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J. Wood-Mason & L. de Niceville — List of Diurnal 



[No. 4, 



42. POLTOMIIATUS SANGEA. 

 P. sangra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1865, p. 772, pi. 41, fig. 8, $ . 

 Innumerable males and females. The commonest ' blue' in Calcutta, 

 being obtainable in any number wherever there is a patch of grass. 



43. APHNiETJS LOHITA, Var. ZOILTJS. 

 A. zoilus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 588, $ . 

 ? . Larger than the male. Uppebside smoky brown, marked ob- 

 scurely with darker bands corresponding to those of the underside. 

 TJndeeslde with the intervals between the hands wider owing to the 

 greater breadth of the wings. In all other respects as in the male. 

 Length of fore-wing -7 ; whence expanse = 1*46 inches. 

 Males and one female. 



41. Hypoltc^ka eetlus. 

 H. erylus (Godart), Hewitson, 111. D. Lep. Lyc. p. 49, pi. xxi, fig. 1 <?, 2, 4 ? , 

 H. andamana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 589, $ ? . 

 Three males and a female. Absolutely indistinguishable from fresh 

 Sikkim specimens. 



45. SiTHON ST7GEIVA, var. AEECA. 



Amhlypodia sugriva, Ilorsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co. 1829, p. 105, pi. i, figs. 10, 10«, $ . 

 Myrina sugriva, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep.E. I. Co. p. 51, pi. 1«, fig. 12, $ . 

 Myrina areca, Felder, Verhand. zool.-l)ot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1862, vol. xii, 

 p. 481, <?. 



? . Smaller than the male. Upperside sepia-brown with a bronzy 

 gloss, the spots and fascite of the underside scarcely showing through. 

 Hindwing with a pure white patch divided by the brown veins, margined 

 externally by a fine and sharp dark brown or black anteciliary luie, and 

 marked by a large circular black spot at the base of tlie tail on the 

 anterior side and by another smaller lighter and less distinct one on the 

 posterior side ; with the caudal lobe blackish, and the tails black with pure 

 Avhite cilia. Undeeside pure white marked as in the male with dark 

 sepia-brown fasciae and spots, but with the black caudal spots larger and 

 the cilia of the posterior part of the hind-wing pure white like those of 

 the tails. 



Length of fore-wing '66 ; whence expanse = 1'38 inches. • 

 It differs from /S. pliocides $ (= S.jolcus (Felder), Hew., 111. D. Lep. 

 Lye. pi. xiii, figs. 16, 17) in the far less extent of the white patch on the 

 upperside of the hind-wing, and in the larger size and darker colour of 

 the spots and fasciae, as well as in the greater pureness of the white, 

 of the underside generally. 



