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tlie author of a genus can fix the type of his genus ; if no species is named by 

 the author, then we must take the first species described by him, following the 

 description of the genus, if it corresponds. Wallengren's type and only species of 

 Spindasis is mualikasi, and is congeneric with vulcanus, and therefore his genus 

 must sink to Aphnseu'^, Hiibner. 



Genus APHN.<EUS. 



Aphnsms, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 81 (1816). Hewitson (part), 111, Diurn. Lep. p. 60 (1865). 



Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 105 (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 346 (1890). Leech, 



Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 409 (1893). 

 Cigaritis, Lucus (part), Explor. Alg. Zool. iii. p. 362 (1849). Trimen, South Afr. Butt. ii. p. 146 



(1887). 

 Spindasis, Wallengren, Lep. Rhop. Caffr. in Kong. Sv. vet-Akad. Hand. ii. p. 45 (1857). Distant, 



Rhop. Malayana, p. 242 (1884). 

 Amblypodia, Westwood (part), Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 477 (1852). Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Austr. ii. 



p. 226 (1866). 



Eyes naked. Forewing, vein 12 terminates on the costa opposite the upper end 

 of the cell, 11 emitted from the middle of the cell, is slightly arched towards 12 but 

 does not touch it ; 10 from one-third before the upper end of the cell, 9 from 7 from a 

 short distance beyond the cell end, 7 terminates at the apex of the wing ; middle 

 discocellular much shorter than the lower, both obliquely recurved, no upper 

 discocellular ; vein 6 emitted from close to the upper end of the cell, 5 from 

 the middle, 3 from close to the lower end of the cell, 2 from the middle ; wing 

 triangular, costa slightly arched, apex sub-acute, outer margin convex, more so iu 

 the female than in the male, hinder margin nearly straight. Hindwing, vein 8 

 arched at base, 7 emitted one-fourth before upper end of cell, discocellulars recurved, 

 vein 5 from their middle, 3 from close to lower end of the cell, 2 from the middle ; 

 sub-median nervure straight, internal nervure recurved ; wing conical, costa slightly 

 arched, apex and outer margin rounded to the end of vein 3, somewhat excavated from 

 thence to the outer tail ; abdominal margin long, anal angle lobed ; two tails, at the 

 ends of sub-median vein and vein 2, the inner tail the longer ; body short, somewhat 

 robust, palpi porrect, squamose, second joint long, third short. Antennae with the 

 club long, stout. Flight very rapid, but short, settling with closed wings, fond of 

 damp places, and may sometimes be seen in large numbers sucking up the moisture ; 

 colour on the upperside brown of various shades, on the underside pale yellow of 

 different shades, sometimes tinted with red, with transverse bars of chocolate-red of 

 various shades, sometimes of black. 



Type, Papilio vulcanus, Fabricius. 



