64 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
The under side is reddish-brown. The markings are very 
indistinct, consisting of slender silver lines and a few black 
scales. Even the anal patch is merged into the rest of the 
ground colour, and the usual black spots are absent. 
This is found on the Uva patanas at high elevations, but I 
have seen specimens from Badulla. 
These are the only three races in my collection, but I think 
others could be picked out of the specimens in the Colombo 
Museum. Possibly No. 1 may prove to be an extreme dry 
season form of Nos. 2 and 3, but in general appearance it is 
very distinct. 
129. APHNa&Us NuBILUS.—Is said to be distinguished from 
A. ictis by the absence of an orange spot on the fore wing of 
the male. If this were so, the majority of my specimens of 
what I have described as A. ictis—No. 3 race—are nubilus. 
At Elephant Pass, in the Jaffna Peninsula, there is a 
common Aphnzus which is, I believe, true nubilus. It flies 
there with A. ictis, race No. 1, but I have, so far, found it 
nowhere else. 
It is as widely distinct from ictis—No. 1—in appearance as 
any other Aphneus in Ceylon, and I have so far seen no signs 
of grading. 
$.—Upper side: ground colour intense black, a dark blue 
irridescence covering the lower half of the fore wing and all 
the hind wing, except the anal patch, which is dark red. It 
strongly resembles lohita 3, but the shape of the wings is 
different. Under side dark brick-red, with clearly defined 
markings ; anal lobe with two large black spots with a border 
above varying from yellowish to deep red. 
9.—Upper side: ground colour lighter than in the 3; a 
small very diffuse orange spot on fore wing, the blue irrides- 
cence of the male being replaced by a slight dusting of pale 
blue scales. Under side as in ¢. 
The very deep red of the under side is in striking contrast 
to the gamboge-yellow of A. ictis, No. 1, and they can be at 
once distinguished from one another, when settled, as far as 
they are visible. 
130. APHNAUS LILACINUS ABNORMIS.—Given by Evans as 
occurring in Southern India and Ceylon. 
