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very strong, termiuating about middle of costa ; subcostal uervure four- 

 branched/- — tlie first and second nervules originating (widely apart) 

 considerably before extremity of discoidal cell, tliird rather nearer apex 

 than to extremity of cell, and fourth terminating at apex ; upper radial 

 nervule springing from subcostal nervure a little distance beyond ex- 

 tremity of cell ; middle and lower disco-cellular nervules about equal 

 in length, slightly curved ; no tuft on inner margin in ^. Jlind-^vinjs 

 prominently produced in anal -angular portion ; costa rather strongly 

 arched ; costal nervure much arched, terminating at a little distance 

 before apex ; radial and disco-cellular nervules as in Hypolycama ; two 

 rather short, linear tails, respectively on submedian nervure and first 

 median nervule, of which the former is the longer ; no badge in ^. 

 Fore-legs of $ rather large, scaly, — femur with some thin fine hair 

 beneath ; tibia with three or four pairs of rather long spines beneath ; 

 tarsus closely spinulose beneath, and not perceptibly articulate, but with 

 pairs of longer spines indicating the articulations ; — of the ^ but a little 

 larger and thicker, — tarsus considerably thicker, distinctly articulate, 

 and with a pair of claws at extremity. Middle and hind legs stout, — 

 tibifB with well-developed terminal spurs ; tarsi strong, thickly spinulose 

 beneath. 



Laeva. — Rather elongate, broad anteriorly and about middle, but 

 narrowing considerably posteriorly ; segment next head apparently pro- 

 jecting as a short hood ; anal segment produced, and bristly. *' On 

 ConvolvulacecG (Thwaites)." — F. Moore. 



Pupa. — Rather slender, elongate ; thorax angulated laterally. 



(These characters of the larva and pupa are taken from the figures 

 of those of the Cingalese A. lazularia in Moore's Lepidoptera of Ccrjlon, 

 pi. 41, flf. ic.) 



Aphnccus is strictly an Old-World genus, but ranges widely through 

 Africa and Southern Asia, from Sierra Leone (A. Orcas, Drury") to 

 the Philippine Islands (A. Syama, Hewits.) Two species are Arabian, 

 and one of them {A. Acamas, Klug) is recorded from Asia Minor. 

 Of the twenty species known, nine are African and nine from India 

 and the Indo-Malayan Islands, four of the latter inhabiting Ceylon. 

 Seven of the African species are found in Southern Africa, and four of 

 them seem to be peculiar to the sub-region. I exclude from the genus 

 the Syrian and North-African species Cilissa, Zohra, and Siphax, 



^ In ^. Hutchinsonii, Trim, (and I believe in A. Orcas, Dniry), this nervure has five 

 branches, the third nervule arising rather nearer end of cell, and the fourth and fifth nervules 

 (of which the former ends at apex and the latter a little below it) originating about midway 

 between the origin of the third and the apex. 



- Hewitson (loc. cit.) describes an example of what he believes to be the female of Drury's 

 Oreas from the Hope Collection at Oxford. Through the kindness of Professor Westwood, 

 I had the opportunity, in 1867, of examining and noting the characters of this very speci- 

 men. It appeared to me to be a S , and certainly not identical with Orcas, — the under side 

 being ochreous-yellow, with all the silvery markings edged with purplish-ferruginous, while 

 that of Orcas is both described and figured by Drury as chocolate-brown generally, without 

 mention or delineation of any edging to the silvery markings. 



