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corethrogyne in female whitish. Legs black with bluish-green shine in 
male, brownish -black in female. Fore wing elongate-subovate, costa 
strongly arched anteriorly, little curved posteriorly, slightly prominent 
beyond middle in male, in middle in female, apex obtuse, terrnen straight, 
vertical above, rounded beneath. White with a bluish gloss; a narrow 
blue-green-black basal patch continued as a line along base of dorsum 
Fig. 24a. Zacorisca daphnaea Meye., male 
genitalia. 
and along costa to beyond 1 / 4 , thence merging into apical patch; apical 
third of wing in male, apical fourth in female, deep brassy-ferruginous, 
becoming bluish-black towards anterior edge of this patch, especially 
above; this edge slightly diffuse through irroration of white scales, 
gradually arched, more convex in female, and running from dorsum just 
before tornus to costa slightly beyond middle. Cilia fuscous-fulvous with 
brassy gloss, basal third ferruginous. Hind wing brassv-brown, discal 2 / s 
suffused with bluish-purple; this suffusion coarsely irrorated with bluish- 
white from below upper edge of cell as far as vein la and beyond cell except 
along vein lc; hind w T ing on dorsum irrorated with purplish-blue-green; 
hind wing in female (possibly rubbed and somewhat faded) with anterior 
3 / 4 fuscous-grey, in cell, below, and beyond cell suffused with bluish- 
white, coarsely irrorated with fuscous grey, along vein la, anti along fold 
touched with indigo-bluish. Cilia snow-white along costa around apex 
and along upper half of terrnen, brassy-golden along lower half, becoming 
pale golden in tornus, blackish along dorsum; basal third of cilia except 
along costa, brassy-brown. 
Uncus very broad, top rounded, Gnathos moderate, broad at base, 
hook short. Socius: a series of sparse bristles. Transtilla knob strong, 
bristled, median projection sclerotized. Penicnlus short, subtriangular. 
Juxta cup-shaped, anterior edge rounded. Valva plicate, with a tri- 
angular projection in disc. Aedoeagus pistol-shaped; cornuti, a sheaf of 
long spines. (Slide No. 308 D.) 
