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hindwing above is nearly straight, the white snbmarginal dots are heavy, the 

 forewiug has two snbmarginal dots (as cujrariusi f. (temp. ?) agrariua). But the most 

 remarkable character found in a number of individuals is the colour of the band on the 

 underside, the l)and not being white, but yellow with a white edge. As Mr. Watson 

 obtained in the same locality at the same time of the year (February) also ordinary 

 specimens, it is probable that this yellow-banded form is not of normal occurrence. 

 But collectors visiting the same locality should pay special attention to E. atkamas. 

 For the present it is best not to name the form, but to keep it under bhurata on 

 account of the small red spots on the underside of the hindwing. Mr. Watson 

 obtained in the same locality at the same time of the year also specimens which 

 have broader bands, coming nearer to blmrata, and with only one snbmarginal dot on 

 the forewing. Moore, Lep. hid, II. p. 257, treats the form as agrarius on account 

 of the presence of two snbmarginal spots on the forewing ; with the South Indian 

 atkamas agrarius it has, however, nothing to do ; it occurs within the area of 

 atkamas atkamas^ with which it agrees in the position of the cell-bar of the 

 forewing below, and has also the darker femora of the latter. 



c^. E. athamas athamas f. temp, hamasta (Nov. Zool. V. t. X. f. 1. 3, S). 



i. Wings more elongate than in f temp, athamas and f. temp, hknrata. Band 

 very wide, at SM- more than twice as wide as the black basal area ; base of both 

 wings and especially the abdominal fold paler than in the preceding two forms ; 

 discal patch SC° — R' of forewing large, mnch longer than broad, seldom with the 

 trace of a small sjjot in front ; generally one small siabmarginal dot, which is some- 

 times absent ; a white line in middle of costal margin, and rarely a whitish patch 

 in cell in the extreme sjjecimens. 



Underside pale, postdiscal spots small ; submedian line of bars more or less 

 obsolete in the palest individuals, often also the median bars of the hindwing nearly 

 all obliterated. 



Hub. Kashmir, N.W. India, N. India to Siam, Malacca, Tonkin and South 

 China (Hong-Kong). 



In the Tring Museum are specimens from the following localities ; — 



a^.f. temp, athamas: Sikkim, July to November, SS, ? ? ; Khasia, 



Garo and Naga Hills, Assam ; Tonkin ; Burma, various places, 



October to December ; Tenasserim, March, May ; Penang, October ; 



Perak, Blay. 



4'. f. temp, bkarata : Ranikhet, May ; Kulu, Naini Tal, Kangra, N.W. 



India, June ; Sikkim, June ; Khasia Hills ; Shan States. 

 c^. f. temp, hamasta : Sikkim, March. 

 Authentic Chinese specimens we have not examined. The specimens from the 

 Malay Peninsula are partly indistinguishable from the following race. 



As many authors have mixed up the pale forms of athamas with E. arja, we 

 do not always know if what is recorded about the habits refers to atkamas only, or 

 to atkamas and arja. But as both species have most likely the same habits, we shall 

 give here what is said of them, without trying to keep that which refers apparently 

 to arja separate from the notes on athamas. 



Lang, I.e., in his notes on the Diurnal Lepidoptera of North-Western India, 

 says of athamas : " An insect of extremely rapid flight, flashing like lightning up and 



