APEN^IN^. 177 



APHNJIUS ICTIS. 



Plate 737, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, 9 , 2b, i (Wet-season Brood), 2c, <J , 2d, $ , 2e, $ (Dry-season Brood) = 



elima, Moore. 



Aplmseus ictis, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 61, pi. 25, figs. 8, 9, 9 (1865). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1874, p. 272; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 107 (1881). Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 134, and 



1886, p. 428. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 361 (1890). Mackinnon and de Niceville, 



Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 386. Nurse, id. 1899, p. 512. de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, 



p. 489. Leslie and Evans, id. 1903, p. 675. 

 Spindasis ictis, var. Ceylanica, Felder, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xviii. p. 281 (1868). 

 Aphnaeits elima, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 51 ; id, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 251. Butler, 



id. 1883, p. 147. Swinhoe, id. 1885, p. 134, and 1886, p. 428. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 364 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 35. Mackinnon and de Niceville, 



id. 1898, p. 386. de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, p. 489, and 1905, p. 720. 

 Apltnxus (Spindasis) elima, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 359. 

 Aphnseus trifurcala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 251. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 362 



(1890). Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 182. 

 Spindasis trifurcata, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 48. 

 Aphnseus (Spindasis) trifurcata, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 359. 

 Aphnseus uniformis, Moore, Proc. Zcol. Soc. 1882, p. 251. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 364 



(1890). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, $, 2a, ?, 2b, $). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brown, witli a purpbsh reflection in certain bgbts. 

 Forewing with a somewhat triangular-shaped orange patch in the upper disc, variable 

 in size in different examples, with two short blackish bars in it, the inner the shorter, 

 where the orange space runs sufiiciently inwards there is another bar outwardly oblique 

 right aci'oss its inner side. Hindwing with the abdominal space broadly rufous-grey, 

 the anal patch dull greyish-orange, with two somewhat obscure blackish small spots ; 

 tails black, tipped with white, their bases orange. Marginal line of both wings blackish- 

 brown. Cilia white. Underside pale, dull ochreous-grey, bands pale ochreous-brown, 

 all with some silvery scales down their centres, some of the bands of the forewings 

 with dark linear edgings. Foreioing with a small spot in the cell, a bar across the end 

 extending to the costa, a band from the middle of the costa, outwardly oblique to the 

 sub-median vein to near the hinder angle where it is somewhat close to the narrow 

 sub-marginal band, two short bands from the costa between them, the inner one the 

 shorter. Hindwing with an obscure basal band which runs close down the abdominal 

 margin, ante-medial, medial, and post-medial bands from the costa, the two outer ones 

 abruptly curved inwards above the anal patch to the abdominal margin, the post- 

 medial band extending only to vein 4, and a sub-marginal band, all these bands 

 somewhat obscure ; anal patch slightly paler than the rest of the wing. 



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