172 LEPIBOFTERA INBICA. 



very indistinct small spots. Hindwing with a medial straight band which abruptly 

 l^ends inwards above the anal lobe and runs to the abdominal margin, and has another 

 similar short line above it, a discal very thin band which is irregularly outwardly 

 curved. Marginal line of both wings grey. Antennae black, with white segmental 

 dots at its sides ; frons orange-grey, top of head rufous-orange ; body above and below 

 concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside paler than in the male and more violet in colour, some 

 blackish suffusion on the costa, apical and outer marginal band narrow and inwardly 

 diffuse, a blackish bar at the end of the cell. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ 1^^, ? 1^0 inches. 



Habitat. — Nilgiri Hills. 



The description and figures are from the unique type male and Hampson's female, 

 both in the B. M. '^^ 



APHNJIUS QREENI. 

 Plate 736, figs. 1, ^, la, $. 

 Spindasis greeni, Heron, Ann. Mag. Nat. BHst. 1896, p. 190. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale lilac-grey. Forewing with the basal half, limited 

 Ijy the sub-costal vein, pale blue ; a grey thin bar at the end of the cell. Hindn-ing 

 with the costal and abdominal portions paler than the rest of the wing, no markings, 

 tails broken. Cilia of both wings white, with its base brown. Underside pale grey 

 with a pinkish-ochreous tint, markings indicated by their fine greyish-brown edgings. 

 Forewing with a bar in the cell and another at the end ; a discal band composed of a 

 spot close to the costa, a bar pushed a little outwards and another a little still more 

 outwards, terminating on vein 2, two small spots, the lower inwards, below the costa, a 

 fifth from the apex. Hindwing with a bar in the cell, another at its end, one above it, 

 another below it, and two small ones near the apex, all very indistinct. Antennae 

 rufous, with white segmental specks at the sides ; palpi above rufous, white beneath ; 

 frons and top of head pale grey ; body above and below concolorous with the wings, legs 

 grey, without markings. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1^ inches. '\ 



Habitat. — Pundoloya, Ceylon. 



Described and figured from the unique type in the B. M. 



APHN.ffiUS NIPALICUS. 



Plate 736, figs. 2, ^, 2a, ? , 2b, <? . 



Aphnseus nijpalicus, Moore, Journ. As. See. Bengal, 1884, p. 27. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 

 p. 366 (1890). 



