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APHN^US LAZULARIA (Plate 41, Fig. 1, \ a,h, $ ?, 1 c, larva). 



Male. Upperside violet-brown ; basal areas laznline-blue ; anal lobe witti a dull 

 orange-red patch and silver-speckled black spots. Female olive-brown, with indistinct 

 ochreous-grey transverse fasciae ; basal areas slightly bluish-grey ; anal lobe brighter 

 red. Underside pale ochreous-yellow : forewing with a deep purple-red silver-streaked 

 basal triangular band, a band extending across and over the middle of the cell, one 

 at the end, a short confluent double band beyond, a submarginal and a confluent 

 slender marginal band : hindwing with two transverse basal similar bands, two 

 discal, a submarginal, aud a slender marginal band ; anal lobe bright red, black 

 spots large and silver-bordered ; no black marginal line on any of the bands. In 

 some specimens of the male the interspace between all the bands is nearly of the 

 same deep red colour as the bands, this variety being represented in Hewitson's 

 Diurnal Lep. pi. 25, fig. 10, as pertaining to A. Lohita. 



Expanse If to l-±- inch. 



Larva fusiform, head prominent ; head and segments laterally minutely pilose ; 

 greyish purple-brown minutely white-speckled, each segment with a blackish 

 transverse band and white lateral streak. Pupa attenuated, thorax angular at the 

 sides ; purple-brown. 



"Feeds on Convolvulace^e " [Tliivaites) . 



" Kandy ; Hambantotte. Common. Frequents low thorny bushes. When 

 disturbed flies round and darts about very fast, but does not go far, soon returning 

 to settle" (F^at^e). 



APHNiEUS ICTIS. 



Apknceus Ictis, Hewitson, Illust. Diurnal Lep. p. 61, pi. 25, fig. 8, 9 (1865), $. 

 Spindasis Ceylonica, Felder, Verh. Zool. Bot. G-escL 1868, p. 281, $. 



Male. Upperside purple violet-brown; lower discal areas glossed with ultra- 

 marine-blue : forewing with a small somewhat triangular orange-red spot ; anal lobe 

 also red and spotted with black. Underside pale dull sulphur-yellow, the transverse 

 markings of a slightly darker ochreous-yellow, all with a black-bordered line and 

 central silvery streak ; exterior margin of both wings with a row of slender black 

 spots. Female. Upperside brown ; basal areas greyish vinous-brown, the orange 

 spot on forewing large, broad, obliquely divided, and occupying the discal area. 



Expanse, 5 1^,? lA inch. 



Mr. Hewitson {loc. cit.) gives N. India as the locality of A. Ictis. His description 

 and figures are taken from a female specimen (so labelled by him) in the British 

 Museum Collection, which, though ticketed as from Ceylon, is not so stated by him. 

 The variety which he indicates as " having the orange space on forewing smaller " is 



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