Observed in a tour through India and Ceylon. 85 
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 bexticus occurred, whiie 
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, Hymenia recurvalis, was in some numbers in 
one small flower-bed. Of the long-waisted wasp, Humenes 
esurvens, F., I saw but one 2. 
APHNAUS ELIMA, Moore. 
Enlarged from sketches from the living butterfly. 
Apex of Fw. 
sees HW. in close apposition 
LIEW Se oy ee oe Longitudinal Lie nae 
ys nterror tails 
Anterior Faifs_..... ‘ fold in Leta oe 
Fverted anal lobe. ; a ape OSEETTO’ tails 
~--..Everfed anal lobe 
Posterior tails ....... 
Diagrammatic view Diagrammatic view 
from above. from behind. 
Drawn at Benares, November 30th, 1903, by G. B. LONGSTAFF. 
But among the frequenters of the small garden adjoin- 
ing the hotel] those that interested me most were the 
“lobed” and “tailed” Lyczenids, of which there were no 
less than four species. Of Aphnexus ictis, Hew., I took 
but one, a male, of A. elima, Moore (which, however, De 
Nicéville considered to be only a dry-season form of ictzs), 
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. 
