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LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 
Hindwing with, a fine outer marginal black line. Underside muck as in Zizera maha, 
the spots smaller, the ground colour darker. 
Female. Upperside paler and duller in colour. Forewing with a diffuse blackish 
border, very broad. Hindwing with the costal and marginal areas slightly suffused 
with pale blackish. Underside as in the male. Cilia grey, brownish on the upper part 
of the forewing. Antennae black, ringed with white; head and body dark, with blue 
reflections above ; grey beneath, abdomen beneath white. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ 1 inch. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs. 1c, Id, ?). 
Male and Female. Upperside pale lavender-grey, both wings with very fine 
terminal black lines, more pronounced in the female, which has a slight thickening at 
the apex of forewing, and indications of a greyish sub-terminal, shaded thin band. 
Underside with the markings disposed as in the other form, but minute, and on the 
hind wing obscure. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ T 9 ¥ inch. 
Photo of Z. ossa .—The whole appendages are rather smaller, dorsal process 
fuller, clasps shorter 0*83 mm. (against 1*00 in if. maha). The base of the clasp 
is wider, giving a flask shape (= body, neck and 
head), as compared with the more cylindrical 
form in Maha. They are united together propor¬ 
tionately higher up. Assuming two terminal 
teeth as in Maha, then the upper one is very 
short and clearly adpressed to the lower, form¬ 
ing merely a notch on its upper margin, be¬ 
yond this there are no small teeth on the distal 
margin. The distal margin may be straight or 
recessed as in photo (Chapman). 
Habitat.— Southern India. 
Distribution. —Recorded by Aitken and Comber from the Konkan, by Watson 
from Mysore; it is in our collection from Poona, Bombay, Bangalore, Anamalli Hills, 
Mahableshwur, Ahmednagar; and in the B. M. also from Kolar, Ootacamund and 
Durbunga. 
ZIZERA GAIKA. 
Plate 635, figs. 2, $, 2a, $ , 2b, $ (Wet-season Brood), 2c, £, 2d, $ (Dry-season Brood). 
Lyceena gciika , Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1862, p. 403 ; id. South Air. Butt. ii. p. 50 (1887). 
Zizera gaika, Butler, Proc. Zool Soc. 1884, p. 484. de Hiceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 118, pi. 26, 
fig. 174, J (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 528. Watson, Journ. Bo. Hat. Hist. 
Soc. 1891, p. 44. Befcham, id. p. 177. Watson, id. 1897, p. 659. Mackinnon and de Niceville, 
