LYCMNIBM. 105 



subanal black spot which is inwardly bordered with ochreous and outwardly by 

 grey- white speckles, the speckles continuing to anal angle. Underside pale vinous- 

 grey : both wings with a white-bordered discocellular streak, a discal transverse 

 broad catenulated band, and a less distinct single white submarginal line ; a large 

 black anal and subanal spot, the former inwardly white-bordered, the latter with 

 ochreous border, intervening space blue-speckled. 

 Expanse, ^ If, 2 If inch. 



" Hambantotte. In pathways running through dense jungle. In July " {Wade). 



Genus RAPALA. 

 Allied to Virachola. Wings small : forewing comparatively shorter and less 

 acutely triangular in form ; exterior margin slightly convex ; furnished with a broad 

 tuft of hair on middle of posterior margin beneath : hindwing less produced hindward, 

 more convex exteriorly ; anal angle lobed ; a single tail from end of lower median 

 vein ; male with a broad conical-shaped glandular depression between the costal and 

 subcostal veins, but which does not extend below the subcostal. Palpi shorter, 

 second joint more laxly squamose. 

 T%j])e, R. Yaruna. 



EAPALA LAZULINA (Plate 40, Fig. 3, 3a, i). 

 Deudorix Lazulina, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 140. 



Male. Upperside dull dark lazuline-blue, outer borders black, abdominal margin 

 grey, anal lobe black ; cilia edged with grey. Underside brownish-grey : forewing 

 crossed by a discal band of two narrow white lunular lines, and a short streak at end 

 of the cell : hindwing crossed by similar irregular bands, the discal bent upward to 

 middle of anal margin ; a black spot bordered above with ochreous at anal angle 

 and another beyond. Female purple violet-grey above, the borders violet-brown ; 

 ochreous-grey beneath ; marked as in male. 



Expanse 1\ inch. 



Allied to the Javan R. Varuna (Horsf. Catal. Lep. E. I. C, p. 91), and to 

 B. Orseis, from Singapore. 



"Kandy. Common." (Wade). 



" Kandy and Kaduganawa; scarce" (Mackwood). 



Genus APHN^US. 



Aphnceus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 81 (1816); Hewitson, Illust. D. Lep. p. 60. 

 Gigaritis (part), Lucas, Expior. Alg. Zool. iii. p. 362 (1849). 

 Spindasis, Wallengren, Lep. Rliop. Cafiraria, p. 45 (1857). 



Wings small : forewing triangular ; first subcostal vein emitted at one-half and 

 second at one-third before end of the cell, third and fifth emitted together at a short 

 VOL. I. • p 



