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very strong, terminating about middle of costa ; subcostal nervure four- 
branched/ — the first and second nervules originating (widely apart) 
considerably before extremity of discoidal cell, third rather nearer apex 
than to extremity of cell, and fourth terminating at apex ; upper radial 
nervule springing from subcostal nervure a little distance beyond ex- 
tremity of cell ; middle and lower disco-cellular nervules about equal 
in length, slightly curved; no tuft on inner margin in IIi7id-wings 
prominently produced in anal -angular portion ; costa rather strongly 
arched ; costal nervure much arched, terminating at a little distance 
before apex ; radial and disco-cellular nervules as in Hypolycceiia ; two 
rather short, linear tails, respectively on submedian nervure and first 
median nervule, of which the former is the longer ; no badge in 
Fore-legs of J rather large, scaly, — femur with some thin fine hair 
beneath ; tibia with three or four pairs of rather long spines beneath ; 
tarsus closely spinulose beneath, and not perceptibly articulate, but with 
pairs of longer spines indicating the articulations ; — of the $ but a little 
larger and thicker, — tarsus considerably thicker, distinctly articulate, 
and with a pair of claws at extremity. Middle and hind legs stout, — 
tibiae with well-developed terminal spurs ; tarsi strong, thickly sjDinulose 
beneath . 
Larva. — Eather elongate, broad anteriorly and about middle, but 
narrowing considerably posteriorly ; segment next head apparently jdio- 
jecting as a short hood ; anal segment produced, and bristly. On 
Convolvulaccce (Thwaites)." — F. Moore. 
Pupa. — Kather slender, elongate ; thorax angulated laterally. 
(These characters of the larva and pupa are taken from the figures 
of those of the Cingalese A. lazidaria in Moore's Leioidoj^tera of Ceylon^ 
pi. 41, ff". ic.) 
ApJmmis is strictly an Old-World genus, but ranges widely through 
Africa and Southern Asia, from Sierra Leone (A. Orcas, Drury ^) to 
the Philippine Islands (A. Syama, Hewits.) Two species are Arabian, 
and one of them (A. Acamas, King) is recorded from Asia Minor. 
Of the twenty species known, nine are African and nine from India 
and the Indo-Malayan Islands, four of the latter inhabiting Ceylon. 
Seven of the African species are found in Southern Africa, and four of 
them seem to be peculiar to the sub-region. I exclude from the genus 
the Syrian and North-African species Cilissa, Zohra, and SijjJicix, 
^ In ^. HutcTiinsonii, Trim, (and I believe in A. Orcas, Drury), this nervure has five 
branches, the third nervule arising rather nearer end of cell, and the fourtli and fifth nervules 
(of which the former ends at apex and the latter a little below it) originating about midway 
between the origin of the third and the apex. 
^ Hewitson {loc. at.) describes an example of what he believes to be the female of Drury 's 
Orcas from the Hope Collection at Oxford. Through the kindness of Professor Westwood, 
I had the opportunity, in 1867, of examining and noting the characters of this very speci- 
men. It appeared to me to be a S , and certainly not identical with Orcas, — the under side 
being ochreous-yellow, with all the silvery markings edged with purplish-ferruginous, while 
that of Orcas is both described and figured by Drury as chocolate-brown generally, without 
mention or delineation of any edging to the silvery marking??. 
