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In India they are met with all along the Himalayas, in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar, and Upper 

 Tenasseiim ; in Orissa, and the Eastern Ghats as far south as the Godavery, also in the Western 

 Ghats, South India, Ceylon, and the Andaman Isles, again in Sumatra and Java, but not in 

 the Nicobars or Malay Peninsula as far as is known. 



In a recent monograph of the genus Kallima (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 9), 

 Mr. F. Moore has divided the Indo-Malayan species into four groups based on the colour of 

 the oblique transverse band of the forewing, as follows : — 



With oblique band fulvous in male, bluish-white in female. 



With oblique band fulvous in both sexes. 



With oblique band white in both sexes. 



With oblique band blue in both sexes. 

 The group in which the colour of the band differs in the sexes does not concern us, it con- 

 tains only two species, K. paralekta and K. hewiisoni, neither of which are likely to occur 

 in India, the first is a native of Java, and the locality in which the second occurs is unknown ; 

 brief descriptions of them are appended.* 



The remaining three groups are represented in this country. Of the first of these in 

 which the band is fulvous in both sexes K. inachis is the type ; it contains nine species accord- 

 ing to Moore, of which all, with the exception of K. hiachis and K. hnegelii, are new species 

 described by him either in the paper quoted above or in the Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. for 1878. 

 He gives the following key for discriminating them : — 



A. Forewing produced ; oblique Ijelow apex. 



a. Discal spot prominent. K. luxioni, Sumatra. 



K. limborgii, Tenasseriin. 

 h. Discal spot not prominent. K. atkinsoni, Darjiling. 



B. Forewing truncate at apex. 



a. Discal spot prominent. K. boisdiivali, Kasowli. 



h. Discal spot not prominent. K. huttoni, Masuri. 



C. Forewing acuminate at apex. 



a. Discal spot prominent. K. rantsayi, Nepal. 



D. Forewing prolonged at apex. 



a, Discal spot prominent. K. inachis, Sikkim, 



K. hnegelii, Kashmir. 



b. Discal spot not prominent. K. buckleyi, N.-W. Himalayas. 



This key I confess I am unable to follow ; all the species, so far as I know, have the 

 forewing " oblique below apex ;" the difference between " forewing produced" and "forewing 

 prolonged at apex" is not very clear ; and the difference between " forewing truncate at apex" 

 in the only sense in which truncation is apparent in this group, and " forewing acuminate at 

 apex" is also not apparent, for the truncation consists of a cutting off of the prolongation, 

 which leaves the apex acuminate ; and the minor divisions rest on a character which, I am 

 convinced, is inconstant in every species. 



As will be seen from the remarks I have added to the original descriptions, I have been 

 able to find specimens which more or less agree with the descriptions of all except K. 

 atkinsoni. The most important distinction between them appears to be the truncation of the 

 forewing in three of them (A', boisdiivali, K. huttoni and K. ramsayi'), and the consequent 

 slight prolongation of the apex of that wing. This however seems to be a very inconstaut 

 character, some specimens of K. litnborgii showing it almost as prominently lengthened as 



* With the ba7id fulvous in male, bluish-zuhiie in female. 



Kallima (Paphia) paralekta, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E I. C, pi. vi, fig. ^.viale (1829) ; id., Moore, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 9. Habitat : Java. Expanse : 3-87 inches. Description : " Malb. Foreunng 

 with an oblique uniformly narrow fulvous band, its inner border terminating at posterior angle ; basal area 

 and hind-wing deep blue. Female with bluish-purple white band ; basal area and /"Wjww^ dark rufou.s- 

 brown ; discal hyaline spot in both sexes small and oval." {Moore, 1. c.) 



Kallima hewiisoni, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1S79, p. 9; /i^./<»ra/ie,5/'a:, Doubleday and Hewitson, 

 Gen. Diurn. Lep , vol. ii, p. 325, n. 3, pi. Hi, fig. 3, female (\?.so). Habitat: Unknown ; (Himalayas ^. 

 Expanse: 4-0 inches. Description: "Female. Similar to A. paralekta, differing in the shape of the 

 bluish-purple white band and absence of the discal hyaline spot. "_ 



"Although the ' Himalaya' is given by Doubleday .and Hewitson as the locality of this species, I doubt its 

 correctness. There is no locility label on the type specimen." (Moore, \. c.) In this instance the habitat 

 'Himahiya' has evidently been quoted for this species by those authors because they convidered the /<i7v»/t--{V« 

 of the ' Genera' to be identical with A', horsfiddii, which was described by Kollar from the Himalayas. 



