391 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



37. ABARATHA ALIDA, n. sp., PL G, Fig. 40, 6 . 



Habitat : Tilin Yaw, Upper Burma. 



Expanse : 6 , 1'55 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings dull pale ochreous- 

 brown. Cilia white, inwardly defined by a fine dark line, and 

 prominently spotted with darker at the ends of the veins. Forewing 

 with a small round white transparent spot about the middle of the 

 discoidal cell, outwardly defined with black ; an irregularly- shaped 

 similar spot at the end of the cell; three conjoined subapical spots, 

 the middle one the largest ; two minute dots below these, placed 

 inwardly obliquely, divided by the lower discoidal nervule ; below 

 these again are four more spots, the first (uppermost), third and fourth 

 equal-sized, small, the second much the largest, the first is placed in 

 the second median interspace, the second in the first median inter- 

 space, the third and fourth in the submedian interspace ; immediately 

 beyond the above-described nine spots which completely cross the 

 disc is an indistinct series of nine small dark lunules placed one each 

 outwardly against each of the spots. Hindmng practically unmarked, 

 though there are traces of darkish spots on the disc. Underside , 

 both icings thickly overlaid with large pure white scales, so that the dark 

 grouud-colour is entirely hidden except narrowly along the outer 

 margins, the whole wing-surface having the appearance of being 

 thickly strewn with hoar-frost. Forewing with the eleven trans- 

 parent white spots as on the upperside. Hindwing unmarked. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen above and beneath concolorous with the 

 wings. Legs white, the foreleg with the usual long tuft of deep 

 black hairs attached to the coxa. Antenna?, blackish, the shaft 

 finely ringed with ochreous, the club beneath ochreous. 



A. alida has the spots on the forewing practially the same as in 

 A. ransonnetii, Felder, and A. taylorii, mihi, but smaller; but it 

 differs in the tone of the coloration of the upperside, the former 

 being very dark brown with a good deal of ochreous, while the latter 

 is almost entirely ochreous ; the underside of A. alida is, however, 

 conspicuously different from either, being frosted with white 

 throughout except very narrowly along the outer margins of both 

 wings. 



Described from a single male example captured at Tilin Yaw, Upper 



