174 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1^, $ 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Described and figured from a pair from the Masoki Valley, 6,000 

 feet elevation, that have been compared with de Niceville's types of A. zqfra from the 

 Kulu Valley, and which are identical with Moore's types in the B. M. of A. nipalicus, 

 from Nepal and Sikkim ; there is also a male example of A. rukmini in the B. M. from 

 Sikkim, which has been compared with de Niceville's type from Sikkim, which is also 

 identical with Moore's type (male) of nipalicus ; de Niceville records zaffra also from 

 Masuri, Bhowali, 5,600 feet, Kumaon, Naina Tal, 5,500 feet, Saria Tal, 5,600 feet, and 

 Sal Tal, 4,500 feet, both near Naini Tal. There are also two pairs from the same 

 locality in the B. M. 



-- APHNJIUS SANI. 



Plate 736, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, $ , 3b, $ . 



Aplinseiis sani, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 282, pi. 14, fig. 7, 5 > id. Butt, of India, 

 iii. p. 367, pi. 2.5, fig. 146, ? (1890). Elwea, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 638, pi. 43, fig. 6, ?. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing mostly black, the base and lower discal 

 area iridescent deep blue, a ferruginous spot beyond the discoidal cell, varying in size 

 and distinctness. Hindwing, costal space broadly black, the outer margin with a narrow 

 black band, both bands merging into the iridescent deep blue colour of the rest of the 

 wing, abdominal fold blackish, anal angle ferruginous, a small black spot in the anal 

 lobe ringed with pale indistinct bluish-grey, and a similar spot on the margin between 

 the tails, with some metallic silvery scales on them both ; tails black, tipped with white, 

 with the ferruginous colour running a short distance up them. Underside pale 

 cinnamon, tinted with red. Forewing with the space below the median vein slaty- 

 white ; bands red, with dark margins, an oval mark inside the cell, a bar at the end, an 

 outwardly oblique band of three conjoined pieces from the costa, a little beyond its 

 middle to vein 2, with a blackish narrow short black streak in continuation, the band 

 somewhat irregular in its formation, two long spots one above the other from the costa 

 near the apex to vein 4, and two small spots touching each other from the costa half 

 way between the two bands. Hindwing with two blackish spots at the base with a 

 curved band in continuation down the wins; near the abdominal margin, three longLsh 

 spots close to it, in a line, and well separated from each other ; an outwardly curved 

 band from the middle of the costa, narrowing at its lower part and sharply curving 

 inwards below the end of the basal band, to the abdominal margin, the curve and the 

 lower part of the basal band containing silvery scales ; a discal band from the costa, 

 slightly narrowing hindwards to a little below vein 4, a red anal patch, a large black 

 spot in the anal lobe and a smaller one between the two tails, with one or two silvery 



