170 LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



the bands of tlie underside showing faintly through the wings. Foreicing without 

 markino-s. Hindwing with an anal dull orange patch, about as large as in A. syama, 

 ])ut very much duller in colour ; a large black spot on the anal lobe, which is outwardly 

 lined with black, a white streak on the upper inner side of the spot, two small black 

 spots close together on the margin between the two tails, some silvery specks on all 

 three spots ; tails black, tipped with white, the dull orange colour running a short 

 distance up them. Underside pale oehreous-white, bands orange-red, disposed much 

 as in peguanus, but the middle band of the forewing does not extend below the 

 sub-median vein, the outer band passes it, is well separated from the lower end of the 

 middle band, and in a diffuse form nearly reaches the hinder margin. Ilindivivg with 

 the anal patch not orange, but eoncolorous with the rest of the Aving, a large black spot 

 in the anal lobe with some silvery-white on its upper side, a smaller black spot on the 

 maroin between the tails with some silvery specks on it. Antennae black, ringed with 

 white, club with a dull red tip, with a white s break on its underside ; frons white, with 

 a black middle stripe, top of head whitish ; body above and below eoncolorous with the 

 wings, tarsi without black bands. 



Female, like the male above and below. 



Expanse of wings, $ l^V to lyV> ? lyo to H inches. 



Habitat. — Orissa, Burma. 



The type, a male, is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; we have a co-type from the 

 same locality in our collection, given to us by Dr. Moore and sent by us to deNiceville, 

 to compare with the type, and marked by him as identical, and several examples 

 of both sexes from Ataran, Burma. 



APHNJIUS LILACINUS. 

 Plate 735, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, i . 



AplmsLUS lilacinus, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 28. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 354 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 35. Aitken and Comber, id. 



vol. XV. 1903, p. 49. 

 Aphnseus nestivus, Swinlioe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 428, pi. 40, fig. 1, ? . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brown. Forewing with the basal and discal areas 

 blue, somewhat iridescent blue in certain lights. Hindwing with the basal and inner 

 space similarly blue, an orange-ochreous anal patch, a small black spot in the anal lobe, 

 sometimes another on the margin in the next interspace ; tails black, tipped with white, 

 the orange-ochreous colour running half way up them ; both wings with the outer 

 marginal line blackish-brown. Cilia white. Underside pale brownish-ochreous, bands 

 slightly darker than the ground colour, finely edged with black, with silvery scales 

 down their middle. Forewing with a small sub-basal round ringed spot in the cell, an 

 oval lajger spot in the middle and another at the end, the last joined on its lower side 



