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to a curiously shaped larger spot, of a jagged spear-sliape with a small nodule attached 

 to its lower end, then four round ringed spots near the costa in an irregular triangular 

 form, the outer two the larger, a sub-marginal chain-like macular band from near the 

 costa, broadening gradually hindwards to vein 2, with a black suffused continuation to 

 near the hinder margin, a line of black lunules close to the margin which has a 

 blackish line. Hind whig with three sub-basal ringed spots in a line, well separated 

 from each other, a medial nearly straight band of four conjoined longish and squarish 

 spots, and a discal band of three similar spots, the sub-marginal band and marginal 

 markings as in the forewing, but narrower and not so well pronounced. 



Female. Upperside dull brown, larger than the male, the wings broader, the 

 outer margin more convex, otherwise both above and below it is similar. 



Expanse of wings, $ lyV to 1-i*q, $ ly-Q to 1-^% inches. 



Habitat. — Malda, Mhow. 



Distribution. — The type male in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, is without locality ; 

 the type oi sestivus, of which only the lower half remains in the B. M., was taken by 

 us at Mhow ; we possess another example from the same locality ; there is also a 

 fragment of a male example in coll. Druce ; there is a female from Rajbangha in coll. 

 Druce ; de Niceville states that he received a fine series from Irvine from Bolahat in 

 the Malda district. Our descriptions and figures are from a pair from Malda in 

 the B. M. 



APHNJIUS ABNORMIS. 

 Plate 735, figs. 4, $ , 4a, ? , 4b, 9 . 



Aphnxus ohnorviis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. ^i^, pi. 49, fig. i, $ . de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, iii. p. 355 (1890). 

 ApJinxus {S2.indasis) ahnormis, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 359. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dull greyish-violet, with some violet gloss in certain 

 lights. Forewing with the costa above the sub-costal vein and the apical space 

 broadly, blackish-brown, this colour continued down the outer margin and ending 

 narrowly at the hinder angle. Ilindiving with the abdominal space pale grey, almost 

 whitish, the base and outer parts of the wing smeared with dark grey, anal 

 patch dull greyish-orange, no spots visible ; tails short, dull orange, tipped with 

 white and edged with black. Cilia black, with white tips. Underside greyish- 

 ochreous, bands very narrow, indicated by their ochreous-brown linear edgings, their 

 centres with silvery scales. Furewing with a dot in the cell, a bar across the end, 

 extending to the costa, a band from the middle of the costa to the middle of 

 the interno-median interspace, almost touching the lower end of a very indistinct 

 sub-marginal luuular series, a sub-apical band from the costa of two pairs oi 



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