324 LYCAZNID/:. AZANUS, 
Mr. Moore has himself sunk his Z. zena as a synonym of the Pufi/io ubaldus of Cramer, 
as it is probable that when he described 4. zena he was unaware that Cramer had figured it in 
the preceding century. Messrs. Butler and Swinhoe have not followed Mr. Moore in this 
matter, but keep 4. zena distinct from A. udaldus. As neither of these writers have indicated 
how these two supposed distinct species differ the one from the other—and Iam unable to say 
from Cramer's figure what the distinctions are—I have followed Mr. Moore in uniting them 
under the older name, more especially as I can find no character by which to segregate my long 
series of specimens from far distant localities into two species. 
A. ubaldus occurs inthe Western Himalayas, Sind, the Punjab, the Deccan, Orissa, and 
again in South India (Bangalore. and the Nilgiri and Pulni Hills) ; and Mr. Francis A. Fairlie 
took a specimen in July at Jaffna in Ceylon, whence this species has not previously been 
recorded. Colonel A. M. Lang notes that it is ‘common in Oudh in the winter months, 
November to February. I have caught it also at Umballa, in the Punjab. It is not an 
Himalayan insect.” This last remark is not quite correct, subsequent investigation having 
shown that it occurs on the outer ranges of the Himalayas. Major Yerbury has found it on 
Babul trees in October in the Punjab. Its transformations are undescribed, but Mr. W. C. 
Taylor of Orissa informs me that the “larva feeds on Acacia leucophiwa, a tree something like 
a Babul.” Mr. Doherty (I. c, p. 112) states that, though the larvze are attended by ants, the 
twelfth segment is not furnished with the usual protrusible bunches of hairs. It may be that 
in this species these organs have become entirely aborted from disuse through being no longer 
required (owing to the vigilant protection of the ants) to frighten away enemies. 
708. Azanus uranus, Butler. 
A. uranus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 366, n, 40, pl. xxxv, fig. 1, ale ; idem, id., Ann. and 
Mag. of Nat. Hist., sixth series, vol. i, p. 146, n. 44 (1888), 
Hasitar: Hassan Abdal, 13th October; Campbellpore, 8th June, 29th October, 17th, 
21st and 29th November, Punjab; Chitta Pahar, Lumbahdoon, 2,000 feet, 28th November 
(Butler) ; Karachi, three taken in August, 1885, and one taken by Captain Becher, in the Hubb 
River in September, 1885 (Szwzhoe) ; Oudh; Malda district ; Kumaon ; Sikkim ; Orissa ; 
Madras ; and the Deccan. 
EXpaNsE: @, 2, ‘8 to ‘9 of an inch. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘MALE, Allied to 4. zena, Moore [= A. udbaldus, Cramer], but differing 
from all specimens in the [British] Museum series, or that of Mr. Moore’s collection, in the much 
brighter and more uniform lilac colour of the UPPERSIDE (in A. zena it is chiefly confined to 
the middle of the wings, and has almost the appearance of a brand) ; in the brighter blue at the 
base, the browner tint of the UNDERSIDE, on which the white-edged markings are consequently 
less well-defined ; and in the obsolete character of the black spots, which are either reduced to 
minute points or wholly absent.” (Budler, 1. c. in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.) FEMALE. UppEr- 
sipk, both wings blue on the disc and base, the costa and outer margins broadly pale fuscous. 
UNDERSIDE, 40th wings like the male. 
« 4.uranus and A, ubaldus agree in the uniform lilac colouring of the upperside in the male; 
but the pattern of the underside and the colouring of the female on both sides in A. wbaldus 
much more nearly agrees with A. zena; indeed, though the males of 4. zena and A. ubaldus 
are as unlike and as easy to separate as any two species of Zycena, the females may readily be 
confounded. The female of A. uvanus is either pale copper-brown suffused with lilac, or lilac 
bordered with copper-brown, on the upperside ; on the underside it only differs from the male in 
having the black spots of the hindwing rather better defined ; the bands on the underside are (as in 
the male) grey, whereas in A. zena and A. ubaldus they are copper-brown ; the pattern of the bands 
differs chiefly in their more macular character.” (Bu/éler, 1. c. in Ann. and Mag, of Nat. Hist.) 
A, uranus appears to be a perfectly good and distinct species. Colonel Swinhoe has 
recorded it from Biluchistan, it occurs at Karachi in Sind, several places in the Punjab, at 
Faizabad in Oudh, Mr. W. H, Iivine has sent me a long series of both sexes taken at Bholah&t 
in the Malda district, Mr. Otto Moller has taken it in the Sikkim terai in July and August, 
