184 LEPIBOPTEBA INDICA. 



first two abruptly angled inwards on to tke abdominal margin, the third continued in a 

 linear form in a similar manner, a sub-marginal series of grey spots, a series of short 

 thin linear marks close to the margin ; anal patch pale yellow, with two black spots, 

 with a few silvery scales on them. Antennae broken ; frons white, with a central lirown 

 liand ; eyes ringed with white, body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Expanse of wings, $ y% inch. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Described and figured from the unique example in the B. M. 



INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Aphnseus frigidus, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 350, pi. 32, fig. 10. Habitat, Borneo. 

 Aplmsexis vixinga, Hewitson, Ent. Mo. Mag. xii. p. 39 (1875). Habitat, Borneo. 

 Aphnseus formosana, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 51. Habitat, Formosa. 

 Aphnseus hiendlnmyrii, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1894, p. 38, pi. 5, fig. 5, ? . Habitat, 

 N.E. Sumatra. 



Aphnseus leechi, nov. Male. Upperside of a bright slaty -blue colour. Forewing 

 with the costa narrowly, the outer margin more broadly black, the latter abruptly 

 narrowing towards the hinder angle. Hindwing with the costal and abdominal .spaces 

 broadly black, anal patch bright orange, a large black anal spot with metallic blue 

 scales on it and a small one between the tails, which are black, tipped with white. Cilia 

 ( >f both wings black, tipped with white. Underside bright pale primrose colour, bands 

 disposed as in A. lohita, Horsfield, but of a dark brown-pink colour, nearly black, with 

 middle lines of beautiful silvery scales. 



Female. Upperside brown, without any blue sheen, otherwise similar to the male 

 alwve and below. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Moupin and Ichang, W. China. Types in B.M. 



Sub-Family BIDUANDIN^E. 



Contain three genera from the Indian region, Biduanda, Distant, Marmessus, 

 Hiibner, and Eooxylides, de Niceville, all with secondary sexual characters in the males, 

 consisting of peculiarly formed scales only, and all with three tails to the hindwing, 

 at the ends of veins 3, 2 and the sub-median vein, the middle tail the longest, all three 

 tails strongly ciliated ; the eyes are naked. Marmessus and Eooxylides have two 

 sub-costal nervules in the forewing, and Biduanda has three, and all are inhabitants of 

 Burma and the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



