60 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



Genus APHN^IUS. 



AphnjEus, Hiibner, Horsfield b$ Moore. 

 Amblypodia, Westwood. 

 Spindasis, Wallengren. 



Aphnceus contains a very natural group of butterflies, somewhat difficult to define, 

 however, as it approaches the Cape species of Zeritis. The eyes are smooth. The 

 palpi are erect, embracing the head, covered with scales, the terminal joint short. 

 The antenna? are short, becoming gradually thicker towards the joint, the club nearly 

 half their length. The subcostal nervure has three joints, except in Orcas, which has 

 a fourth. I have adopted Horsfield's species, and, having done so, have found it 

 necessary to make another, A. Ictis, having some of the characters of both. The short 

 bands of the anterior wing, the third and fourth from the base, are uncertain in their 

 position and their length. 



With four branches from the subcostal nervure. 



1. Aphnseus Orcas. 



d . Papilio Orcas, Drury, vol. iii. pi. 34. f. 2, 3. 

 Polyommatus Orcas, Oodart, End. Meth. p. 645. 

 d . Hesperia Pindarus, Fabrieius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 262. Donovan, Insects of India, pi. 38. f. 2. 



Female. Upperside uniform dark brown. Anterior wing with a pale yellow spot at the 

 end of the cell. 



Underside rufous-yellow : the spots silver- white bordered by red-brown. 

 In the Hope Collection of the University of Oxford, from Sierra Leone. 



The only example of this very beautiful species which I have seen is in the Hope Museum 

 at Oxford, and has been generously lent to me by Professor Westwood. I am sorry that 

 I did not know of its existence in time to give it a place upon the plate, since it is a female, 

 the males only having been figured by Drury and Donovan. It is from Sierra Leone, and I do not 

 believe that this species is an inhabitant of the East at all. The insects in the British and East- 

 India Museums, from [ndia, which have been catalogued by Doubleday, by Horsfield and Moore, 

 and referred to by Westwood in the ' Genera ' as representatives of this species, Pindarus 

 of Fabrieius and Donovan, are all referable to A. Lohita of Horsfield, and do not differ from it. 



