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wing, nearly circular, with a very obvious fringe of large scales, is 
set at right angles to the plane of the wing and to the direction of 
the veins.” [See Fig. 5.] 
According to Schatz and Bober, 1 this “anal lobe” occupies the 
space between the sub-median and inner marginal veins ; the second 
anal and third anal of Comstock; lb and lc of Meyrick; but I have 
not found in these authors any allusion to the striking fact that this 
lobe is quite out of the plane of the wing. This omission may be 
due to the fact that the process of setting usually flattens the lobe out 
APHNAEUS ELIMA , Moore. 
Enlarged from sketches from the living butterfly. 
Head. 
Apex of FW. 
H.W. in close apposition. 
Longitudinal fold 
in HW. . 
Anterior tails . 
Everted anal lobe _| 
Posterior tails 
Diagrammatic view from above. 
. Apex oFf.w. 
-H.W. in close apposition 
. Anterior tails 
....■Posterior tails 
- -Everted anal lobe 
Diagrammatic view from behind. 
Longitudinal 
fold in tivi 
Drawn at Benares , November 30,1903, by G. B. Longstaff. 
Fig. 5. 
so that its natural form is hardly seen in cabinet specimens. It did 
not occur to me at the time (and the suggestion arrived by letter too 
late) that the object of this structure is possibly to produce the 
appearance of a head in a non-vital part, the tails representing the 
antennae. However, drawings made at the time strongly bear out 
the suggestion. The resemblance would be still more striking if 
these Lycaenids, like so many of the family, habitually rest with the 
head downwards. 2 
In another letter from Benares I said: “ Thorns are not specially 
bad here, only that one does not know the look of many thorny 
1 Exotische Schmetterlinge: II. Theil. Familien und Gattungen der Tag falter, 
1892, pp. 268-9, Plate 47. 
2 See Chapter X., § 10. 
