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scales on them ; both wings with submarginal band on the forewing ending on vein 2, 

 with some blackish in continuation ; on the hind wing this baud is slightly curved, ends 

 hindwards in the red anal patch, and upwards it narrows to the costa, and in each wing 

 there is a series of black lunules close to the outer margin. Autennse black, with white 

 segmental dots, club with a red tip ; frons black, with a white stripe, with some red on it, 

 on each side ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings, abdomen with 

 white segmental stripes in the sides, legs striped with black, tarsi with black bands. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing nearly all black, a ferruginous patch, varying in 

 size, but much brighter than in the male, beyond the end of the cell, the basal and 

 outer two-thirds of the lower area plumbeous-silvery. Hindwimj plumbeous, somewhat 

 dull in colour, an outer marginal narrow black band, anal patch and black spots, and 

 the colour and markings of the underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ lj-%, $ I5 inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. 



Described and figured from a pair from Sikkim in coll. Druce, which have been 

 compared with de Niceville's types in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; there are also 

 four males and one female from Sikkim in the B. M. The bands on the underside are 

 disposed much as in A. Jiipalicus, but the ground colour and the colour of the bands 

 are quite difterent. 



APHNJIUS RUKMINI. 

 Plate 736, figs. 4, <J , 4a, ? , 4b, $ . 



Aphnseus ruhnini, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 282, pi. 14, fig. 8, ,J ; id. Butt, of 

 India, iii. p. 370, pi. 25, fig. 147, <? (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside greyish-blue. Forewing with the costa and outer 

 margin very broadly blackish-brown, the two colours merging more or less into each 

 other. Hindwing with the costal and abdominal space pale, the blue colour covering 

 the rest of the wing, anal patch orange with two black spots, the anal spot the largest, 

 both touched with metallic blue scales ; tails black, tipped with white, their basal 

 portions orange. Underside whitish-ochreous, tinted very slightly with pinkish, bands 

 thin, slightly darker than the ground colour, with silvery scales and linear black edgings. 

 Forewing with a spot in the cell, a dislocated bar at the end which extends to the 

 costa ; a band, commencing with a spot on the middle of the costa, continued a little 

 inwards, and running towards the hinder angle, ending a little above the submedian 

 vein, two small spots from the costa, close beyond, a small, but longer spot near the 

 costa before the apex with another some little distance below it, a submarginal 

 line, and a series of indistinct lunular marks close to the margin. Hindwing with two 

 sub-basal small spots, a medial band, which bends abruptly inwards above the anal 



