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ALLIED INDO-MALAYAN SPECIES. 
Tarucus fasciatus, Rober, Iris, 1884, p. 194, pi. 9, fig. 15. Habitat, Bankei. 
Tarucus clathratus, Holland, PrOc. Boston Soc. xxv. p. 71, pi. 5, fig. 8, $ (1891). Habitat, Celebes. 
Tarucus waterstraclti, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 585, pi. 32, fig. 21. Habitat, Borneo. 
Tarucus Jluvialis, Grose-Smith, Hov. Zool. ii. p. 511 (1895). Habitat, South Celebes. 
Genus ZIZERA. 
Zizera, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 78 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 212 (1884). cle Niceville, 
Butt, of India, iii. p. 110 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 355 (1907). 
Imago. —Eyes naked ; antennae less than half the length of the costa of fore wing, 
club elongate, concave on the underside, palpi sub-porrect, long, thickly fringed in 
front with stiff hairs, third joint about three-fourths the length of the second, body 
and legs robust. Forewing , costa arched, apex more or less blunt, outer margin 
convex, hinder angle obtuse, hinder margin slightly sinuate, about three-fourths the 
length of the costa, the outer margin consequently short; first sub-costal nervure 
strongly bowed upwards a little beyond its origin and touching the costal nervure, 
the latter at the point of junction is slightly bowed downwards, second sub-costal 
given off midway between the bases of the first sub-costal and upper discocellular, 
third sub-costal given off at less than half the distance between the apex of the cell 
and of the wing, reaching the costa long before the apex of the wing, sub-costal 
nervure terminating at the apex, middle discocellular nervule slightly outwardly 
oblique, concave, lower discocellular as long as the middle, concave, slightly inwardly 
oblique, hardly differs in venation from the genus Lgcsenopsis, but the second median 
nervule is given off at, instead of before, the lower end of the cell, as in that genus, the 
species of the genus Zizera has, however, a very distinct facies of their own, some of 
them are the smallest of butterflies. 
Larva. —Green onisciform, the upper portion of the body finely shagreened or 
covered with short tubercles emitting colourless hairs, no prominent markings. 
Pupa. —Pale green, of the usual Lycsenid form, finely hairy (de Niceville). 
Type. — Zizera maha, Kollar. 
Moore quotes Alsus as the type, but he described the structure of Maha , believing 
that the European Alsus (which belongs to the genus Cupido ) was congeneric; Alsus 
was not represented in his collection. 
ZIZERA MAHA. 
Plate 634, figs. 3, J , 3a, $, 3b, $ (Wet-season Brood), 3c, 3d, $ (Dry-season Brood). 
Lycsena maha , Kollar, Hugel’s Kaschmir, iv. (2), p. 422 (1848). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, 
p. 528. 
