APHN^US. 61 



With three branches from the subcostal nervure. 



2. Aphnseus Etolus. Plate XXV. <j figs. 3, 4. 

 Papilio Etolus, Cramer, pi. 208. f. E, F. (1782). 



Papilio Vulcanus, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 66 (17S7). Donovan, Insects of India, pi. 38. f. 3. 



Hiibner, Sainrnl. Ex. Schm. 

 Polyommatus Vulcanus, Godart, Enc. Meth. p. 644. 

 Amblypodia Vulcanus, Westwood in Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 479. 

 Aphnseus Etolus, Horsfield fy Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. Mus. p. 38. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from India and Ceylon. 



The beautiful variety represented by figure 4 is from the Collection of Dr. Boisduval. 



3. Aphnseus Syama. Plate XXV. 6 fig. 7. 



Amblypodia Syama, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. Mas. p. 107. Westwood in Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 478. 

 Aphnseus Syama, Horsfield Sf Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. Mas. p. 38. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from the Philippine Islands. 



4. Aphnseus Lohita. Plate XXV. figs. 10, 11. 



Amblypodia Lohita, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. Mus. p. 106. Westwood in Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 478. 

 Aphnseus Lohita, Horsfield fy Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. Mus. p. 38. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from India and Sumatra. 



This is the species which in the Collections of the British Museum and East India Company 

 has been named Pindarus, to which it has but little resemblance. 



5. Aphnseus Ictis, Hewitson. Plate XXV. figs. 8, 9. 



Upperside. Male. — Rufous-brown. Anterior wing with a large central orange space : a 

 spot in the cell, an oblique transverse band in the middle, a single spot near the costal margin 

 followed by a short band of two spots, and an oblique band (which borders the brown of the 

 outer margin and forms a triangle with the central band) all dark brown. Posterior wing 

 with the space between and above the black spots near the tails orange. 



Underside orange-yellow, with the transverse bands rufous bordered narrowly with rufous- 

 brown, traversed by spots and lines of gold : the submarginal band composed of minute brown 

 spots. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Northern India. 



A variety of this species has the orange space on the upperside of the anterior wing much 

 smaller than that of the figure, and in the form of a triangle. 



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