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Kallimas from the Western Himalayas. The underside does not agree with Mr. Moore'a 

 description, but as the colouration and markings are protective and variable, this feature 

 does not seem an important one for specific distinction. 



Below will be found descriptions of the three species which I consider to be inseparable 

 from K. boisduvali* 



The next group contains but a single species which has the band white instead of fulvous ; 

 it is confined to the Andaman Isles. 



Second Croup. With oblique band white in both sexes, 



555- Eallima albofasciata, Moore. 



K. albofasciata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1877, p. 584 ; idem, id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, p, 13. 

 Habitat : South Andamans (Port Blair). 

 Expanse : 3*2 to 4-1 inches. 



Description: " Upperside glossy greyish indigo-blue, /'(^r^zcm^ with a median, oblique, 

 cream-white band with irregular borders ; hind part of wing indigo-blue, tinged with purplish 

 lilac above posterior angle ; apex broadly blue-black, with a small bluish-white subapical spot ; 

 a dark-bordered bluish-white diaphanous spot on middle of the disc ; a submarginal, sinuous, 

 blue-black line. Hindioing, indigo-blue, tinged with purplish lilac along upper part of 

 exterior margin ; costa brownish ; a submarginal, sinuous, blue-black line. Body greenish. 

 Underside, mottled greyish ochreous, black-speckled, varied with confluent brighter fascise 

 on outer half, a pale-bordered dusky line from apex to tail ; a subapical and discal spot on 

 foreioing, and imperfect ocelli on hindidng.'' {Moore, 1. c. in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.) 



The late Mr. de Roepstorff sent numerous specimens of this species to the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. As usual no two specimens are similarly marked on the underside, but present 

 every shade of colour and diversity of marking to simulate dead leaves, It is a very distinct 

 species, 



Third Group, With oblique band blue in both sexes. 

 The third group contains six species according to Mr. Moore, to which a seventh from 

 Bhutan has been added by myself: This group seems to be confined to the true Indian 

 region, the Andaman Isles producing a modified form of it with the band almost white 

 instead of bluish-white as in the continental species. Omitting the two specimens I possess 

 from Bhutan, I have only seventeen specimens in all of this group, not nearly sufficient to 

 enable me to work them out. A female from the Western Ghats (Khandalla), one from 



* Kallima huttoni, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, P- 12. Habitat : Masuri, N.-W. Himalayas. 

 Expanse : Male TinA female, 3'2S inches. Description : Allied to A', inachis. " Distinguished by \.)\<tforeiui>ig 

 being truncated exteriorly and the apex not prolonged. Forewing, with the fulvous band narrow and continued 

 to the marginal angle, its_ upper or apical border less undulated, being nearly even in some specimens ; basal 

 area bright deep dusky vinous blue. Discal hyaline spot minute. Hindiving\ix\^\X. deep dusky vinous blue. 

 Underside, deep chestnut-brown, with greyish-purple fascias ; rib-line prominent." (A[ciO}-e, 1. c.) 



The Indian Museum, Calcutta, possesses a single female specimen from Masuri which exactly agrees with 

 the above description, the apex of the forewing being produced but very slightly. 



ICallima ramsayi, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1S79, p. 12. Habitat : Nepal, Khatmandu. Expanse: 

 Male and female, 3'40 inches. Description : Allied to K'. uiachis. "Distinguished by its very dark and 

 prominent markings. Forewing, with short sharp-pointed apex ; the upper or apical border of fulvous band very 

 irregular ; the outer marginal parallel sinuous line very prominent ; a single large discal hyaline spot, basal area 

 very dark iron-grey blue. Hindwing, very dark iron-grey blue. Fk.m.vle, with the exterior margin of the 

 foreiuing more convex hindward and at posterior angle, and the exterior border of the hiudiuing fulvous- 

 brown. Underside, chestnut-brown ; sparsely speckled, and with pale ochreous fasciae ; rib-line prominent." 

 {Moore, 1. c.) 



There is a single male from Sikkim in Colonel Lang's collection which agrees on the upperside with 

 Mr. Moore's description of this species. The underside is marked quite differently, but this is a matter of no 

 importance in my opinion. 



Kalliina atkinsoni, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 10. Habitat : Darjiling. Expanse : Female, 

 3"62 inches. Description: " Femalb. Outline of wings as in A". i«.r^<7«/. Uppkrside, similar to /T. ^K^/(7«t", 

 but the fulvous band narrOA^er, discal hyaline spot smaller and slender ; blue of b.ise and on the hitidxving of 

 a purple-violet tint. Underside, chestnut-brown, numerously speckled with dark brown ; fascias greyish." 

 (Moore, I. c.) 



As I have never seen the female of either A'. ^«.ri'(7«/ or A'. /^^riT^-^iViT, lam unable to give any indication 

 as to the outline of K. atkiiisoni, but according to Mr. Moore's key (ante) it is the same as that of A', limborgii. 

 The description of the markings also is useless uuless one has specimens of A', buxtoiu with which to com- 

 pare them, 



