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f'. E. athamas agrarius f. (temp. ?) madeus Rothscli., f. nov. 



(? ? . White snbmarginal dots of the npperside of the hindwing generally 

 slightly larger than ia North Indian individuals of the snmmer broods ; anal 

 admarginal spot paler, less ochraceons. 



Band of wings always narrow, widest at C of hindwing (7 to 9 mm.) ; 

 snbmarginal spot SC^ — R' of forewiag above sometimes absent ; snbmarginal, 

 white, dots of hindwing in most individuals well marked, the posterior ones 

 somewhat enlarged. The anal admarginal, transverse spot is mostly creamy buff, 

 mostly with a glaucous blue tint, seldom pale ochraceons. The underside is 

 generally somewhat paler than in North Indian examjiles. 



The snbmarginal spot of the forewiug above is in most specimens well marked, 

 in others very faint, seldom quite absent. 



5'. E. athamas agrarius f (temp. ?) agrarius. 



<S ? . Both wings more elongate than in f. madeus ; the bases above paler, 

 forewing apparently always with two snbmarginal dots above ; discal spot R' — R^ 

 large, not rounded outwardly, more or less trapeziform ; discal band up to 11 mm. 



wide at SM'- in ? , 8 or 9 mm. in cJ. Hindwing : discal band at SC" from 7 (cJ) 



to 10 (?) mm. wide, biconcave outwardly; white triangular subanal abdominal 

 patch very distinctly marked ; white snbmarginal spots R^ — SM- more than twice 

 the size of spots C — R', the last two merged together to a slightly curved bar ; 

 last admarginal spot (at anal angle) pale glaucous green, admarginal spots R^ — M' 

 creamy with a faint greenish tint, often obliterated, the other admarginal markings 

 more ochraceons, but mostly absent or very faint ; pale bine scaling in tails heavier 

 than in preceding form. 



Undei-side paler, interspace between lines of black bars much less rufous than 

 in the supposed wet-season form ; the upper end of the cell-bar of forewing 

 3 to 5 mm. distant from discocellnlar mark ; upper submedian bar of hindwing (at 

 outside of praecostal vein) incomplete, its anterior portion only being marked ; bar 

 M — (SM') less oblique than the submedian cell-bar, well separated from the latter. 



Middle and hinder legs dirty white, femora not being more or less extended 

 black as in the North Indian forms of uthcunas. Sterna and underside of abdomen 



grey. 



Hab. Ceylon and South India as far north as the Central Provinces, 20 i <S, 

 3 ? $ . Specimens from Deesa (in Colonel Swinhoe's collection) belong to the North 

 Indian geographical race. 



/. macleas in the Tring Museum from Ceylon (Kandy, fi/pe) ; Karwar, 

 September and October ; N. Canara, September ; Calicut ; Coorg ; Kalar, June, 

 August, September. Recorded by Swinhoe from Slathcran, December. 



/. agrarius in the Tring Museum from Bangalore, Mysore, October ; Kalar, 

 May. Recorded by Swinhoe from Mhow and Assirghur, October. Not in Ceylon. 



Desideratum : It is much to be desired that exact observations should be 

 published by entomologists in South India about the time, season, and localities of 

 occurrence of each of the two forms of agrarius. As the form agrarius is apparently 

 not so common as the form madeus, it is not improbable that madeus alone occurs 

 during the insect " season," the monsoons, while the specimens that emerge from 

 the chrysalis during the dry period, when comparatively very few insects are on the 



