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917. Aphneus nubilus, Moore. 
A. nubilus, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. iii, p. 530, pl. ccx, figs. 1,14, male; 1a, female (1887). 
HasitatT : Ceylon (J@oore), 
ExpANSE: @, 9, I°1 inches, 
DESCRIPTION : ‘* Nearest to 4. lyzalaria, Moore [=4. Johita, Horsfield]. MALE smaller. 
UPPERSIDE, 40/4 wings paler, the basal areas of a duller blue. Windwing with the anal lobe 
reddish-brown, with ill-defined black spots. UNDERSIDE, doth wines ochreous, bands not 
prominent, reddish, narrower, similarly disposed except the short upper discal band on the 
forewing being composed of two well-separated portions, the marginal line composed of indis+ 
tinct narrow points. Hindwing, the second subbasal band composed of three short separated 
portions, the lowest not extending to the end of the middle band. FEMALE, Also smaller 
than A. Jazularia, Uppersipe, both wings with the basal areas iron-grey, UNDERSIDE, 
both wings more red than in the male.” (Afoore, 1. c.) 
‘Wattegama, Ceylon, May ” (Wackwood). 
This species may typically be known by the male having no orange spot on the 
upperside of the forewing, thereby differing from typical A. rc/7s, Hewitson. It cannot belong 
to the 4, Johzta-group (=A. Jazularta, Moore), as the subbasal band on the underside of 
the hindwing is divided into spots, while in 4. /ofzta it is entire. Mr. Fairlie possesses several 
male specimens which appear to be this species. These have the ground-colour reddish-ochreous 
rather than ochreous, much as in A. concanus, Moore. He has others, however, which are 
distinctly intermediate, the ground-colour being yellow, as in 4. zctzs, and the forewing above 
unspotted, as in typical 4. mudilus. A female from Ceylon, which agrees with the males with 
the reddish-ochreous underside, differs from the female, as described by Mr. Moore, in having a 
rather small orange patch on the upperside of the forewing on the disc, I feel no doubt therefore 
that A. nudilus is a varietal form only of A. zctzs. 
918. Aphneaus lunullfera, Moore. 
A. lunulifera, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 140. 
HABITAT : Darjiling (4/oore). 
EXPANSE: 6, 1°2 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : MALE. “ UppeRSIDR, Joth wengs dark greyish-blue, the borders dark brown. 
Forewing with a small ochreous-red lunule beyond the end of the cell. AHzndwing with a dark 
ochreous-red anal lobe, containing two prominent black silver-streaked spots, UNDERSIDE, 
both wings pale ochreous-brown, the bands and spots defined only by prominent black lines 
and silver-streaked centres. Aindwing with the anal lobe bright vermilion, the black silver. 
streaked spots prominent.” 
“ Differs from A. zctis, Hewitson, above in having a dissimilarly-shaped subapical mark. 
Underside also of a different colour. 4. e/ima, Moore, also differs from this in being paler- 
coloured above, of a deeper colour beneath, in having the markings nearly obsolete, and in the 
absence of the red patch on the anal lobe.” (AZoore, |. c.) 
Mr. Moore does not state the sex of the specimens of 4. /unulifera described by him, but 
they were probably males, though he says nothing about the rich deep shining blue colour which 
pervades in certain lights the whole of the hindwing except the costa, and all but the costa as 
far as the median nervure, the apex widely, and the outer margin decreasingly to the anal angle 
(which are black) of the forewing in the male. In Sikkim specimens of the male of this species, 
the small ochreous-red lunule beyond the end of the discoidal cell on the upperside of the fore- 
wing is sometimes present, sometimes very small, and most often entirely absent, these latter 
specimens being A. khkurdanus, Moore. I can further divide these specimens into three 
groups by the coloration and markings of the underside. In the first group, which in so 
far appears to be the typical one, the anal lobe of the hindwing has a prominent bright vermi- 
lion patch, the ground-colour is pale ochreous-brown, and all the markings are prominent. 
