i82 NYMPHALID.E. NYMTHALIN^. ABROTA. 



Description: "Male. Utperside dark fuscous. Fommng with some very obscure 

 and slightly paler markings in cell ; an oblique discal bluish-white macular fascia, with the 

 margins pale bluish, commencing immediately beneath apex of cell and between the second 

 and third median nervules, and terminating about middle of inner margin ; two subapical 

 whitish spots separated by the upper discoidal nervule, followed beneath the second discoidal 

 uervule by a third and very small spot, and two submarginal series of linear spots placed 

 between the nervules, the inner one more or less whitish, the outer entirely pale fuscous. 

 Ilindw'ing with a transverse bluish-white fascia, margined with pale bluish near base ; 

 an outer discal series of small linear whitish spots placed between the nervules, and 

 a submarginal, narrow, pale fuscous, and somewhat macular fascia. Underside pale 

 olivaceous-brown. Foieiving with the pale whitish spots as above, but larger, the two 

 submarginal series of linear spots almost totally pale violaceous, and with an irregular 

 cellular streak, a spot at end of cell and one beneath cell between the first median nervule 

 and submedian nervure pale violaceous ; three slightly oblique dark castaneous linear 

 spots partly crossing cell, and two rounded contiguous spots of the same colour beneath cell 

 near base ; a fuscous spot near cell between second and first median nervules ; three longitudinal 

 fuscous streaks divided by the discoidal nervules, followed beneath by a series of linear spots 

 of the same colour placed between the nervules. Hindiaing with the whitish markings as 

 above, but broader ; the submarginal fascia pale violaceous ; a basal curved whitish fascia, 

 between which and the medial fascia are some linear dark castaneous markings, and a series 

 of dark castaneous spots placed before the outer discal pale fascia ; abdominal margin 

 pale greenish, ^i?^ both above and beneath more or less concolourous with wings; fvnora 

 greyish white; tibiis 2,x\.^ tarsi pale fuscous. Female. Similar to the male above. Forewing 

 with the subapical spots larger ; the cell with the base castaneous, and the discal fascii?e to both 

 to/«^j rather broader and almost quite without the bluish margins. Underside the colour is 

 reddish-ochraceous, instead of olivaceous-brown, the darker markings castaneous, excepting the 

 fuscous spots near the posterior angle of the forewing ; pale markings as on underside of 

 male, but the discal fascice broad as above."' 



"As Mr. Butler remarks (1. c.) ' In the examples from Malacca the discoidal white streak 

 of the forewing is reduced to one or two dots, connected l)y a pale brown streak.' These 

 white spots are altogether absent from the Penang specimen figured, but are present in other 

 Province Wellesley specimens. Bornean typical specimens have a whitish streak and two 

 whitish spots in the cell of the forewing." {Distant, I.e.) 



I possess two males of A. a7nhard from Penang which differ from A, nivifera in the 

 forewing in having the discal macular band placed more upright, and consisting of four instead 

 of three spots, the spot in the submedian interspace is much narrower and its edges even, 

 not constricted in the middle as it is in A. nivijera; the discal band of the hindwing on the 

 underside is also more even, narrowed to a point at the submedian nervure, but as broad 

 at the costal nervure as it is in the middle ; in A. nivifera it is narrow at both ends and does 

 not reach the costal nervure anteriorly ; the discoidal streak too in the forewing is more or 

 less obsolete, while in A. nivijera it is very broad and prominent. The underside is altogether 

 very similar, but in A, atiikara, the interruptions of the discoidal streak are marked with 

 brown lines. 



Genus 76.— ABHOTA, Moore. (Plate XXIV). 



Abrota, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep Mus. E. I C, vol. i, p. 176 (1857). 



" Head, of moderate size, tufted in front. Eyes, prominent, naked. Antennce, long, 

 filiform at the base, gradually thickening to a slender cylindric club. Palpi, elevated above 

 the level of the eyes, hairy, the hairs at the base, side, and in front, long. Thorax, robust, 

 clothed with long hairs. Abdomen, of moderate size. Forewing, elongate-trigonate ; costal 

 maroi,iho\A\y curved ; apex slightly rounded; outer margin somewhat straight [usually dis- 

 tinctly curved] in the male, concave in the female, slightly waved, two-thirds the length of 

 the costal margin ; inner margin slightly concave, rather longer than the outer. Costal nervure 

 thick at the base, extending to beyond the middle of the costa ; subcostal nervure with the 



