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APHN^US PEGUANUS. 



Plate 735, figs. 1, <?, la, ?, lb, ^. 



Aphnseus peguanus, Moore, Journ. As. See. Bengal, 1884, p. 26. 

 Aphnseus syama, de Niceville (part), Butt, of India, iii. p. 355 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackish-brown, with a blue gloss in certain lights, 

 wings more opaque than in A. syama. Forewing with the costa and outer margin 

 more distinctly black-bordered. Hinchmng more blue, the anal orange patch duller in 

 colour, with a short black marginal line to the anal lobe and between the tails, the 

 anal large black spot absent, represented by a darker shading of the orange colour ; 

 tails black, tipped with white, the orange colour running up the inner tail to a greater 

 extent. Underside pale ochreous-red, bands of a somewhat darker ochreous-red, with 

 silvery inner lining, their disposition much as in A. syama. Forewing with a large 

 space above the middle of the hinder margin pale sulphur-yellow ; the band running 

 across the middle of the cell black at its lower end, with the black colour expanding 

 inwards filling the base of the interspace, the medial and outer band meet hindwards 

 on the sub-median vein, do not stop there, but are continued into the next lower 

 interspace, nearly to the hinder margin. Hindioing with the anal orange patch very 

 little brighter and more orange than the ground colour of the wing, the anal lobe 

 outwardly edged with black, a small black marginal spot between the tails, with a 

 minute silvery dot on its upper side. Antennae black, ringed with white, club with an 

 orange tip, with a white streak beneath ; frons rufous, not brown as in syama ; top of 

 head rufous, body above and below concolorous with the wings, tarsi without black 

 bands, in syama the black bands on the tarsi are distinct and prominent. 



Female, slightly paler on the upperside and duller in colour, the bands of the 

 underside distinctly visible through the wings, otherwise it is similar to the male 

 above and below. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1-j^, ? l-^V inches. 



Habitat. — Burma . 



Distribution. — The type, a male from Pegu, is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta 

 our description and figures are from a male in our collection from Magaki, near Pegu 

 and from a female in the B. M., from the same locality. 



APHNJIUS ORISSANUS. 



Plate 735, figs. 2, ^,2a, ? , 2b, <J . 



Aphnseus orissanus, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 27. 

 Aphnseus syama, de Niceville (part), Butt, of India, iii. p. 355. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brown, with some blue gloss in certain lights, 



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