34 . LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Distribution. — The type came from the Coromacdel Coast. Doherty recorded 

 it from Kumaun, Ranibagh and the Kali Valley, Mackinnon aud de Niceville from 

 Mussuri, de Rhe-Philipe from Lucknow, Nurse from Kutch, Ilampson from the Nilgiris ; 

 we took it at Poona, Karachi, Mhow, Ahmednugger and Aden ; it is never very 

 common, but is generally distributed throughout India, and both de Niceville and 

 Bingham record it from Ceylon. 



AZANU8 URANUS. 



Plate 648, figs. 3, <J , 3a, $. 



Azanus uranus, Butler, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 366, pi. 35, fig. 1, ^ ; id. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1888, 

 p. 146. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 124 (1890). Nurse, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1899, 

 p. .512. de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, p 488. Leslie and Evans, id. 1903, p. 674. Bingham, Fauna 

 of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 363 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside coloured like A. uhalduf^, but paler ; terminal line 

 black, no brown edgings ; the two blackish spots near the anal angle of the hindwing 

 obsolescent. Underside grey, darker than in ubaldus, markings similarly disposed, but 

 very obscure, and the black sub-costal and sub-basal spots on the hindwing very small, 

 and the discal series somewhat differently disposed, being composed of short lunules 

 joined together and broken at its upper end. 



Female. Upperside much paler than in uhaldus, the blue basal suffusion more 

 extensive. Underside like the male in colour, the markings very ill-defined, the sub- 

 liasal spots on the hindwing obsolescent, sometimes absent, the outer sub-costal spot 

 present, the two sub-terminal spots near the anal angle large. Cilia, antennae, head 

 and body as in ubaldus. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1 inch. 



Habitat. — India. 



Distribution. — We took it in Beluchistan, Karachi, Poona and Mhow, Irvine in 

 Malda, Yerbury in Campbellpur and Chitta Pahar, Punjab ; Leslie and Evans record 

 it from Chitral, de Ehe-Philipe from Lucknow, Nurse from Kutch. 



AZANUS GAMRA. 



Plate 648, figs. 4, ^, 4a, ?, 4b, $. 



Lijcsena gamra, Lederer, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. v. p. 189, pi. i. fig. 3, (J (1855). 



Azanus gamra, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 132. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 125, pi. 26, fig. 176, ^ (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 34, and 1891, 



p. 44. 

 Azanus crameri, Moore, Lep. Cej-lon, i. p. 80, pi. 36, fig. 1 (1881). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 



1888, p. 357. 

 Azarus jesous, Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 363 (1907). 



