: — two crossing cell, one beneath cell near base, a curved Beries of five commencing 

 immediately bey and cell and directed inwardly, M lowed by a similarly curved series of seven spots, the 

 uppermost minute, and the lower two situate between the third median nervuie and the submediau 

 nervure ; beyond these are a series of seven white spots, of which the four uppermost are largest and most 

 distinct, and a submarginal series of seven linear black spots outwardly containing a small white spot; 

 fringe alternately black and greyish. Posterior wings with the disk more or less covered with similarly 

 sized and shaped black spots as on anterior wings, and also with a snbmargmal aeries of spots and the 

 fringe as on those wings. Wings beneath a little paler than above, the black spots somewhat more 



* Taken from Mr. Butler's description, as I Uave been unable to examine a specimen belonging to the genne. 



Fin. 40,— Post, win* of Zemeros 

 Inwrr disco- cellular nervine. 



Fin. .10. — IW. wjnj? of Abltara 

 tmmantbi, showing position of 

 Lowiir dj»eo-wUuUr nervuie. 



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