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Key to the forms of Azanus. 



A. Underside fore wing, rf $ : a black spot in middle 



of cell .................................. A. jesous, p. 363. 



13. Underside fore wing, c? $ : no black spot in 



middle of cell. 



a. Underside : greyish brown ; hind wing : a 



conspicuous, transverse, subbasal series of 



four black spots ........................ A. ubuldus, p. 302. 



b. Underside : greyish white ; hind wing : with- 



out, or with only a slight trace of subbasal 



series of black spots ...................... A. uranus, p. 363. 



725. Azanus ubaldus (PI. XIX, fig. 138), Cramer (Papilio), Pap. 

 Exot. iv, 1782, p. 209, pi. 390, figs. L, M, d ; Moore, P. Z. ~S. 

 1882, p. 245 ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 123. 

 Lycama zena, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 505, pi. 31, fig. 9 $ : Butler 

 (Azanus), P. Z. S. 1884, p. 483. 



^ . Upperside : brownish purple, dark blue at base of wings. 

 Tore wing : costa very narrowly along its apical half, terinen 

 evenly and a little more broadly from apex to tornus, edged with 

 brown ; the area on the disc, in the cell and beyond it is covered 

 with hair-like specialized scales and is distinctly darker. Hind 

 wing : similar, the brown edging to the costa much broader ; 

 posteriorly in the tornal area there is a dark spot in interspace 1 

 and another more clearly -defined similar spot in interspace 2, 

 both spots merged more or less into the terminal brown edging. 

 Cilia of both fore and hind wings white, with their basal halves 

 evenly dark brown. Underside: greyish brown. Eorewing: two 

 short white lines, one each side of the discocellulars ; a minute 

 black subcostal dot above apex of cell, another similar dot a little 

 beyond it; two parallel, obliquely-placed, transverse, upper discal 

 white lines, followed by an inner and an outer obliquely-placed, 

 irregular, broken, subterminal line also white, the inner one some- 

 what Junular, and an anticiliary dark line ; the posterior third 

 from base of the wing uniform, somewhat paler than the rest. 

 Hind wing: the following black white-encircled spots conspicuous: 

 4 subbasal spots in transverse order, a subcostal spot in middle of 

 interspace 7, two minute geminate spots at the tornal angle, and 

 a larger one in interspace 2 ; two transverse short white lines on 

 either side of the discocellulars as on the fore wing ; a transverse, 

 curved, catenulated, discal baud of white markings, followed by a 

 postdiscal and subterminal series of white lunules and an anti- 

 ciliary dark line edged inwardly with white. Antennae dark 

 brown, the shafts ringed with white; apex of club also white; head, 

 thorax and abdomen dark brown, the thorax in fresh specimens 

 with a little purplish-blue pubescence ; beneath : palpi, thorax and 

 abdomen white. $ . Upperside : rich silky brown. Fore and 

 hind wings : suffused with purplish blue at base, and with anti- 

 ciliary black lines. Hind wing : with two black spots at tornal 



