168 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



these bands are two sliort bands from the costa, each composed of two oval spots 

 running into each other, both bauds well separated from each other and from the 

 other bands, the first much the shortest, stopping a little below vein 5, the other 

 somewhat thicker and longer, extending into the middle of the interspace above 

 vein 3. Ilindwing with five bands, the first close to the base, commencing with two 

 well separated spots, and continued by a long thick irregular-shaped streak which runs 

 down close to the abdominal margin, curves outwards at its lower end and stops 

 at the sub-median nervure below the lower end of the second band which is composed 

 of three more or less conjoined spots and a fourth well separated spot, all in a straight 

 line from the costa, a medial nearly straight band from the costa to the orange anal 

 patch, a nearly straight discal band from the costa to the middle of the second median 

 interspace, the fifth band from the orange anal patch, where it nearly touches the 

 lower end of the third band, much attenuated upwards, running close to the sub-marginal 

 band ; the anal orange patch larger than it is on the upperside, with some silvery 

 specks in its middle, the spots as above, with silvery inner edging ; both wings 

 with a fine and even sub-marginal band and black marginal line. Antennse black, 

 ringed with white ; frons with a white line on each side ; palpi brown, white beneath ; 

 liead and body above and below concolorous with the wings, abdomen with whitish 

 lateral segmental stripes, tarsi with black bands. 



Female. Upperside violet-brown, much paler than the male, the bands of the 

 underside much more visible through the wdngs, the anal orange patch more extensive. 

 Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wdngs, $ $ 1^ to lyo inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, Philippines, 

 China. 



Distribution. — The type is from Java, Leech records it from China, H. H. Druce 

 from Labuan in Borneo, Distant from the Malay Peninsula, Watson from Chin Lushai, 

 Manders from the Shan States ; we have it from Thyetmyo and Sikkim, and have 

 received many examples from the Khasia Hills. 



Note. — de Niceville says the two forms next following, A. peguanus, Moore, and 

 ^1. orissanus, Moore, are merely varietal forms of A. syama, and that all these forms 

 with many intergrades are common in the Khasia Hills ; we have not found this to be 

 the case, out of the numerous examples of Aphnseus we have received during the past 

 ten years from that locality from the Rev. AValter Hamilton and from our native 

 collector, we have received many typical syama, but no really typical orissanus nor 

 peguanus ; syama no doubt does vary somewhat, but so do nearly all species ; but 

 typical orissanus and peguanus are so very different to syama, and the frons of each 

 are so different, we feel that, notwithstanding de Niceville's remarks, we are obliged 

 to keep them as distinct forms. 



