366 LYCANID#. APHNAUS. 
‘‘The type is unique in the collection of Mr. Otto Moller. The species is nearly allied 
to A. ntpalicus, Moore, which also occurs in Sikkim, from which the male does not differ 
on the upperside, but may be known on the underside by having none of the spots and bands 
of the forewing traversed by a silvery line.” (de Wicéville, 1. c.) 
The figure shews both sides of the male type specimen from Sikkim in the collection of 
Mr. Otto Moller. The coloration of the underside is of a much richer and darker shade than 
shewn in the figure. 
922, Aphnaus nipalicus, Moore. 
A. nipalicus, Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 27 (1884). 
HABITAT: Nepal, Sikkim. 
EXPANSE: &, 1°50; 9, 1°37 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : ‘‘ MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings dusky violet-brown, the lower basal 
and discal areas dark slatey-blue. Aindwing with the anal lobe red, the black spots speckled 
with silvery-white scales. UNDERSIDE, oth wings dull sulphur-yellow, the bands of a slightly 
darker somewhat purpurascent-yellow. Forewing with an oblique oval black ring near the base 
of the cell; a black-lined bar across the middle of the cell from the costal edge ; an oblique 
discal band from the costal edge, broken, but not disconnected, at the lower end of the cell; a 
short upper discal bar ; and two shorter subapical bars beyond [ ? in one straight line] ; a 
submarginal band and a slender broken lunular marginal line ; all but the last traversed by 
an extremely slight silvery line; beneath the cell is a dusky brown fascia, and a dusky streak 
also is at the end of the submarginal band. Aindwing with a small spot at the base of 
the cell, three transverse subbasal oval black rings, a transverse medial band, broken at 
the lower end, then bent upwards to the abdominal margin, and ending in a small ring-spot, and 
an outer discal upper band, a narrower submarginal band broken above the anal angle and 
bent upwards, all traversed by an extremely slight silvery line; anal lobe-spots large, 
black, surmounted by bright scarlet. FrMALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings paler dusky 
olive-brown. Forewing with a subapical darker spot bordered on each side by red, the basal 
area below the cell slatey-grey. Mindwing with the lower basal area slatey-grey, anal lobe 
as in the male. UNDERSIDE, doth wings as in the male.” 
** Nearest allied to 4. lunulifera, Moore.” (Moore, 1. c.) 
Ihave not seen this species. It is evidently very close to 4. rukma, mihi, but in the latter 
in the male the ground-colour is bright yellow, none of the bands on the forewing are traversed 
by silvery lines, and in the hindwing there are two black spots at the base, one above the 
other. In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, is a female specimen from Sikkim, which Mr. Moore 
has identified as A. mipalicus, but it can be at once distinguished from that species by the 
absence of the silvery lines in the bands on the underside; the specimen is, in fact, my 4. sani. 
923. Aphnous zaffra, n. sp. (PLATE XXVIII, Fic. 217 9). 
HABITAT : Western Himalayas. 
EXPANSE: 6, 2, 1°4 to 1°7 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings black. Forewing with all but the costa 
and outer margin narrowly rich iridescent sapphire-blue, usually with a small elongated orange 
spot beyond the discoidal cell in the second discoidal interspace. Hindwing almost entirely 
suffused with blue in certain lights as in the forewing, a rather small ochreous anal lobe, 
marked with two small black spots irrorated with silvery scales ; ¢ai/s black, tipped with 
white. UNDERSIDE, 4o/h wings pale primrose-yellow, the bands and spots of the colour of 
the ground, being simply defined by narrow black lines, and bearing a medial narrow more 
or less obsolete silvery line. Forewing with a fine short black line at the base of the cell 
touching the subcostal nervure, a ring-spot beyond, a short bar from near the costa crossing 
the middle of the cell to the median nervure, an oblique discal band, obsolete posteriorly, 
