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black scaling of the second joint is redncpcl to an apical s]K)t, and very often tlie first 

 joint is almost wlioll}- black. The variation in the colour of the jiulpi is qnite inde- 

 pendent of the variation of the wiug-oolonr. The postmcdial spots of the hindwing 

 are sometimes extremely faint, sometimes there is only one spot i)resent, and the 

 same amount of variation is exhibited by the white nervnlar lines. Therefore it 

 will be evident that llaraijson's mon)/cha and chivata are the same species. 



The white middle fascia of the forewing is rather constant in the Indian form; 

 it is a long triangle that reaches beyond the apex of the cell and is mostly sinuate 

 between veins 2 and 3. The submedian vein is sometimes rather more heavily 

 white than the other veins. The dorsal black spots of the abdomen are apparently 

 always rather small, and do not form transverse rings as is often the case in various 

 Eastern subspecies. The black marginal band of the hindwing is usually indented 

 posteriorly at the nervules ; sometimes the median and submedian veins are wholly 

 white. On the underside the black postmcdial sjiots of the hindwing are occasion- 

 ally joined to the Mack margin, and the white area of the forewing is sometimes, 

 especially in Hongkong individuals, scarcely larger than on the npperside. 



Hab. Khasia Hills, 9 J, 3 ? ; Xaga Hills, IS, 1 ? ; Chittagong Hills, 1 ? : 

 Tenasserim; Malacca; Hongkong, 3 S. K. J. 



b. A. heliconia dicta. 



Uypsii dicta Butler, Tr. Eiit. Snc. Loml. p. ?,\u. n. 4 (ICiTo) (Borneo; iwc Philippines); Swinh., 

 Cat. Lip. Het. 0.rf. I. p. 86. n. 385 (1892) {ex p.); Kirby, Cat. Lep. Bet. I. p. .SSa n. 14 

 (1892) (Borneo ; rifc Philippines). 



Aganais dicta, Snellen, Tijdschr. >: Ent. XXXI. p. 143. n. 33 (1888) (Borneo : mc Philippines). 



Hypsa mrmycha, Hampson, .^fulJis of Ind. I. p. 499. n. 1137 (1892) {fx p.). 



Many specimens come very near Indian examples. There occur two forms 

 which, however, are not distinctly separated. 



i'. A. heliconia dicta f dicta Butler, I.e. 



This form has the forewing of a deeper blackish colour than it is in heliconia 

 clcmtta ; the white streak of the forewing is as narrow as in our Hongkong 

 specimens of clatata, and is generally convex externally between veins 2 and 3, not 

 sinuate : there are no, or only faint, white nervnlar lines in the basal half of the 

 forewing. The marginal band of the hindwing varies in breadth as in chitata ; on 

 the npperside it is not indented at the veins, but very often sinuate between the 

 veins, the black colour in that case being extended a little way along the nervules ; 

 the jiostmedial black spots are very seldom marked, and the sjjot at the ajjcx of the 

 cell is often, but by no means always, absent from the npperside. On the underside 

 the basal portion of the discal streak of the forewing is uio.stly obsolete in the i. 



In a <? specimen from the Kiua Bain, N. Borneo, the prothorax is devoid of 

 the two black sjiots which are present in all our other Bornean individuals, and the 

 npperside of the mesothorax is more clay-colonr than in ordinary specimens : more- 

 over, the white streak on the forewing is, on the underside, as much enlarged as it 

 is in most females. A/emale from the same mountain, in Ur. 8taudinger's collection, 

 resembles so closely the Javan A. heliconia intacta f. intacta that we at first thought 

 of an error of locality ; it has the same peculiar fawn-colour as intacta f. intacta ; the 

 discal streak of the forewing consists, as it ol'ten does in the male of the aforesaid 

 Javan form, of a line behind the cell and an oval sjmt between veins 2 and 3 ; both 

 markings are absent, or almost so, from all the Javimjonalcs before us. K. rl. 



