ZEPIITEUS. 381 
Naikuiida in July and August, on the Jalauii Pass at the end of July, 
in Kulu at 7000 feet in July, and from 8000 to 9000 feet in September, 
and also in Kumaon. 
Dr. Fixsen (Eom. sur Lep. iii. p. 268) seems to consider Z. icana, Moore, 
synonymous with ' Lijpsas ' micans, Bremer and Grey ; but this species is not 
in any -nay to be confounded Avith Z. icana, and is not even congeneric 
with it. 
Zephyrus bieti. 
Thecla bieti, Oberthiir, Etud. d'Entom. si. p. 19, pi. iv. fig. 22, cJ (1886). 
" Voisire de Qiiercvs, mais d'un bleu plus obscur en dessus et la bordure noire marginale beau- 
coup plus large. La J differe du cJ de la meme fagon que dans qtwrcus, c'est-a-dire par 
deux tacbes bleu brillant et deux ou trois points oranges aux ailes superieures. La frange 
est brun jaunatrc. Lc dessous differe de quercus, parce que la teinte gris argente est 
remplacce par du brun saupoudre d'une multitude d'atomes jaune orange, et que la ligne 
transversale allant du bord costal des superieures au bord anal des inferieures est jaune clair 
et paraUcle au bord exterieur. Cette ligne est interieurement accompagnee d'une ombre 
rougeatre tres fine et exterieurement d'une bande submarginale de j)etits croissants rouge- 
atres. Les espaces cellulaires sont clos par un trait rougeatre." (Ohertlmr, I. c.) 
Occurs commonly from May to August at Che-tou, Ta-chien-lu, and Moupin 
in Western China and at How-kow in Thibet. Tt is found at various eleva- 
tions up at 10,000 feet. 
Zephyrus signata. (Plate xx^'ll. fig. 12, ? .) 
Thecla signata, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 854; Waterhouse, Aid Identif. 
Ins. pi. csiv. fig. 2 (1882) ; Pryer, Rhop. Niton, p. 16, pi. iv. fig. 19 (1886). 
" AUied to T. arata and T. tyrianthina. Primaries above -with the discoidal cell, the interno- 
median interspace almost to outer margin, and the basal half of the median interspaces bright 
pure lilac, the remainder of the wings and the veins dark brown, shot with lilac ; secondaries 
rather pale fuliginous brown with bronzy reflections, the discoidal cell sprinkled with lilac 
scales. Wings below pale golden brown : primaries with two sliglitly darker spots in the 
cell, margined and partly connected by silvery-white lines ; a slightly oblique band from costa 
to first median branch, edged on both sides with silvery-white lines ; a submarginal series of 
indistinct white lunules, the last two of which bound two dusky spots ; internal area shiuing 
whitish ; fringe dusky : secondaries with two abbreviated silvery-white lines across the base 
of the subcostal area, the inuer one curved ; a nearly M-shapcd character of the sumo colour 
crossed by the median vein ; two widely aiigulated, slender, iuternipted white lines from the 
abdominal margin to the median vein ; an oblique white line from the costal margin to the 
first median branch, and a chain-like double white line from the apex to the second median 
branch ; a large black-spotted orange spot on the anal area (the anal third of the wing is 
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