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A};linseus ruJcmini, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 281, pi. 14, fig. 6, ^ ; id. Butt, of 



India, iii. p. 365, pi. 25, fig. 145, ^ (1890). 

 Aphnseus zaffra, de Niceville, I.e. p. 366, pi. 28, fig. 217, ? (1890). Mackinnon and de Niceville, 



Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 386. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black. Forewi7ig with all but the costa and outer 

 margin suiTused with blue, rich iridescent sapphire-blue in certain lights, the costa 

 and outer margin left somewhat narrowly black, the blue colour merging into the black, 

 sometimes a small elongated orange spot beyond the cell, sometimes without it. Hind- 

 wing almost entirely suffused with blue, iridescent in certain lights as in the forewing, 

 an anal ochreous patch of moderate size, a small black spot in the anal lobe, a very 

 small one between the two tails, with one or two silvery scales on them ; tails black, 

 tipped with white, the orange colour running up them a little, marginal line of both 

 wings black. Cilia white, tipped with black on the anal lobe. Underside sordid white, 

 tinged with yellow, bands not darker than the ground colour, but plainly indicated by 

 their blackish-brown linings, and with more or less obsolete silvery markings inside 

 them. Forewing with an oval spot inside the cell, a bar at the end, produced a little 

 upwards in an irregular form ; an outwardly oblique band of four conjoined pieces from 

 the costa to the centre of the interno-median interspace, the first and last piece small, 

 the band somewhat irregular in form, followed by two conjoined small spots between 

 the costa and two well separated larger spots beyond ; a submarginal band, its inner 

 lining lunular, some black marks close to the margin. Hindwirig with two basal spots, 

 a curved band near the abdominal margin, three well separated spots in a line and 

 a nearly straight band from the middle of the costa to a little above the orange anal 

 patch, where it abruptly turns round and joins the curved band which runs near the 

 abdominal margin ; a discal band from the costa to a little below vein 4, slightly 

 dislocated at its upper end, a sub-marginal band, commencing in a disjointed and 

 narrow form near the costa, broadening hindwards, then in a curved line above the anal 

 orange patch and running a little upwards to near the abdominal margin ; the anal 

 patch is orange on its upper part and white hindwards, a rather large black spot on the 

 anal lobe, a smaller one between the two tails, a series of pale blackish lunules close to 

 the outer margin, marginal line of both wings black. Antennae black, with white dots on 

 the sides, club tipped with orange ; frons black, with a white band on each side ; head 

 and body above and below concolorous wdth the wings, legs with black marks on them. 

 Female. Upperside. Forewing black, the interno-median interspace from the 

 base to near the outer margin and the base of the interspace above rich iridescent 

 blue, of a paler and brighter blue than in the male, the orange patch beyond the cell 

 large, with two black spots in it. Hindwing with the base and disc also suffused with 

 iridescent blue of a darker shade than it is in the forewing, anal markings and 

 underside as in the male. 



