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Show 1883.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 147 mere undulated stripe; the first and second white bands of secondaries pure, not crossed by coloured veins, edged on both sides with black dots ; submarginal white spots less widely separated ; an undulated white marginal stripe in place of the pairs of white dots. Expanse of wings 41 m m. One example, Depalpore, January 1882. " Depalpore is a lake-district 30 miles north of Mhow." " A common Hypanis here, at Assirghar, and at Depalpore in September and October."'-C. S. 8. AMBLYPODIA ANITA. Amblypodia anita, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M . p. 14, pi. 8. figs. 90, 91 (1862). 8 2 • Madras. 9. SURENDRA BIPLAGIATA, sp. n. (Plate XXIV. fig. 12.) 8. Near to S. discalis, but easily distinguished by having no violet patches on the upper surface of the secondaries aud by the grey colouring of the under surface, upon which the markings are extremely indistinct. Expanse of wings 33 m m. Madras. 10. DEUDORIX MELAMPUS. Papilio melampus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 362. f. G, H (1782). 8, M h o w ; 2, Solun. " Not common here ; one or two taken in September, October, and February ; I have also examples from Hydrabad, Sind, and from Belgaum."-C. S. 11. APHNJ5US EL1MA. Aphnaus elima, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 51 (1877). Mhow, December 1881. " Not common here (Mhow) ; taken in November, December, and January : five specimens in all."-C. S. 12. APHNAUS BRACTEATUS, sp. n. (Plate XXIV. figs. 10, 11.) Allied to A. vulcanus (the male of A. etolus, Cram.); from which it may be distinguished as follows :-The male above with the tawny bands almost as well developed as in the female of that species ; the female with the primaries tawny excepting along the inner margin, and crossed by black bands corresponding with those of the under surface ; secondaries in both sexes paler, showing the under-surface markings as dark grey bands ; the tawny submarginal streak continued to apex and for the most part white in the female. Wings below creamy white, not sordid as in A. vulcanus, the bands narrower and of a darker duller red-colour so as to show up the silver spangles distinctly; the fifth band on the primaries free, not united to the sixth as in A. vulcanus; on the secondaries the large orange anal |