346 LYCAINID AE, APHN AUS. : 
DESCRIPTION: ** MALE. UPPERSIDR, Jo¢h wings violet-blue. Forewing with the costal 
and outer margins, and a spot at the end of the cell dark brown. Aindwing with two tails; - 
the costal margin, which is broad, the outer margin and a submarginal line, dark brown ; . 
the anal lobe large and prominent. UNDERSIDE, forewing pale yellow-brown clouded with , 
darker brown near the outer margin, a spot at the end of the cell and a band beyond the, 
middle dark brown, a submarginal line of white. Aindwing broken into spots of different. 
shades of brown, the costal margin and two spots touching it pale yellow, the wing irro- 
rated with white near the outer margin, the margin pale brown, a submarginal line of white.” 
(Hewitson, 1. c.) FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, é0¢h wings purplish-black. Forewing with a small 
basal patch of violet occupying less than half the area of the wing. Aindwing with a fine 
marginal white line obsolete anteriorly (present in the male). Ci/ia alternately black and 
white. UNDERSIDE, doth wings like the male, 
The opposite sexes are at once distinguished by the hindwing being almost entirely blue in’ 
the male and black in the female. The markings of the underside of the hindwing are 
extremely complicated, but can be easily followed by an examination of the figure I have 
given, It is arare species, Mr. Otto Mdller possesses a single female taken in Bhutan in May, ' 
there is another in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Upper Assam, and the Revd. Walter 
A. Hamilton has sent me numerous examples of both sexes from Sylhet. 
The figure shows both sides of a female specimen from Bhutan in Mr. Otto Mdller’s 
collection. 
Genus 146.—-APEN.2EU8S, Hiibner. (PLATES XXV and XXVIII). 
Afphnaus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 81 (1816); id. (part), Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 60. 
(1865); id., Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 105 (1881) ; Cigaritis (part), Lucas, Explor. Alg., Zool., vol. iii, p. 362 
(1849); id., Trimen, South-Afr. Butt., vol. ii, p. 146 (1887) ; Spindasis, Wallengren, Lep. Rhop. Caffr. in Kong. 
Sv. vet.-akad. Hand., vol. ii, p. 45 (1857); id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 242 (1884) ; Asblypodia (part), 
Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 477 (1852); idem, id., Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Austr., vol. ii, ps 226 
1866). 
«WINGS, small. FOREWING, triangular ; /rst subcostal nervule emitted at one-half and 
second at one-third before the end of the discoidal cell, ¢hird and fifth emitted together 
at a short distance beyond the end of the cell, fourth at two-thirds from below the third and ter- 
minating at the apex ; désco-cellular nervules obliquely recurved, radial [/ower discoidal] nervule 
from their middle ; second median nervule close to the end of the cell, fs¢ median at one-half. 
before the end ; submedian nervure straight. H1INDWING, conical; costa gently arched, abdominal 
margin long, anal angle lobed; furnished with two tails ; costal nervure arched at base and 
curved to apex ; first subcostal nervule at one-fourth before the end of the discoidal cell ; disco- 
cellular nervules recurved; dzscoidal nervule from their middle ; second median nervule from 
close to the end of the cell; first median at one-half before the end; sudmedian nervure 
straight, infernal nervure recurved. Bopy, short, robust; pa/pi porrect, squamose, second 
joint long, third short; /egs squamose, femora slightly pilose beneath ; an/enne with the 
club long, stout. Zyes smooth. Type, A. orcas, Drury,” from Sierra Leone. (AZoore, 1. c.) 
In A. syama, Horsfield, the costal nervure ends opposite to the apex of the discoidal 
cell, the first subcostal nervule is slightly arched upwards towards the costal nervure, but 
does not touch it, the base of the second subcostal nervule is nearer to the base of the first 
than to the base of the upper discoidal, the third subcostal is rather short, and is emitted 
nearer the apex of the wing than of the cell; middle and lower disco-cellular nervules very 
upright, of equal length, the middle slightly concave, the lower straight, the middle (there is 
no upper disco-cellular) meeting the costal nervure just at the point where it gives off the upper. 
discoidal, this vein being Mr. Moore’s fifth subcostal nervule, second median nervule given off 
from the median nervure a short distance before the lower end of the cell. Hindwing has the 
tails rather long, springing from the terminations of the first median nervule and submedian 
nervure, sometimes of equal length, often with the inner tail twice as long as the outer. The 
palpi in the females are longer than ip the males, 
