LYCANIDA. HYPOLYCAINA. 391 
Jemale (1866) ; id., Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. xlix; pt. 2, p. 232, n. 44 (1880); id., 
Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 30 (1884); id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 255, n. 1, pl. xx, figs. 5, 
male; 6, female (1885); id., Staudinger, Ex. Schmett., p. 282, pl. xcvi, male (1888); A. evilus, Snellen, Tijd. 
voor Ent., vol. xxi, p. 23, n. 95 (1878); H. andamana, Moore, Proc. Zool, Soc. Lond., 1877, p: 589; idem, 
id., Journ. A. S. B,, vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 31 (1884). 
HapitaT: Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Andaman Isles, Nias Island, 
Java, Borneo, Celebes, Malacca, Waigiou, Morty. 
EXPANSE: ¢@, 2, 1°17 to1’70 inches, 
DESCRIPTION : “‘MALE. UPPERSIDE, loth wings brown, more saturated than in the female, 
and covered with a very rich cyaneous blue lustre which disappears almost entirely in 
a certain direction to the light ; a narrow border in both wings and a large discoidal spot 
in the forewing always preserve the original ground-colour inclining to blackish. UNDER- 
SIDE, 40th wings silvery-gray with a faint glaucous cast; on the disc standsa short double 
reddish-yellow litura; behind this follows a more distinct and saturated common band of 
the same colour, narrowly edged on both sides with brilliant snow-white lines, nearly straight, 
with an oblique outward tendency in the forewing, but slightly interrupted and flexuose in 
the hindwing; then an angular mark resembling the letter V standing at the curve in 
the anal region, from which a detached line passes obliquely to the inner margin, having 
a fainter line parallel to it at the extreme boundary ; between this band and the extreme 
margin passes a connected series of obsolete brown marks which is complete in the fore- 
wing and subdimidial in the hindwing, being followed in the anal region by two very large 
black circular ocelli separated by an intermediate oblong group of white dots, which are 
crowded more distinct and brilliant in an attenuated transverse streak adjoining the interior 
ocellus ; the latter occupies the anal appendage itself, and is bordered internally by a narrow 
white arc, while the exterior ocellus is surrounded by a very large orange lunule ; posteriorly 
both ocelli are bordered by a brilliant white waving marginal line, exterior to which is 
a black thread and gray cilia. Body brown above, hoary underneath, addomen marked laterally 
with white bands. <Axtexne brown witha ferruginous tip, and delicate white bands along 
the filiform basal portion. Ayes covered witha delicate ferruginous down and edged pos- 
teriorly with white. Zegs covered with a white down and marked with black bands. 
FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings brown, but the tint is without the blue lustre of the male, 
and is slightly clouded with grayish-brown ; a saturated brown band passes a little behind 
the disc through both wings, being flexuose in the Aixdwing, and accompanied in the anal 
region by a subdimidial arched band consisting of a series of confluent broad white spots ; 
behind this a very faint narrow band passes ina curve across the whole wing, and close to 
the margin is a somewhat more distinct row of spots originating at a small distance from the 
outer apical angle enclosed by two delicate white strigze, being continued in the anal region 
by two very large deep black ocelli, encircled by white rings, while a fainter ferruginous spot 
covers the anal appendage ; the latter also appears in the male, and a brilliant white marginal 
thread winds in both sexes along the anal region, exterior to whichis a black marginal thread, 
while the wings are uniformly terminated bya grayish cz/éa.” UNDERSIDE, doth wings as in the 
male. (Hors/ield, |. c.) 
Hewitson describes a ‘‘ Var. Female of smaller size, the forewing paler, crossed at the 
middle by a transverse band of dark brown, followed bya similar band of obscure white 
spots. Hindwing with a submarginal band of three white spots.”’ (Hew2tson,1.c.) The 
markings of both sexes are, as far as I know, particularly constant in this species. I have 
never seen a variety at all approaching the one described above, which is said to occur at 
Waigiou, Malacca, Sarawak, Celebes, and Morty, 
Wherever it occurs, 4, exy/us is a very common species, the males predominating, owing 
probably to their habit of settling on damp spots to suck up the moisture. It has also a 
very wide range, from Sikkim to Upper Assam, thence southwards throughout Burma to the 
Malay Peninsula, and it occurs in many of the Islands of the Malay Archipelago, Mr Moore 
