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b". Discoidal streak very short, with a large spot beyond in the cell. 



464. A. ABIASA, Mergui, Malacca, Java. 



c^. Underside with no violet sulTusion ; two rows of black spots along inner edge 

 of submarginal band ; five or six small black spots at base of hindwing. 



465. A. SULPITIA, Western Himalayas, China. 



466. A. SANKARA, Masuri. 



b. Ground-colour black, male with the discal band on upperside margined with pale blue. 



a', Male with the submarginal band brown throughout, narrow ; the discal band broad, even, 

 white, well-separated from the white subapical spots. 

 <i^. Male with the discal band ending at third median nervule of forewing, no 

 orange markings on upperside. Female black with white markings as 

 in the previous group.* 

 a^. Male with the discoidal streak obsolete on upperside ; twice inter- 

 rupted on underside in both sexes. 



467. A. SELENOPHORA, Himalayas, Assam, Upper Burma, South 



India. 

 b^. Male with the discoidal streak brown on upperside ; undivided on 

 underside in both sexes. 



468. A. ZEROCA, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Upper Burma. 



^, Male with the discal band ending at second median nervule of forewing ; the 

 discoidal streak and a subapical spot orange, the streak undivided in 

 both sexes. Female black with orange markings,* 



469. A. CAMA, Kumaon, Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Upper Burma. 



i'. Male with the submarginal band orange throughout, Female black with orange 

 markings. 

 a"^. Male with bands on upperside broad. 



470. A. iNARA, Northern India. 

 b^. Male with bands on upperside narrower. 



471. A. INARINA, Sikkim, Assam, Orissa, South India. 



f'. Male with the submarginal band orange at apex of forewing, the remainder and on 

 hindwing white. Female black with orange markings. 



472. A. ASITA, North India (?), Upper Tenasserim. 



473. A. SUBRATA, India (?), Mergui, Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo. 

 </'. IMale unknown. Female black with white bands partially suffused with orange. 



474. A. RUFULA, South Andamans. 



«'. Male with the submarginal band white throughout, the discoidal streak typically 

 obsolete, when present short, with no spot beyond the cell on upperside. Sexes 

 alike. 



475. A. AMHARA, Upper Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Borneo. 



The next two species are of a different aspect from the rest of the group, the white bands 

 are more distinctly macular, most of the veins dividing the bands being margined with 

 blackish, the cell of the forewing also lacks the usual discoidal streak which is found in all 

 the other species, the cell in these two being occupied by large white patches, most prominent 

 on the underside, which are separated by irregular dark bands crossing the cell transversely. 

 They are found in the hilly regions of North Eastern India, and again in the Western Ghats 

 of South India, 



460. Athyaia maliesa, Moore. 



A. ntahesa, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C , vol. i, p. 176, n. 360, pi. \a, fig. 7 

 (1857) ; id., Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, p. 15, n. 14; id., Butler, Ann. and Mag, of Nat. Hist, 

 fifth series, vol. xvi, p. 304, n. 36 (1885). 



Habitat : Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, South India. 



Expanse : 2-6 to 3* i inches. 



Description : " Upperside smoky-black. Fore-wittg with a green gloss in some lights ; 

 three oblique white ovate spots from subcostal nervure, one-third from the apex ; two 

 white spots in the middle of the wing, the upper one very small, and two white spots on 

 middle of posterior margin, the upper oval, the lower narrow ; two indistinct white 

 spots in discoidal cell, and some indistinct greenish spots at the base of the wing ; a marginal 



* For the points of distinction between the white banded females of this group and the white banded 

 species of the preceding groups, and also for the points of distinction between the various orange banded 

 females, see detailed remarks on the species. 



