LYCANIDA. “APHNEUS. 357 
gro. Aphnéus lohita, Horsfield. 
Amblypodta lohita, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C., p. 106, n. 38 (1829) ; Aphnaeus lohita, Hewitson, III. 
Diurn. Lep., p. 61, n. 4, pls xxv, figs. 10, 11 (1865); id., Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc, Lond., Zoology, second 
series, vol. i, p» 549, n. 1 (1877) ; SAzndasis lohita, Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p- 127, f. 136 (1886) ; 
id., Moore, Journ, Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 42 (1886); Spindasis lohita, var. negrita, Felder, 
“Verh. zool.-bot. Gesells. Wien, vol. xii, p. 487, n. 144 (1862); Amdlypodia pindarus, Horsfield and Moore 
(nec Fabricius), Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 37,0. 47 (1857); Aphneus lazularia, Moore, Lep. Cey., 
vol. i, p. 107, pl. xli, figs. 1, 14, male; 1a, femtale;1c, larve and pupe (1881); Aphneus himalayanus, 
Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lili, pt. 2, p. 26 (1884); A. Aimalayana, Waterhouse, Aid, vol. ii, pl, clxiii, 
figs. 4, 4a, stale (1885). 
HaBITAT: Himalayas, Assam, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Siam, Orissa, South India, 
Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Philippines, China. 
Expanse: @, 2, 1°2 to 1°8 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : ‘‘ UPPERSIDE, doth wings dingily fuscous clouded with whitish, fringed 
with hoary whitish ; darker in the male. /orewzzg [in the male] from the base to the middle, 
hindwing with the whole surface shining with violet; in the female with the fasciz of the 
underside obsoletely streaked; hindwing moreover with a triangular fulvous anal patch, 
bearing two black lunules, inwardly irrorated with silver ; with a larger inner subocellar lunule, 
placed upon a little appendage itself. UNDERSIDE, doth wings yellow, with fulvous fasciz, in 
the male reddish-purple, unmixed at the margin, each adorned with a continuous or very little 
interrupted median silvery streak. Forewzzg with seven fasciz, two marginal complete, the 
exterior unadorned, the third and fourth shortened beyond the disc confluent, the fifth complete 
tending towards the anal angle, the sixth halved terminated by the fuscous band of the paler 
anal area, the seventh basal smallest. Azzdw7e with six fascize, the two exterior parallel with 
the margin, the second complete produced curvedly towards the interior margin, the third 
halved, the fourth and fifth complete abruptly inflected in the anal region, the sixth basal 
abbreviated ; the anal region deep fulvous bearing two very black ocellate dots, the exterior 
between the tails oblong, inwardly increased by a silvery band, the innermost larger itself 
placed on a small appendage angular adorned with a short interior silvery streak.” 
«4, lohita, Horsfield, has the upperside brown, slightly variegated with gray, especially 
in the female, and marked with a few obsolete bands, of a deeper tint ; underneath the bands, 
comparatively with 4. vulcanus, Fabricius, are narrow, and wholly without any black 
marginal thread; the bands in the forewing are sevez in number, besides an obsolete angular 
basal spot, the third and fourth are abbreviated converging approximate or confluent behind 
the disc; in the hindwing the ¢hird zs dimidial regularly transverse and without any tendency 
to the second marginal band: in the character of the fourth and fifth bands this species agrees 
with 4. vudcanus, while both differ decidedly from A. syama, Horsfield.” (Horsjielid, 1. c.) 
‘*Larva [4. /azularia, Moore, from Ceylon] fusiform, head prominent; head and 
segments laterally minutely pilose ; greyish purple-brown minutely white-speckled, each seg- 
ment with a blackish transverse band and white lateral streak. Feeds on Convolvulacee. 
PuPa attenuated, thorax angular at the sides, purple-brown.” (AZvore, 1. c. in Lep. Cey.) 
A. lohita is a species which presents considerable difficulty, as in the large area which 
it inhabits it shows much variability. Two of these forms have been figured by Mr. Hewitson ; 
in one the red bands of the underside are very narrow, and the two short discal ones of the 
forewing well-separated. I have seen no variety from India agreeing with this figure, it is 
possible that it may be the Sumatran form, as Hewitson gives Sumatra and India as the 
habitat of this species. The other figure shows all the bands very broad and of a deep red, 
the discal bands confluent ; this appears to be the form occurring commonly at Rangoon. A 
form intermediate between these two extremes is the common Himalayan one. Until recently 
A. lohita was the name by which Indian specimens of this species were known, though 
the type was described from Java. Mr. Moore has however separated off several of these 
forms and described them as new species, but, as I think, on very insufficient grounds, As lately 
as 1836, however, he gave 4. Joféta as from Mergui, and his specimens from that locality” aré 
