178 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Female. Above and below very similar to the male, but tlie anal patcb on both 

 sides is bright orange-red, and the anal spots larger. Antennas black, with white 

 segmental dots at the sides ; head and body above and below concolorous Avith 

 the wings. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1-^q inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2c, $, 2d, ?, 2e, ^), 



Male. Upperside similar to the upperside of the Wet-season form, red-brown, the 

 hinder marginal space of the forewing grey. Underside, the bands on both wings 

 indicated by their darker edgings, disposed exactly as in the other form. 



Female, with the orange patch on the forewing very large, with three brown 

 spots in it, in a triangular form, the anal orange patch is dull in colour. Underside as 

 in its own male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? l/^- to Ijq- inches. 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Throughout India and Ceylon a very common species. "We have 

 many examples from different localities ; we took many examples of both forms in 

 Mhow and Poona, and it has been recorded as far north as Chitral. Ilewitson's type 

 in the B. M. is marked Northern India, and is a female, and not a male as stated 

 by him. 



APHNJltJS LUNULIFERA. 

 Plate 737, figs, 3, <? , 3a, ? , 3b, <J , 



Aphneeus lunuU/era, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 140. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 363 



(1890). 

 Aphnseus khurdanus, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 26. de Niceville, l.c, p. 362 (1890). 

 Spindasia khtrdana, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soo. Bengal, 1885, p. 48. 

 Aphnseus nuhilus, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 530, pi. 210, figs. 1, lb, c?i la, 9 (1887). de Niceville, 



Butt, of India, ui. p. 363 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark blackish-browu, with purplish reflections in 

 certain lights. Foreicing with a faintly indicated orange spot in the upper disc, 

 Hindwing with a dark orange-red anal patch with two large black spots flecked with 

 a few metallic blue scales ; tails black, tipped with white, their bases orange-red. 

 Underside dark, sordid rufous-grey, bands broad and distinct, a little darker than the 

 ground colour, containing some silveiy scales and with distinct black linear edgings, 

 disposed exactly as in ^-1. ictis, but on the forewing there is a distinct sub-marginal 

 band, more or less macular in some examples, and a series of dark luuules close to the 

 margin, neither being even indicated in any examples of ictis. 



