Observed in a tour through India and. Ceylon. 83 



pyranthe was represented by a male of the typical and 

 a female of the gnoma form. 



Together with the above were several smaller things : 

 among the Blues Polyommatus bseticus occurred, while 

 Catochrysops strabo, Fab., and the tiny Chilades putli, Koll., 

 were both common. The Skipper Parnara mathias, Fab., 

 was also common, and I took one Telicota augias, L. The 

 little Pyrale, Hymcnia rceurvalis, was in some numbers in 

 one small flower-bed. Of the long-waisted wasp, Eumcncs 

 esuriens, F., I saw but one $ . 



APHN^EUS EMMA, Moore. 

 Enlarged from sketches from the living butterfly. 



Head 



Apex of f:W. 



ff.W. In close apposition 



Longitudinal fold 

 in HW. . 



Anterior tails 

 Everted anal lobe 



Posterior tails 



Longitudinal 

 fold in H*{ 



Apex ofF.w. 



■ HW in close apposition 



. Anterior tails 

 ■Posterior talis 



■ Everted anal lobe 



Diagrammatic view Diagrammatic view 



from above. from behind. 



Drawn at Benares, November 30th, 1903, by G. B. Lonoktatf. 



But among the frequenters of the small garden adjoin- 

 ing the hotel those that interested me most were the 

 "lobed" and "tailed" Lycsenids, of which there were no 

 less than four species. Of Aphnssus ictis, Hew., I took 

 but one, a male, of A. elima, Moore (which, however, De 

 Niceville considered to be only a dry-season form of ictis), 

 I secured two, also males. Of the third species, Pratapa 

 deva, Moore, I took but one, and that had lost the anal 

 angles, with their appendages, and a large part of both 

 hind-wings, which had apparently been bitten off, abso- 

 lutely symmetrically, by a lizard. The fourth species, 

 Rapala melampus, Cramer, was common, and I secured 

 seven specimens, all, however, males. 



