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patch and runs to the middle of the abdominal margin with a dot above its end ; a 

 discal band ending on vein 4, and a submarginal series as in the forewing, its lower 

 portion abruptly bent inwards like the central band ; anal patch orange-red, with the 

 two black spots as above. 



Female. Upperside coloured like the male, but duller. Forewing with an orange 

 patch in the upper disc with two or three blackish-brown spots in it. Underside 

 marked like the male, but the ground colour much darker. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1^- inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. 



Our descriptions and figures are from two males and a female from Sikkim in the 

 B. M. collected by Dudgeon. 



APHNJIUS MAXIMUS. 

 Plate 737, figs. 1, <? , la, ? , lb, 9 . 

 Aphnseus vulcanus, var. maximus, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 637, pi. 43, fig. 5, J . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brown, with a pale blue gloss in certain lights. 

 Forewing with a large dull orange patch in the upper disc, often extending into the 

 cell, a brown bar at the cell end, an outwardly oblique, brown bar across the patch and 

 a short one from the costa, half way between the oblique bar and the apex of the wing. 

 Ilindwing with the abdominal space pale, a dull orange anal patch with two small 

 obscure blackish spots, with a few metallic blue scales on them ; tails black, tipped with 

 white, their bases dull orange. Cilia of both wings blackish-brown, with white tips. 

 Underside ochreous-grey, bands indicated by their brown linear edges, their centres 

 with silvery scales. Foreicing with a spot inside the cell, an irregular, outwardly 

 oblique band from the middle of the costa to near the sub-median vein close to the 

 lower end of the narrow sub-marginal lunular band, a short sub-apical band from the 

 costa, composed of three irregular conjoined spots. Ilindwing with a sub-basal spot 

 above the cell, a medial band, bent somewhat inwards in its middle, acutely elbowed 

 hindwards and running in towards the abdominal margin a third from the anal angle, 

 a series of small sub-marginal lunules ; anal lobe with two small black spots. Antennae 

 black, with white segmental dots on its sides ; frons white, with a grey medial baud ; 

 head and body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female, without the pale blue gloss, otherwise similar to the male above 

 and below. 



Expanse of wings, ^ I5, ? 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Karen Hills. 



There are three males and one female from the Karen Hills in the B. M. ; cur 

 description and figures are from them. 



