l84 NYMrilALID/E. NYMPIIALIN/E. ABROTA. 



Female blackish brown. For^oi/ig \\'\th ti streak from the base along the lower part of the 

 discoidal cell to the middle of the wing, with a dentate mark on the disco-cellular nervule ; 

 two outwardly oblique spots from near the apex ; a broad band from the middle of the disc, 

 inwardly oblique, to posterior margin, and indistinct submarginal series of small spots, pale 

 ferruginous ; also two small outwardly oblique white spots at the apex. Himhving with broad 

 inner and narrower outer slightly-curved bands, pale ferruginous. Cilia with small white 

 spots. Underside pale chocolate-brown, with a patch on the costal margin near the apex, 

 the space about the disc of the forewing and across the middle of the hindwing, yellowish ; 

 an ill-defiaed streak from near the apex of the forewing to the middle of the abdominal 

 marf^in [of the hindwing] ; zig-zag lines across the disc, and patches about the base of both 

 wings, whitish ; some spots at the apex of the forewing white." {Moore, 1. c. ) 



The male of A. mints (of which I have seen three specimens only in Colonel Lang's 

 collection) is easily distinguished from the only other species of the genus by having the two 

 discal bands on the upperside of the hindwing well-separated, that wing being in fact crossed 

 by four almost equi-distant bands, of which the third from the margin is macular and com- 

 posed of decreasing rounded spots ; in A. jiitntta the wing appears to be crossed by three 

 equi-distant bands only, the middle one being divided by a somewhat lunular line of the 

 jjround-colour. The female of .-I • ««'' mj has all the bands on the upperside broad and pale 

 fulvous the discal band on the upperside of the forewing from the second median nervule 

 to the inner margin being continuous; in the female of A. juiniia the bands are narrower 

 and olive-green, the discal band on the forewing more macular, its upper portion formed of 

 a well-separated oval spot. Mr. Butler remarks (1. c.) that "the description [by Fabricius] 

 of .4 . «"V7^^ is exactly applicable to the female of Mr. Moox^ s. Ahrota ga?iga." Dr. Felder 

 also described and figured the female of this species under the name of A. conjinis. 



The figure (of the female only) shows the upperside of a Sikkim example in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta. 



477. Alirota jUmna, Moore. (Plate XXIV, Fig. iio, $ only). 



A ■ juiHiiti, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1865, p. 764, ma/e only. 



Habitat : Sikkim. 



Expanse: $, 2'9 to 3-2 ; ?, 35 to 3'9 inches. 



Description: "Male. Similar to A. gtiigu [= A. mi/us], but differs on the upper- 

 side in being of a pale yellowish ferruginous, the black markings much less defined, 

 and in having the submarginal and medial lunulated bands of the hindcuiug geminated. 

 On the underside the markings are much less prominent, the geminated sinuous 

 band being apparent as on the upperside." (^Moore, 1. c.) Female. Upperside blackish. 

 Foreiving with a streak from the base along lower part of discoidal cell to middle of wing, 

 with a dentate black mark on lower disco-cellular nervule ; an oblique, macular, subapical 

 streak, with three small white spots beyond it ; a rounded spot in first median interspace, 

 an irregular mark in the interspace below, which is continued widely on inner margin ; 

 a submarginal increasing macular band from lower discoidal nervule to inner angle, all 

 sufifused olive-green. Hindwing with similarly coloured discal and submarginal broad bands. 

 Underside marked much as in the male, but the ground-colour is paler, the markings darker 

 and more suffused. 



In my opinion (though the matter is still open to doubt) Mr. Moore originally correct- 

 ly determined the sexes of A. tniriis when describing that species under the name of 

 A. ^^aiiga. In describing A. jtimna he seems to have come to the opposite conclusion 

 (though he does not say so in so many words, nor does he quote his figure of the female 

 A. g^nga as applying to that sex of his >1. y«w;w as he should have done), as he describes 

 the female as follows : — "Differs from that sex of A. gauga on the upperside in being 

 brown, and in having the markings ferruginous; whereas in A. gauga\~ A. mints] the 

 upperside is olive-brown, and the markings suffiued olive-gieen." 



