*  For  the  purpose  of  examining  the  neuration,  it  is  not  necessary  to  denude  the  wings  of  the  scales,  spirits  of  wine  and
a  camel's-hair  brush  being  quite  efficacious,  and,  if  the  brush  is  used  lightly,  causing  no  injury  to  the  most  delicate  Lycxnida.
Benzoline  can  also  be  used,  but  its  disagreeable  smell  renders  it  less  useful  than  the  spirits  of  wine.
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The  species  of  this  genus  have  hitherto  been  placed  in  the  genus  Aphmeus,  the  type  of
which  is  the  African  A.  orcas,  Dru.,  which  has  five  subcostal  uervules  to  the  anterior  wings,  *
and  consequently  is  quite  distinct  from  Spindasis,  which  has  but  four.  The  late  Mr.  Hewitson
pointed  out  the  difference  in  the  neuration,  f  and  though  Mr.  Moore,  in  his  '  Lepidoptera  of
Ceylon,'  describes  the  genus  Aphmeus  on  the  characters  of  Ceylon  species,  and  correctly  gives
the  type  of  the  genus  as  A.  orcas,  he  must  have  been  unable  to  examine  a  specimen  of  that
species.
There  has  been,  however,  no  necessity  to  make  a  new  generic  name,  as  Wallengren
proposed  his  Spindasis  for  the  species  hitherto  known  as  Aphmeus  natalensis,  D.  &  H.,  and  under
that  generic  name  the  Eastern  species  will  find  their  natural  classification.
This  is  an  Ethiopian  as  well  as  an  Oriental  genus,  it  being  particularly  well  represented
in  Africa.     Only  one  species  from  the  Malay  Peninsula  is  at  present  known  to  the  writer.  I

1.   Spindasis  syama.     (Tab.  XXIII.,  figs.  8  &  9  ?  .)

Amhh/pixlia  Si/ama,  Horsfield,  Cat.  Lep.  E.I.  C.  p.  107,  u.  39  (1829).
Amhhjpodia  Stjma,  Westw.  Gen.  Diuru.  Lep.  p.  -178,  u.  20  (18.52).
Aphnaus  Si/ama,  Horsf.  &  Moore,    Cat.  Lep.  Mus.  E.I.  C.    i.   p.  38,   u.  50  (1857);    Hewits.  111.  Diurn.  Lep.
p.  61,  t.  25,  f.  7  (1865).
