PLEBEIN^. 33 



AZANUS UBALDUS. 

 Plate 648, figs. 2, (J , 2a, ? , 2b, ^ . 



Papilio uhaldus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 209, pi. 390, figs. L, M (1782). Herbst. Pap. pi. 312, 



figs. 3, 4, <J (1804). 

 Polyovimatus uhaldus, Godarfc, Euc. Meth. ix. p. 682 (1823). 

 Azanits uhaldus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 245. Butler, id. 1886, p. 366. Doherty, Journ. 



As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 130. Haropson, id. 1888, p. 357. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 123. Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 380. Nurse, id. 1839, 



p. 512, de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, p. 488. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 362, pi. 19, 



fig. 138 (1907). 

 CatochrysopB uhaldus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 149. 

 Lycsena zena, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 505, pi. 31, fig. 9, ? . 

 Azanus zena, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 483, and 1885, p. 763, and 1886, p. 365. Swinhoe, 



id. 1884, p. 507, and 1885, p. 134, and 1886, p. 428. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside bluish-purple, with a slight shade of brown iu the 

 middle of the wings. Forewing with the outer margin edged with brownish, the cell 

 and beyond it in the disc covered with hair-like specialized scales. Hindwing also with 

 brown marginal edgings, two black sub-terminal spots in interspaces 1 and 2, the 

 latter the larger and more prominent ; both wings with white cilia, black at its base. 

 Underside pale grey. Forewing with the markings pale brown, edged with white ; 

 a streak from the base to the middle of the wing near the costa ; a bar at the end of 

 the cell, a black sub-costal spot above it, another similar spot a little further forward, 

 an upper discal bar from the costa to the middle of the wing, short bar below it on 

 the inner side, a sub-terminal broken line, a terminal line, and some short linear marks 

 between them. Hindwing with three sub- basal black spots in a line, the lower two 

 rather close together, a sub-costal black spot near the apex, two sub-terminal similar 

 spots near the anal angle, all large and prominent and edged with white, all the other 

 markings brown, also edged with white, a line at the end of the cell, a discal broken 

 band of three linear marks, terminal brown line, sub-terminal sinuous line and some 

 more or less angulated spots between them. 



Female. Upperside blue, more or less suffused with brown, with purplish-blue 

 suffusion, and terminal black line ; a sub-terminal series of brown spots ringed with 

 white, one near the anal angle large and prominent, sometimes with two ; capped often 

 with very pale orange ; all the other spots capped with white and with another row of 

 whitish lunules ; these sub-terminal marks varying much iu different specimens. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white, apex of club also white ; head and body dark brown 

 above with blue pubescence, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ ^ to 1 inch. 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon. 

 VOL. vin. F 



