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upper median at a short distance from base. Posterior wings subovate ; costal margin convex at base and 

 thence oblique to apex ; posterior margin either prominontl}' angulated at apex of the npper median nervule 

 or regularl}' rounded and slightly waved. Costal nervure very short ; precostal uervure curved outwardly ; 

 subcostal nervules bifurcating beyond the end of the cell ; upper and lower disco-cellular nervulcs about 

 equal in length, the lower joining the upper median nervule M,t a sliort distance from its base. Body 

 somewhat small ; palpi minute, not visible above ; antenmc slender, with a distinct s[)atulate club. 



Little has beeu recorded relating to the life-history of the species belougiug to this genus. 

 The Bros, de Alwis have figured the larva and pupa of a Ceylon species {ante, p. 18G, lig. 48), 

 the first of which is said to feed on Anlisia* and this seems to constitute the whole of the 

 published information. 



Abisara is distributed over a wide area ; it is found in Tropical Africa and Madagascar, 

 inhabits Continental India, Ceylon, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Burma, and the Afalay 

 Peninsula, being also represented generally throughout the Malayan Archipelago. 



I have included under this genus, and in agreement with Mr. Butler, some species which 

 by other authors have been placed in the genus Taxila, Doubl.f 



A. Posterior wimis proininentlii (uujalitted at apex of itjiper median, itervide. 



1. Abisara savitri. (Tab. XVIII., fig. 5 5 .) 



Abisara Sariiri, Felder, Wien. Ent. Mou. iv. p. 397, u. 1'2 (1800) ; Butl. Trims. Liuu. Hoc. ser. 2, Zool. vul. i. 

 p. 545, n. 1 (1877). 



Female. Wings above pale ochreous-brown. Anterior wings with two pale transverse fasciae crossing 

 the apical half, and with two narrow submargiual pale linear fasciffi, each outwardly bordered with fuscous. 

 Posterior wings with two broad pale fasciaj continuous to those of the anterior wings, the first somewhat 

 curved and extending to abdominal margin, the second situate near outer margin and containing two large 

 black spots with whitish surroundings separated by the discoidal nervule, a smaller spot situate between 

 the subcostal nervules, and two small and subobsolete spots at anal angle ; marginal linear fascise as on 

 anterior wings, the outer margin long and linearly caudate at apex of upper median nervule, this 

 prolongation being white. Wings beneath as above. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, (? , 44 to 46 millim. 



Had. — Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Piuwill — Brit. Mus.) : Ayer Panas 

 (Godfery — coll. Dist.) ; Singapore (Brit. Mus.). 



I am still without the male of this species, both sexes of which, judging from collections 

 already passed through my hands, appear to be somewhat scarce or seldom captured. 



2. Abisara kausambi. (Tab. XVIII., tigs. 10 j , 11 s .) 



Atiisara Kdiisiinilji, Felder, Wien. Eut. Men. iv. p. 397, u. 11 (ISGO) ; Jloore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 587 ; 

 Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 545, n. '2 (1877). 



Male. AVings above dark reddish-brown. Wings beneath somewhat paler ; anterior wings crossed 

 by two pale fasciae on the apical half and with a submargiual pale linear fascia, outwardly bordered with 



* Moore's Lep. Ceyl. i. p. G9. 



t Mr. Bates (Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. ix. p. 414) and Mr. Kirby (Cat. Dim-u. Lep. p. 285) both take the coutnu-y 

 view. Mr. Scudder (Proc. Am. Ac. Ai't ifc Sci. vol. s. p. 270, 1875) gives the species haquinus (here included in the gei'us 

 Abisara) as the type of Taxila, but this is not borne out by the origmal describers of the genus, who give that species 

 as a varietal form only of Tax it a. 



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