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is much smaller, but in three specimens it is as large as in A. schistacea, and they would 
be that species, only the broader deeper red bands of the underside proclaim them to be 
A. fusca. The female is quite distinct from A. schistacea, having no plumbeous-silvery 
irrorations on the upperside. Mr. Fairlie’s specimens are from Kandy, Patlam, and Jaffna 
taken in July, Mr. Hutchison records it from ‘Colombo, in cinnamon gardens, has a 
quick flight, almost invariably settles on the leaves of cinnamon plants.” A. fusca has so far 
only been received from Ceylon. It is possible that the specimens I identify as 4. vudcanus 
would becalled 4. fusca by Mr. Moore ; in fact I greatly doubt if any true line of division can 
be drawn between the two species. 
905. Aphnous schistacea, Moore. 
A. schistacea, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 106, pl. xli, figs. 3, male ; 3a, 34, female (1881) ; A. schistaceus, 
Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, p. 134, n. 77. 
HasiTar: Ceylon ; Sattara, September ; Ootacamund. 
EXPANSE ; ¢, 1°23; 2, 1°4 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘‘ MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings greyish violet-brown, basal areas slightly 
grey-blue. forewing with three or four more or less prominent orange-yellow transverse 
streaks, the two middle ones often bifid. Aindwing with an orange-yellow anal patch and two 
black spots at the angle, [the lower discal area extending anteriorly to the discoidal nervule glossed 
with brilliant iridescent blue in some lights]. UNDERSIDE, doth wings pale yellow. Forewing 
with a black-bordered red spot at the base of the discoidal cell, a band across the middle of 
the cell, a lengthened band at its end and crossing obliquely to near posterior angle, two short 
bands beyond, followed by a submarginal and a marginal band, each band proceeding from the 
costal margin, and all but the outer traversed by a silver line. Aindwing with a lengthened 
similar band extending irregularly from the costa own the abdominal margin, two transverse 
medial bands, an upper discal band, and a submarginal band, the latter and the outer medial band 
confluent at their lower ends and extending into a red anal patch; marginal line and an inner 
row of narrow spots, and two spots on the anal lobe black.” (Afvore, 1. c.) FEMALE, UPPERSIDE, 
both wings very much paler than in the male, all the black bands of the underside showing 
through, the lower discal area of the forewing, the disc and especially the anal angle of the hind- 
wing sprinkled with plumbeous-silvery scales. Forewing with a diffused ciscal orange patch 
about the discoidal nervules. UNDERSIDE, doth wings with the ground-colour paler, otherwise 
as in the male. 
In describing the female of this species Mr. Moore only notes that it differs from the male 
on the upperside of the forewing in the two middle orange-yellow transverse streaks being 
“often also joined at the lower end to the outer steaks.’’ The general facées of the two sexes is 
however entirely different. It is a variable species, in a considerable series of both sexes before 
me from Ceylon, and the female from Sattara in Colonel Swinhoe’s collection, I find that the 
extent of the orange markings on the upperside of the forewing is very variable, as also are 
the breadth, tone of coloration, and direction of the bands on the underside ; in the forewing 
in some specimens the two short discal bands are parallel to one another and quite free from 
third and sixth bands respectively, in other specimens they are completely joined to those 
bands. Mr. Fairlie has taken A. schistacea in considerable numbers at Jaffna in Ceylon in 
January and July ; Mr. Wade records it from ‘‘ Colombo, common.” Sattara and the Nil- 
giris are the only Indian localities that I know for this species. I received my Nilgiri specimen 
from Colonel Swiuhoe, so he is responsible for both the Indian localities given forit. I think it 
highly probable that this species too will be proved to be a varietal form only of A. vulcanus, 
Fabricius, 
906. Aphnaous hypargyrus, Butler. 
Spindasis hyfargyros, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 369, n. 55, pl. xxxv, fig. 3; idem, id., Ann. 
and Mag. of Nat. Hist., sixth series, vol. i, p. 151, n. 63 (1888); Afhneus acamas, id. (nec Klug), |. c., 
fifth series, vol. ix, p. 208, n. 12 (1882); id., Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1884, p. 507, n. 29; idem, 
id.,, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1885, p. 342, n. 28, 
