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larvae viewed uuder the microscope show a remarkable arrangement of star-like, fleshy 

 processes which cover the entire skin so closely as to form a complete net-like coat. 

 The pupae hatch out, in from ten days to several weeks, this depending on the season. 

 (F. C. Fraser.) 



Habitat. — Sind, Kutch, Beluchistan, Afghanistan, N.W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — The types in the B. M. came from Chaman in Afghanistan, taken 

 by us ; Nurse records it from Kutch ; we took it also at Karain, Ghunduk, Quetta, the 

 Hubb river, Hydrabad, Sind, and Karachi ; it is in our collection also from Campbellpur, 

 taken by Yerbury, and Leslie and Evans record it from Chitral. 



APHNJIUS SYAMA. 

 Plate 734, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, <? . 



Amhlypodia syama, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 107 (1829). Westwood in Doubleday and 



Hewitson's Diurn. Lep. p. 479 (18-52). 

 Aphnmus syawa, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 61, pi. 2.5, fig. 7, ^ (1865). Staudinger, Ex. Sehmett. 



p. 274, pi. 95, ^ (1888). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 355 (1890) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. 



Hist. See. 1890, p. 386. Watson, id. 1891, p. 49. Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 529. 



Swinhoe, id. 1893, p. 303. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 410 (1893). H. H. Druce, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 598. 

 Spindasis syama, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 243, pi. 23, figs. 8, 9, 9 (1884). Wood-Mason and 



de NiceviUe, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 369. 

 Aphnmus orissanus, Swinhoe (nee Moore), Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 303. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark blackish-brown, with a violet-purplish gloss in 

 certain lights, with the bands of the underside faintly visible through the winwg. 

 Forewing with the colour darkening towards the outer margin, otherwise it is without 

 any markings. Hindwing a little darker than the forewing, more unifonn in colour, an 

 orange patch at the anal angle, containing a large black spot ia the anal lobe, and two 

 small black spots on the margin in the interspace between the tails, joined together, 

 sometimes, but not always, with some silvery specks upon them ; tails black, tipped with 

 white, the orange colour running for a very short distance up the inner tail. Underside 

 pale sulphur-yellow, bands dark chocolate-brown, all but the sub-marginal bands, 

 inwardly streaked with silvery-white. Forew'mg with a short club-shaped streak from 

 the middle of the base, a broad band from the costa across the middle of the cell to 

 the sub-median vein on which it expands inwards, filling up the basal portion of the 

 interspace, a similarly broad band from the middle of the costa, across the end of the 

 cell, thickening hindwards to the sub-median vein, where it touches the lower end of 

 a thinner even band which runs down from the costa to meet it ; in the space inside 



