178 CATALOGUE OF 



361. ABROTA GANGA, Moore {Plate Nla,fig. 1, (^ ?). 



Ahrota Ganga, n. sp. — Male : Uppek-side ferruginous : fore-ioing 

 along upper part of discoidal cell, a spot, and disco-cellular mark 

 within it, a broad oblique streak, tapering from middle of costal 

 vein to middle of lower discoidal veinlet, then extending in a zigzag 

 manner to posterior margin near the base, the space between the 

 latter and median vein only smeared, exterior and apical margin, 

 submarginal line, and smeary patches near the apex and lower part 

 of disc, black : Mnd-xving with marginal, submarginal, third and 

 fourth inner bands, black ; cilice with small white spots. Undeb- 

 SIDE dull-yellow, with duller exterior margins ; a distinct dark narrow 

 streak from near apex of fore-wing to near abdominal margin ; two 

 indistinct zigzag lines across disc, and markings about the base of 

 both wings dull-ferruginous ; from apex of fore-wing some white 

 spots. Pemale black -brown : fore-wing with streak from base along 

 lower part of discoidal cell to middle of wing, with a dentate mark 

 on disco-cellular vein ; two outward oblique spots from near apex ; 

 a broad band from middle of disc, inward oblique, to posterior mar- 

 gin, and indistinct submarginal series of small spots, pale ferruginous ; 

 also two small outward oblique white spots at the apex : liind-wing 

 with broad inner and narrower outer slightly-curved bands, pale fer- 

 ruginous ; ciliae with small white spots. Undee-side pale chocolate- 

 brown, with patch on costal margin near the apex, space about the 

 disc of fore-wing and across middle of hind-wing, yellowish ; an ill- 

 defined streak from near apex of fore-wing to middle of abdominal 

 margin ; zigzag lines across disc, and patches about base of both 

 wings, whitish ; some spots at apex of fore-wing white. Expanse of 

 male 3, female 3f inches. 



a. b. c. d. e. f. cJ ? . Darjeeling. From Indian Col- 

 lection, Exposition Universelle at Paris, 1855. 



Genus LIMENITIS, Fabricius. 

 Ltmenitis, Fabricius, Syst. Gloss. (lUiger's Mag. VI. p. 281, 1807). 



Westtvood, in Doulledag and Heioitson's Diurnal Lep. p. 274. 

 Ntmphalis, Boisduval, Ind. Meth. Eur. Lep. p. IG (1840). E. 



Doubleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. I. p. 96. 

 AccA, ^. Hiihner, Verz. beJc. Schmett. 



LiMENiTis,^. E. Doubleday, List Lep. Brit. Mm.pt. 1. p)- 90. 

 Neptts,^). Horsfield, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. t. 7,/ 8. 

 BiBLis, p. Horsfield; id. t. 8,f. 4. 



