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joint minute ; hind tibise with two pairs of spurs, and in the male with a long tuft 

 of hairs near the proximal end. 



Type, Eudamus infernus, Felder. 



HANTANUS INFEBNUS. 



Plate 756, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, ? . 



Eudamus infernus, Felder, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1868, p. 283. 



Haniana infernus, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 179, pi. 68, fig. 6 (1881). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 145 



(1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 37; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422, 



Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 110. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purplish-brown, nearly purplish-black. Forewing 

 with three outwardly oblique (sometimes only two), dull golden-yellow sub-apical dots, an 

 indistinct dot at the upper end of the cell, sometimes wanting. Hindwing without 

 markings. Cilia of both wings blackish-brown. Underside nearly as dark as the 

 upperside, but duller in colour. Forewing with the spots as above, the hinder marginal 

 space pale. Hindwing with a very indistinct golden dot within the cell and another at 

 its end and a few across the disc, all very indistinct and often entirely wanting. 

 Antennae with the upper half of the club pale ; palpi blackish-brown, with a grey 

 band on the sides and a short grey streak under the eyes ; head paler than the body, 

 with a few minute whitish scales ; body above and below and the legs concolorous with 

 the wings, abdomen pale on the underside. 



Female, like the male above and below, but in some examples there is a small 

 golden extra dot in the forewing on the costa above the end of the cell. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1^% to 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



In our collection from Ceylon. 



ERRATA. 



p. 4. Plate 706, fig. 3a ; for ? read $ . 

 p. 9. Plate 702, should be 707. 



p. 12. Erase Horaga onychina, Staudinger, it is a Marmessus, entered on p. 194. 

 p. 50. Rapala scintilla ; after Imago insert Male. 



p. 89. Line 2 ; first subcostal nervure, should be first subcostal nervule. 

 p. 173. Aphnaeus rukmini, should be Aphnseus rukma. 

 p. 174. line 6 ; rukmini, should be rukma. 



p. 201. Cheritrella, line 3 ; the latter slightly the longer, should be the lower slightly the longer. 

 p. 219. Sithon nedymond, Papilio nedymond ; erase the words Sithon nedymond. 

 p. 226. Genus Pola, line 14, insert a comma after the word spurs. 

 p. 262. Erionota lalita, Elwes, should be Orthophcetus lalita, Elwes. 

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