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bands. Southern India and Ceylon, in the Tiger Mts. (Nilgiris), single though not rare. — bracteatus Btlr., bracieatus. 
from Mhow in the Himalaya, taken from June till October. The upper surface of the <$ exhibits the ochreous 
bands as strongly developed as in the the hindwing is paler, the bands from beneath showing through as 
dark grey stripes. Beneath the wings are of a creamy ground-colour, not so dull as in the nomenclatural form; 
the bands are finer and darker red, so that the silvery axes are more prominent. The 5th band of the forewing, 
being connected with the 6th in vulcanus, is separate liere. — In javanusFn^sk, from Sukabumi in West Java, javanus. 
on the contrary the stripes beneath are broader and more blackish-brown; it flies at an altitude of 600 m. 
A. ictis Hew. (= schistacea Mr.). Above the dark ground-colour shows a small reddish-yellow cell- ictis. 
end spot and a red anal spot; beneath the ferruginous-brown transverse bands are so broad that this colour 
predominates, the original creamy ground-colour only appearing yet in 3 or 4 narrow transverse lines. — The 
small yellowish-red spot on the forewing may vary a great deal; in typical ictis it is a reddish longitudinal patch; 
in ab. ceylonica Fldr. it is mostly a small transverse spot, but such specimens are by no means confined to ceylonica. 
Ceylon. — In lunulifera Mr. (157 b as lunijera), from Sikkim,, it forms a crescent *). — maximus Elw. is a very lunulifera. 
large form from Burma. —- In khurdanus Mr., from Calcutta and the Orissa District, the $$ above exhibit a 
more dark grey ground-colour with a rather large orange spot of the forewing, whereas the AS are above 
spotless. The under surface is quite different from that in ictis, being rather uni-coloured dark reddish ochreous- 
brown, the stripes not contrasting so much with the ground-colour. — nubilus Mr., presumably only a season- nubilus. 
form, has a similar, more sand-coloured under surface, but according to de Niceville also in the $ a very 
small discal spot on the foj'ewing above. - trifurcata Mr., from the Himalaya, is not sharply separable from trifurcatci. 
typical ictis, because the marks of distinction vary rather frequently; the colouring above in the A is violettish- 
brown, -the basal area of a more bluish-grey tint than in typical ictis, the orange spot of the forewing is very 
large and divided into 3 lobes by dark embedments. — ictina Fruhst. (157 b) is quite similar, the A with a very ictina. 
intense blue lustre, the discal spot of the fore wing upwards distinctly three-pronged, the anal spot of the hindwing 
extending along the hind-margin as a narrow stripe. The latter forms may apparently occur aberratively in 
very different districts. — uniformis Mr. which is probably only the discal-spotted A form of elima Mr. (being uniformis. 
normally spotless in the forewing above), is beneath almost quite uni-coloured earthy brown with a slight e ^ ma - 
ruddle-red tinge, the transverse bands being but very feebly marked, their colour not really contrasting with 
the ground-colour. Fruhstoreer considers both to be ,,extreme forms of the dry season 11 , whereas de Niceville 
presumes them to have but one generation in Kashmir (i. e. in its palearctic part with a short summer-season). 
— The imagines of this species being not rare are particularly in India and Ceylon often met with on thistle- 
heads. 
34. Genus: Apliarftfs Riley. 
This genus has recently (1925) been separated from the Cigaritis, because the latter was confined to 
the two species allardi Oberth. and zohra Donz. with numerous forms. The Apharitis differ from the Cigaritis in 
the shape of the wings, the forewing being almost exactly triangular with a smoothly cut-off distal margin. 
The colouring is rather much like that of the Cigaritis owing to the dark, filled stripes beneath, whilst the structure 
approaches that of Spindasis. The type of the genus is A. epargyros Eversm. 
A. epargyros Eversm. was placed as a synonym to acamas Klug in Vol. I, but it differs in the epargyros. 
spot in the cell 6 of the fore wing never being white as it is invariably in acamas-, above all the hind-margin 
of the forewing is deeply excised; besides there are also differences in the male genitals. Baluchistan to Kurdistan, 
Kirgiz Steppes, and Kulja. 
A. acamas Klug. The typical form occurs in North East Africa and the adjoining Asiatic countries, such acamas. 
as Arabia and Syria, whereas the form hypargyros Btlr. (vol. I, p. 279) occurs in Afghanistan and Baluchistan hypargyros. 
through the Punjab as far as Karachi and Sindh. chitralensis Riley , more in palearctic Kashmir, is much chitralensis. 
deeper ochreous than hypargyros, the black markings being more prominent and more diffuse, the submarginal 
band anastomosing with the marginal band, the costal white being reduced to a dot. Beneath the stripes are 
as in hypargyros but darker and more intensely bordered with black. From Nagar in Chitral, at altitudes of 
4 to 9000 ft. — The larva which in Vol. I was supposed to feed on Astragalus, lives on Cassia, it is fawn- 
coloured with a mahogany-coloured head and dorsum of the collar, of the same colour are dorsal and lateral 
lines as well as dots on the 4th to 9th rings. On the 12th ring the dorsum exhibits lateral appendages 
from which sometimes a fleshy tongue is protruded, which probably serves as an ant-organ. 
A. Hlacinus Mr. (= aestivus Swh.). The is above pale brown, with a violet reflection, and a blackish Ulacinus. 
cell-end spot of the forewing; on the hindwing the anal lobe is red with a very small black, silvery marked 
centre. Beneath light ochreous-brown, in the cell of the forewing 2 black rings, at the cell-end a band widening 
* To this scarcely denominable aberration belongs also the J figured as „ictis i( in Vol. I, pi. 75 h. 
