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tfiey all have the discoidal streak twice or thrice indented on its upper edge, and more or less 

 distinctly interrupted with brown or yellow lines ; the bands of the underside have their edges 

 less distinct, and more or less, sometimes completely, suffused with yellow ; where the yellow 

 suffusion of the bands is complete the interruption of the discoidal streak is most obscure, 

 sometimes barely traceable on the upperside. 



470. Athyma inara, Doubleday, Ilewitson. 



Limenitis iKara, Doubleday, Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. it, pi. x.\xiv, fig. 3 (1850); Athyma inara, 

 Westwood, id., p. 274, n. 12. 



Habitat : Northern India ( IVeshvood^. 

 Expanse; 2-5 inches. 



Description : Upperside black. Fontdng with a narrow white discoidal streak 

 tinged with orange, with two white spots beyond, three conjoined subapical white spots, an 

 oblique very wide discal white band, a submarginal irregular orange band, a marginal fine 

 pale line. Hindwing with a broad subbasal white band, and a nearly equally broad sub- 

 marginal orange band, a submarginal suffused pale fascia. Body with a pale band at the 

 base of the abdomen. 



The above description is taken from the figure in the " Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera." 

 It differs from all the specimens I have seen of the next species in having both the white 

 and orange bands very much wider. The exact locality of the type specimen is unknown to 

 me ; in the Genera " Northern India" alone is given. 



471- Athyma inarina, Butler, 



A, inarina, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xvi, p. 304, n. 37 (1885) ; A. i^tara, 

 Moore (nee Doubleday, Hewitson), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, pi. i, fig. 6. 



Habitat : Sikkim, Assam, Cachar, Sylhet, Orissa, South India, 



Expanse ; $, 2-4 to 27 ; ? , 2-8 to 32 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, det/i twVc^j black, the white discal markings margined 

 with pale iridescent blue. Forezuing with a narrow obscure whitish orange-tinged streak in 

 the cell (obsolete in a Wynaad specimen), a prominent round white spot at its end, with a 

 whitish often obscure spot beyond it (entirely absent in a Wynaad specimen). Three 

 increasing subapical oblique white spots, divided only by the nervules, sometimes with a very 

 fine white line above ; a discal white band composed of four conjoined spots, the upper 

 one very small, the second oval and largest, the third indented at the sides, the fourth linear. 

 A submarginal irregular orange band, widest at the apex, more or less whitish towards 

 the inner angle, followed by a pale marginal line. In the Wynaad example the anterior 

 portion only is orange, below the upper discoidal nervule it is pale brown. Hbuhoinq with a 

 discal white band from the costal to the submedian nervure, narrow above the first subcostal 

 nervule (which is pure white for a greater portion of its length). A submarginal series of orange 

 lunules decreasing to the costal nervure, very narrow in the Wynaad specimen, with a terminal 

 whitish spot below the submedian nervure. An even narrow pale marginal line. Underside 

 fornving ferruginous, the white markings much as above, the discal ones inwardly marked with 

 blackish streaks between the veins, a prominent rounded black spot below the base of the first 

 median nervule, two subapical ones divided by the upper discoidal nervule, one in the middle of 

 the second median interspace and two others conjoined in the submedian interspace. A sub- 

 marginal and marginal irregular macular violaceous band from the lower discoidal nervule to 

 the inner angle. Hiiuhmng ferruginous, with a basal curved whitish streak above the 

 costal nervure, a discal white band, beyond which are a series of round black spots 

 between the nervules, the submarginal lunules as above but whitish, except the two upper ones, 

 which are inwardly broadly ferruginous ; a marginal pale violaceous line ; abdominal area greenish- 

 white. Cilia black, with small white points in the middle of the interspaces. Body black above, 

 with an iridescent bluish-white baud at th; base of the abdomen and across the thorax, below 



