. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 498 INEMEOBIDiE. plum-brown; fore wing with the apical area paler and traversed preapically by a very obscure and diffuse broad greyish fascia. Hind wing uniform without markings. Underside brighter ochraceous red, the preapical grey fascia on the fore wing as on the upperside but much more clearly denned, traversed by veins 6, 7 and 8, and inwardly margined with brownish; fore and hind wings with numerous black spots, the outer row margined with grey on the outer side. the rest more or less with silvery blue, terminal margins with a prominent sub- _ • _
. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 498 INEMEOBIDiE. plum-brown; fore wing with the apical area paler and traversed preapically by a very obscure and diffuse broad greyish fascia. Hind wing uniform without markings. Underside brighter ochraceous red, the preapical grey fascia on the fore wing as on the upperside but much more clearly denned, traversed by veins 6, 7 and 8, and inwardly margined with brownish; fore and hind wings with numerous black spots, the outer row margined with grey on the outer side. the rest more or less with silvery blue, terminal margins with a prominent sub- _ • _ " , terminal series of transversely linear ^, , margined on both sides by race fasciata, 3. \. b *=J i? 6 J brown; a terminal slender dark line. Antennae reddish brown; head, thorax, and abdomen brown beneath very pale ochraceous brown.— $ . Similar. Upperside dull ochraceous red, the preapical oblique bar on fore wing as in the S, but much broader and more distinct; the spots of the under- side on both fore and hind wings showing faintly through by transparency. Underside very bright ochraceous red ; the white preapical band on the fore wing as on the upperside; the spots on both fore and hind wings as in the <5, but smaller, of a rich dark red, outwardly margined with silvery grey; the subterminal series of transversely linear spots as in the S, but further from the margin; the terminal dark line more clearly defined. Exp. tf 2 52-55 mm. (2-15-2-17"). Hab. Burma; Tenasserim. A slightly differentiated form of the Malayan Taxila haquinus, Fabr. Differs from it chiefly in the less prominent spotting on the underside and in the white, not grey, preapical patch on the fore wing in the $ . Genus ZEMEROS. Zemeros, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i, 1836, pi. 21, fig. 5 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 307 j Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 95. Type, , Cramer, from India, China, &c. Range. Indo-Malayan Eegion. S 2 • Fore wing very broadly t
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