380 LTaENID.E. 
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, Obcrtliiir, Etiul. d'Entom. ix. jx 20, pi. vii. figs. 55 (J, 56 ? (1886). 
" Appartient au groupe dc sijJa, jnponica, ta.rUa, orieiitalis. En dessus, le c? a le disque deg 
ailcs convert d'atomes vert brillant, les nervures sont dessinees en brun noiratre, le contour 
dcs ailes est largement horde de noiratre uni, mat. Le bord exterieur, aus ailes inferieures, 
est ome pres de Tangle anal de deux taches bleu brillant, du milieu desquelles sort le petit 
appeudice caudal noir, termine en blanc. 
" La 2 differe en dessus du d , parce que les ailes sont brunes, les inferieures plus pales les 
superieures jilus noires. Celles-ci ont deux belles taches bleu brillant, I'une intracellulaire, 
I'autre plus longue infracellulaire, et une tache orangee bilobee au dela de la cellule. Le 
dessous des deux sexes diffure tres peu de celui Ae japonica." {Oherthur, I. c.) 
The male has the wings thicldy 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 nervules. 
On the under surface the sexes are alike, and the pattern is very similar to that of Z. taxila. 
Appears to be a common species in Western China, occurring up to an 
elevation of 10,000 feet. 
Zephyrus icana. (Plate XXVII. fig. 4, j .) 
Dipsas icana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1874, jj. 575, pi. Ixvii. fig. 3, 6 . 
Zephyrus icana, de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 306 (1890). 
" Male. TJpperside 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 
metallic-green scales. 
" Underside pale sap-brown : fore wing with a dark brown broad spot at end of the 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 
zigzag line ; a paler 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^-'g inch." {Moore, I. c.) 
Occurs in Western China at Chia-kou-ho, Ta-chien-lu, and Omei-shan, in 
June and July, at an elevation of 10,000 feet. 
In India, Z. icana is not a common species, it has been obtained at 
