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Female, like the male, but the ground colour above is darker and duller, and 
both wings have broad, suffused, brownish outer marginal bands; on the underside the 
markings are like those of the male of the Wet-season form. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ 1 inch. 
Photo of Z. maha — As compared with Z. ossa, the dorsal processes are slighter. 
The clasps are much more slender, especially basally, longer, viz., 1*00 mm., and 
attached to each other to a higher level. The ter- 
teeth, well 
separated; there are always one or more small teeth 
along the distal margin (Chapman). 
Larva. —When full-grown about 0 ■ 4 of an inch 
in length, green, onisciform, with a dorsal line of a 
darker green than the ground, the entire upper surface 
shagreened, the minute whitish tubercles giving out 
very fine short colourless hairs. No distinctive 
markings whatever. Head smooth, black, shining as usual. Feeds in Calcutta on 
Oxalis corniculata, Linnaeus. 
Pupa. —Very pale green, attached to the underside of the leaves of the food plant; 
finely hairy, without markings, of the usual Lycaenid shape (de Niceville). 
Habitat. —Northern India, North Burma. 
Distribution. —Elwes records it from the Naga and Karen Hills, Watson from 
the Chin Hills, Mackinnon from Mussuri, de Rhe-Philipe from Lucknow, Leslie and 
Evans from Chitral, Manders from the Shan States, Betham from Pachmari; it is in 
our collection from Ranchi, Mhow, Kulu and the Khasia Hills; and in the B. M. 
from Hassan Abdul, Campbellpur, Rawul Pindi, Chittar Pahar, Akhor, Deval, Buguster, 
Murree, Nander, Sikkim, Cachar and Calcutta. 
minal teeth have two nearly equal large 
ZIZERA OSSA. 
Plate 635, figs. 1, £, la, J, lb, $ (Wet-season Brood), lc, $, Id, $ (Dry-season Brood). 
Zizera ossa, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 132, pi. 9, figs. 11, $, 12, $ . de Niceville, Butt, of 
India, iii. p. 115 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 34. 
Zizera maha, Aitken and Comber (nec Kollar), Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1903, vol. xv. p. 43. 
Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 355 (1907). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, la, fj>, lb, £). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside of a uniform pale grey-blue, with the exception of the 
basal area where there are some dark blue scales. Forewing with the costal line black, 
apex narrowly black, fining down to a fine marginal line towards the hinder angle. 
