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India and Ceylon 3 another appears to be purely Indian 3 while a third species occurs in Africa, 
Syria, India, and Ceylon ; two more are purely African. If, as is probable, the four species of 
Mr. Trimen’s Section E, of the genus Zycena* belong to the genus Azanus, then the genus will 
be further extended into South, and South and North Tropical Africa. Nospecies appears to 
occur in Europe, or eastwards of Bengal. In India three species occur ; they are all small, 
not more than an inch in expanse ; males blue on the upperside, one species with a somewhat 
broad outer pale fuscous border ; underside pale brownish, with numerous bands and spots. 
The females as usual have the blue coloration of the upperside more or less restricted to the 
base, or absent altogether, The transformations of no species have been described. 
Key to the Indian species of Azanus. 
A. Underside with no blackish spot near the middle of the cell of the forewing ; but with two small black 
dots on the costa above the spot on the disco-cellular nervules. 
@, Male with the outer margins of both wings on the upperside broadly pale fuscous ; both sexes 
with the markings of the underside conspicuous. 
707. A. UBALDUS, Somali-land, Africa; Aden; Western Himalayas; Western and 
Southern India ; Ceylon. 
6, Male with the outer margins of both wings on the upperside defined by a narrow anteciliary 
black line only ; both sexes with the black spots of the underside obsolete 
708. A, URANUS, Biluchistan, Sind, Western Himalayas, Punjab, Oudh, Malda, Sikkim, 
Orissa, South India. 
B. Underside with a prominent round black spot near the middle of the cell of the forewing; no black 
dots on the costa above the spot on the disco-cellular nervules. 
7og- A. GAMRA, Abyssinia, Aden, Syria, Punjab, Kumaon, Central and South India, Ceylon, 
707. Azanus ubaldus, Cramer, 
Papilio xbaldzs, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. iv, p. 209, pl. ccexe, figs. L, M, male (1782) ; id., Herbst, Pap., pl. 
ecexil, figs. 3,4, ale (1804); Polyommatus ubaldus, Godart, Enc. Méth., vol. ix, p. 682, n. 204 (1823) ; 
Azanus ubaldus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Sec. Lond., 1882, p. 245; id., Butler, 1. c., 1886, p. 366, n. 41 3 id., 
Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. ly, pt. 2, p. 132, n. 162 (1886) ; Catochrysops ubaldus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1883, p. 149, n. 16 ; Lycexa senda, Moore, |. c., 1865, p. 505, n. 107, pl. xxxi, fig. 9, female; Azanus 
zena, Butler, ]. c., 1884, p. 483, n. 11; idem, id., lc., 1885, p. 763, n. 18 ; idem, id., 1. c., 1886, p. 365, n. 39; 
id., Swinhoe, |, c., 1884, p. 507, n. 28; idem, id., 1885, p. 134, n- 73 3 idem, id., 1886, p. 428, n.57. 
HasitaT: Coromandel Coast (Cramer); plains of N.-W. India; N.-W. Himalayas (A/oore) 
Karachi, July and August; Poona, November to January and in August ; Ahmednuggur 
June, August, and September ; Mhow, January, April, May, September to November (Szizhoe) ; 
Ranibagh and Haldwani at the foot of the hills, Jhulaghat in the Kali Valley, 2,000 feet, 
Kumaon (Doherty) ; near Attock Bridge, Khairabad side, November; Mhow, October and 
November; Aden, March, June, September and November ; Huswah, near Aden, March and 
September ; Kutch; Karachi; Somali-land; Campbellpore, Punjab, November (z/éd7). 
Throughout India generally, except in Bengal, Assam and Burma ; also in Ceylon. 
EXPANSE: 6, 2, ‘75 to I'00 inch. 
DESCRIPTION: MALE. UPPERSIDE, oth wéngs shining bluish-purple. Forewéng with 
the apex broadly and the outer margin decreasingly pale shining fuscous ; the blue scales on the 
disc apparently differently-formed to those on the rest of the wing, giving the appearance of a 
sexual streak or brand. Azzdzzng with the costal and outer margins somewhat broadly pale 
shining fuscous. UNDERSIDE, doth wings exactly as in the female. FEMALE. “UPPERSIDE, Colm 
wzngs pale purple-brown. Hzzdwing with a small brown spot near the anal angle of the exterior 
margin. UNDERSIDE, doth wings pale grey, exterior margins defined by a brown line. Fore- 
wing, with a black dot [always two] on the costa, one-third from apex, a disco-cellular spot, 
an interrupted transverse discal band, and a submarginal lunulated line pale brown, each with 
whitish borders. Azzdwing with three subbasal spots, another on anterior margin, and two 
from anal angle black, encircled with white, a discal series of pale whitish lines, and a marginal 
row of white circles.”” (Moore, 1. ¢. in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond,, 1865). Mr. Moore figured this 
species under the name of Z. zeva with a tail to each hindwing ; this is of course incorrect. 
* South-African Butterflies, vol. ii, p. 72 (1887), 
