30 LYCANID. ALLOTINUS. 
Of the Indian species [of. this group], 4. drumila, Moore, is very much like 4. mudtistrigatus ; 
it likewise has the legs cylindrical, but the third subcostal nervule is emitted a little beyond the 
end of the cell.” (Doherty, 1. c.) 
“This species, though structurally different, according to Mr. Doherty, from the last 
[4. drumila], is very like it in general appearance, and I had some difficulty in knowing 
whether Moore’s description of the male of 4. drumila does not apply to A. multistrigatus. 
The position of the third subcostal nervule and the shape of the hind margin of the forewing 
distinguish them,” (Z/zwes, 1. c.) 
With reference to Mr. Doherty's remark regarding the position of the third subcostal 
nervule in the forewing in this species, it is given off very far beyond, not at the apex of the 
discoidal cell; the upper discoidal nervule is given off at the apex of the cel!.. The neuration 
in A. drumila and A. multistrigatus is exactly the same. 
Mr. Otto Méller possesses three males and one female, the latter taken in June, of this 
species from Sikkim. I have a female taken in Bhutan in August by Mr. A. V. Knyvett’s 
native collectors, and another from Cherrapunji taken in September. 
The figures of both sexes were taken from examples from Sikkim in Mr. Otto Moller’s 
collection, and shew both sides. 
Allotinus unicolor, Felder, has been described as below* from Singapore.’ It does not 
appear to have been found in the Malay Peninsula since it was first met with there by Mr. 
Wallace. 
626. Allotinus alkamah, Distant. 
A. alkamah, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 452, n. 8, pl. xliv, fig. 3, szaZe (1886). 
HaBiraT : Rangoon, Mergui, Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo, 
ISXPANSE): 6, 1705 3) , 1-4 inches. 
DEscrRIPTION: “MALE. Allied to A. sudviolaceus, Felder [Reise Novara, Lep., vol. ii, 
p. 286, n. 368, pl. xxxv, figs. 27, 28, male (1865), from Java], from which it differs on the 
UPPERSIDE of the forewing by the much larger violaceous area, and consequent considerable 
diminution in the width of the blackish margin to the same.. UNDERSIDE, Jdofh+ wings as in 
A, subviolaceus (judging from Felder’s figure), but having some distinct short transverse 
darker strige. FEMALE. UPpPersIDg, doth wings as in the male, but the Aindwing paler and 
more violaceous. UNDERSIDE, doth wimgs asin the male,” (Diéstant, |. c.) 
Of this species I have seen but a single female specimen taken by Lieut. E. Y. Watson 
at Rangoon. It is the second smallest species of the genus occurring within strict Indian limits, 
and has the disc and base of both wings on the upperside in both sexes violaceous ; the female 
has the hindwing suffused with whitish ; both wings have a prominent linear black disco-cellular 
spot. The markings of the underside are nearer to those of Paragerydus horsfieldi, Moore, 
than to the other species of Al/otinus, but they are more irregular in 4. alkamah, and ochreous 
rather than brown. 
627. Allotinus nivalis, Druce. (PLATE XXVI, Fic. 159 $). 
Miletus nivalis, Druce, Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 348, n. 4 3 Gerydus nivalis ? Butler, Trans. Linn. 
Soc, Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 546, n. 2 (1877); Paragerydus nivalis, Distant, Rhop. Malay., 
p. 207, n. 2, pl. xxii, fig. 11, female (1884) ; Logania substrigosa, Moore, Journ, A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p, 
22 (1884) ; idem, id., Journ. Linn. Soc. _Lond., Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 39, pl. iii, fig. 8, /emzale (1886). 
* Allotinus unicolor, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. ii, p.’286, n. 369 (1865); id., Distant. Rhop. Malay., 
p. 209, n.1 (1884) ; id., Distant and Pryer, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol, xix, p. 266, n. 106 
(1887). Hapitar: Singapore (Feder); Nias Island (AhezZ); N. Borneo (Distant). ExpAnse : Not given. Des- 
CRIPTION: “MALE. UppErsIDE, rufescent-fuscous, darker towards the margin of the forewing. Hindwing with 
the ci/ia dull whitish, the margin before it darker. UNbDERSIDE bluish-whitish, cé/7a@ swarthy-whitish, obsoletely 
at the end of the nervules spotted with blackish-fuscous; dot wings, the internal margin of the forewing 
alone excepted, variegated finely with fuscescent, a submarginal series of small spots parallel with the margin 
fuscescent. Forewing with five irregular [avvosis] costal spots, a minute spot and a transverse litura in the cell, a 
disco-cellular fasciole, and an exterior fascia formed of six unequal spots. AWindwing with four minute basal 
spots, a pair of cellular spots, a disco-cellular irregular [avvosa] fasciole, two subcostal subbasal spots, two subcostal 
larger in the middle (the upper one more outwardly-placed), six others posterior in a series parallel with the 
margin (the two intermediate elongate, the rest equal, decreasing) and a seventh small internal hoary-brownish. 
Abdomen hoary-fuscous, whitish below.” 
‘* One specimen is the size of A. fad/ax (Felder, from Luzon], and with narrower wings than those of the 
female of A. major (Felder, from Celebes], the hindwings also are more toothed than in the latter species.” 
(Felder, \. c.) The expanse of A, fallax is about 1°3 inches. 
