162 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



APHN^US SCHISTACEA. 



Plate 733, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, $ . 



Ajjhneeus schistacea, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 106, pi. 41, figs. 3, ,J ; 3a, 3b, $ (1881). de Nice-s-ille, 



Eutt. of India, iii. p. 352 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 66.5. 

 Aj)}inseus schistaceus, Swinhoe, Pi'oc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 134. 



Imago. —Male. Upperside brown, paler in colour than A. fusca. Forewlng very- 

 variable in markings, sometime.s the orange-red transverse streaks are very few and ill- 

 defined, sometimes towards the upper outer part of the wing they are so broad as to 

 form an orange-red ground colour traversed by brown bands. Hindwing highly tinted 

 with blue (not lilac as in fusca), the disc in certain lights being bright blue in fresh 

 specimens, anal orange-red patch and tails as in fusca. Underside with the ground 

 colour and bands as in fusca, but all the bands are at more even distances apart from 

 each other and are consequently closer together. 



Female. Upperside brown like the male, but with no blue tint or gloss ; markings 

 above and below similar, but the bands on the underside a good deal broader than they 

 are in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ l^V to 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, South India, Chin Hills. 



Distribution. — The types are from Ceylon ; our description and figures are from 

 specimens from Trincomali ; Watson records it from the Chin Hills ; we took it at 

 Satara near Poona, and have received a pair from the Nilgii'i.s. 



APHN^US GABRIEL, nov. 

 Plate 733, figs. 4, <J , 4a, $ , 4b, $ . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brown, beautifully glossed on both wings with blue in 

 certain lights. Forewing with an orange patch in the upper disc, crossed by blackish- 

 brown bands from the costa, across the middle of the cell, and across its end, both 

 outwardly oblique, an erect l)and of two conjoined spots from the costa to the middle 

 of the interspace above vein 3, a smaller spot from the costa, between these last two 

 bands an indistinct sub-marginal baud. Hindwing with the bands of the underside 

 faintly visible, an orange anal patch, containing two small black spots ; tails black, 

 tipped with white ; marginal line of both wings blackish-brown. Cilia pure white. 

 Underside milk-white, bands bright orange-red, with silvery scales down their centres 

 and black linear edgings. Forewing with a sub-costal streak from the base to the first 

 l)and, a brown, wedge-shaped streak from the base to the lower end of the same band, a 

 spot inside the cell, a l)and from the costa across its end, an outwardly oblique band 



