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Female. Upperside paler than in the male. Forew'mg with an orange patch, 

 varying in size, in the upper disc, with three rather large brown spots in it, in a 

 triangular form. Hindwing with the anal patch and black spots as in the male. 

 Underside paler than in the male, markings similar. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ \^^ to 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon. 



DiSTRiBTJTioisr. — The type is from Darjiling, the type of khurdanus from Calcutta, 

 and the type of nubilus from Ceylon. We cannot separate these three forms ; we have 

 examples from Sikkim, and we took examples at Poona and at Whangi near Bombay ; 

 they all correspond with the types of all three forms ; de Niceville suggests that they 

 are varietal forms of ictis. 



APHNJIUS LOHITA. 

 Plate 738, figs. 1, ^ , la, ^ , lb, $ , Ic, larva and pupa. 



Amhlypodia luMta, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 106 (1829). Westwood in Doubleday and 



Hewitson's Diurn. Lep. p. 479 (1852). 

 Aphnseus lohita, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 61, pi. 25, figs. 10, 11 (1865). Butler, Trans. Linn. 



Soc. Zool. Lond. 1877, p. 549. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 357 (1890). Manders, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 529. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 49, and 1897, p. 665. 



Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 410 (1893). Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. 1896, p. 386, 



pi. 5, figs. 3, 3a (larva and pupa). Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 386. Aitken and 



Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 49. 

 Spindasis lohita, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 127. Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 



Lond. 1886, p. 42. 

 Spindasis lohita, var. negrila, Felder, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. p. 487 (1862). 

 Amhlypodia pindarus, Horsfield and Moore (nee Fabricius), Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 37 (1857). 

 Aphnseus lazularia, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 107, pi. 41, figs. 1, lb, ^ ; la, 9; Ic, larva and pupa 



(1881). 

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

 Aphnseus himalayanus, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 26. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 303. 

 Aphnseus himalaijana, Waterhouse, Aid, ii. pi. 163, figs. 4, 4a, $ (1885). 

 Spindasis himalayanus, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 369. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackish-brown tinted with violet-blue. Forewivg 

 sometimes with some of the bands of the underside visible through the wing, the 

 violet-blue with some gloss in certain lights merging into the black costal and outer 

 marginal borders. Hindwwg with the blue colour more distinct and somewhat more 

 glossy, covering the whole surface of the wing except the costal space and the abdominal 

 fold which are broadly pale blackish-brown, outer marginal line black, a fairly large 

 anal orange patch, a black spot in the anal lobe, a small one between the tails, each 

 with some silvery scales ; tails black, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings grey. 

 Underside yellowish-white, bands very dark red, with more or less disconnected 



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