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INDIAN LEPIDOrXERA IIIIOPALOCERA 



FROM TUK 



COLLECTION OF THE LATE MR. W. S. ATKINSON. 



BY 

 W. C. HEWITSON, F.L.S., F.Z.S., etc. 



Family NYMPHALID^. 



Genus ADOLIAS. 



Adolias sateopaces. (Plate I. figs. 6, ~, 8.) 

 Adolias satropaces , HeTvitson, Entomologist's Monthly ^Magazine, 1876. p. 1.50. 



Male. Upperside dark brown ; anterior wing projecting at the apex, as in A. cocytus ; 

 marked in the cell by a black line and by two large pale spots bordered with black, by a 

 spot and two short black lines below these, and by another pale undefined spot near the 

 apex ; the outer margin, except at the apex, rufous-grey ; posterior wing with the outer 

 half of the same colour. 



Underside ochreous-yellow ; anterior wing with the spots in the cell and a linear sub- 

 marginal band of brown ; posterior wing wuth some scarcely seen spots and bands before and 

 after the middle. 



Female pale rufous-brown ; anterior wing with the spots in and below the cell as in 

 the male : marked beyond the middle by six transparent spots, five in a transverse band, 

 and one near the apex ; crossed near the outer margin from the apex by a dark brown band, 

 which is continued to the middle of the inner margin of the posterior wing. Posterior wing 

 with two spots in the cell and a series of submarginal lunular spots of brown. 



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