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and greatly extended towards the inner margin; also three spots arranged in an interior 
series each bearing a medial silvery dot, and lastly a triangular basal spot contiguous to the 
body ; the anal region deeply fulvous ocellated with two very black dots, the interior is orbicular, 
very large itself placed upon a small appendage, both inwardly increased with silvery striolz.” 
‘““ 4. syama, Horsfield, agrees on the upperside with 4. /ohita, Horsfield ; underneath 
the wings are sulphureous-yellow and marked with dands of a black colour, while the inter- 
mediate argentine strigz are partially interrupted ; in the forewing the third and fourth bands 
are parallel; the third is dimidial deeply indented on each side in the middle; the fourth is 
greatly abbreviated ; the fifth ts complete, somewhat distended in the middle and then tapering to a 
point, having a generaltendency to the inner apical [anal] angle ; at the base is a short longi- 
tudinal litura ; the hindwing has four bands; the third, from the posterior margin, is dimidial, 
the fourth forms a sudden curve in the anal region and then ascends along the whole course 
of the inner margin, until it terminates at the thorax; interior of this are ¢hree oblong 
marks, individually ornamented with a@ sz/very dot, disposed in a regularly transverse series, 
and finally at the base, a triangular spot, touching the thorax,” (Horsfeld, 1. c.) 
The male of this species has the blue gloss of the upperside of the same shade as in 
‘A, lunulifera, Moore, only more restricted, in the forewing the black apical area larger, and 
the black outer margin wider, in the hindwing sharply bounded anteriorly by the second 
subcostal nervule. It never has any ochreous markings on the upperside of the forewing as is often 
the case in A. lunulifera. A.syama isa very variable species on the underside, and, but for the 
splendid series of it in my possession from Sikkim, for which I am indebted to Mr. Otto Mdller, 
would be a very puzziing one. Typical specimens, which are the commonest, have the ground- 
colour pale yellow, or sulphurous as Horsfield describes it, with the bands black. In the next step 
we have the ground-colour still yellow, but the bands instead of being black are reddish-black. 
The next step shows the ground-colour very pale yellow, the bands distinctly red. From this 
point there is every gradation from a very pale red to an ochreous deep red ground, the bands 
being much deeper red still; these specimens are typical A. Aeguanus, Moore. I sent nine 
of these varietal specimens from Sikkim to Mr. Moore, who returned them labelled “ appear to 
be A. peguanus.” He described the latter species with reference to A. Johita, Horsfield, from 
which of course it is abundantly distinct, for the club-shaped mark in the cell of the forewing 
on the underside proclaims its relationship to A. syama, and not to A. /ohita, the latter having a 
mark hook-shaped. Mr, W. C. Taylor has sent me nine male and six female specimens from 
Orissa, no two of which agree exactly in the colour of the ground on the underside ; these are 
the A. orissanus of Moore, whose description of it is appended.* The type specimen is in the 
Indian Museum, Calcutta. 4. syama is a very common species in Sikkim ; it occurs as typical 
A. syama, A, peguanus, and intermediates in the Khasi Hills, and is not rare in Burma, where all 
the forms that occur in Sikkim are also found. I append a description of dA. peguanus as a 
foot-note.t 
* Aphneus orissanus, Moore. Hasirat: Sonakhala and Bhatpara, Orissa. ExpansE: Made, x'1 inches. 
Description: ‘Mave, forewing broader and less regularly triangular than in 4. khurdanus, Moore. 
[A. khurdanus belongs to quite a different group to A. syama, Horsfield, from the latter at best, A orissanus 
is but doubtfully distinct.) A’/adwing also less produced anally, and the exterior margin convex. UppERSIDE, 
both wings dark brown. Forewing with the base slaty-blue. [This blue colouring is most brilliant and rich 
in certain lights, it is dull slaty in some lights only}. //zndwiag slaty-blue, anal lobe red, spots black. 
UnpersiweE, both wings pale ochreous-yellow, bands purple-red, similar to those in A. Jeguanis, Moore, 
with the marginal band black-streaked.” (A/oore, 1. c.) 
+ Aphnaus peguanus, Moore. Hapirat: Magaree, Pegu. ExpaNnsE: 1°3 to 1°4 inches. DsscripTIon : 
** Mace. Comparatively larger than A. lohita, Horsfield. UprrrsipE, doth wings similarly coloured. Aind- 
wing with the anal area dull red, the large black lobe-spot replaced by a few interciliary black and silver 
scales. UNDERSIDE, both wings very pale reddish-ochreous; the bands dark red, somewhat narrower than 
in A. lohita. Forewing with the streak at base longitudinal, narrow, and not extending above the costal 
nervure, the short transverse broad end crossing the cell in A. /okita is here absent ; the band cross.ng the middle 
of the cell is also shorter, the oblique discal and submarginal bands quite confluent at their posterior end, the 
inner costal band beyond the cell is short, and the next band is the longest, both being widely-separated— 
whereas in A. loftta the inner band is the longest and the two are joined externally in the middle, the sub- 
marginal band is narrower, and the marginal band very slender. AH/ndwing with the subbasal band composed 
of three well-separated portions ; anal lobe red, with a small interciliary black-speckled streak ; the submarginal 
and marginal band narrower, the latter being interrupted in crossing the veius."’ ~ (JZ007¢, 1. c.) ; 
