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608. ATsisara fylla, Doubleday, Ilcwitson. 

 Taxilafylla, Doubleday, Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 422, n. 8, pi. Ixix, fig, 3, male (1851). 

 Habitat : Himalayas, Assam, Sylhet, Upper Burma, Upper Tenasserim. 

 Expanse : ij, I'g to 2'4 ; ? , 2-0 to 2-5 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings and cilia dark brown, Forciving with a 

 straight even straw yellow band commencing at the middle of the costa and almost reaching 

 the inner angle, its lower portion narrower and slightly recurved ; a pale brown submarginal 

 line often bearing anteriorly two minute yellow spots divided by the fourth subcostal nervule, 

 often with two additional similar spots near the margin divided by the fifth subcostal nervule, 

 and the cilia beyond white. Hindwing with a pale brown curved discal band, a series of six 

 marginal black spots inwardly defined with pale brown, and outwardly bearing a pure white dot, 

 of which the two upper ones divided by the discoidal nervule are always largest, the next two 

 divided by the second median nervule always smallest and often obsolete, the last two at the 

 anal angle placed in the submedian interspace always present. There is sometimes a seventh 

 small spot without a white dot between the subcostal nervules. Underside, both zvings paler 

 throughout, but similarly marked, except that the hind-wing has a faint subbasal line- Female 

 similarly marked to the male, but much paler, the discal band on the fomving very variable 

 in width and pure white or just tinted with palest yellow, and reaching the costa (in the 

 male it does not reach it), wider anteriorly and tapering to a point posteriorly ; the wing 

 broader, apex less produced, outer margin convex. Body concolourous with the wings 

 both above and below, the eyes with a pure white streak at the sides, the frontal tuft of the 

 head also with a pure white streak on both sides, the falpi pale brown, the atitennce 

 dark brown, annulated with white, the club with a white bar above near its tip. 



A.fylla occurs in Masuri and the Dehra Dhun ; Mr. Doherty took it at Askot, the Dhoaj 

 Eastern Kumaon, 4,000 to 7,000 feet ; it is common in Sikkim at low elevations, in Buxa, and 

 in Assam, the Naga Hills, Cherrapunji, and Sylhet ; it was taken by Captain C. T, Bingham in 

 the Upper Thoungyeen forests in Upper Tenasserim in March, and was also brought by the 

 Yunan Expedition. In shape and markings it has no near allies, and might perhaps be 

 advantageously placed in the genus Sospita of Hewitson, of which it forms the type. 



609. A"bisara neophron, Hewitson. 



Sospita vcophron, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. ii, Sospita pi. i, fig. 3 (1861); Aiisara neophron, de Niceville, 

 Joum. A. S. B., vol. Iv, pt. 2, p. 253, pi. xi, fig. 8, male (1886). 



Habitat : Sikkim, Assam, Sylhet, Upper Burma, 

 Expanse : I'S to 2-3 inches. 



Description: "Male, Upperside, 3^//« 7w«.f^ rufous-brown. Forruu'ng crossed trans- 

 versely at the middle by a broad band of white, and obliquely beyond the middle 

 by a narrow, obscure, rufous band ; the outer margin pale from the middle to the 

 anal angle, traversed by a dark line. fUndzoing tailed, crossed beyond the middle and near 

 the outer margin by waved rufous bands, two large black spots at the apex, separated by a 

 line of orange, a submarginal band of white traversed by a black line, the tail white. 

 Underside as above." (^He-witson, 1. c.) Female differs from the male only in being paler 

 throughout, the discal band of W\Qforewing usually broader, always reaching the costa (in 

 some male specimens it does not quite touch it), the lower of the two black spots on the 

 upperside of the hindwing divided by the discoidal nervule posteriorly defined with an orange 

 line, as indeed it often is in the male, two oval spots on the margin divided by the first median 

 nervule inwardly defined with whitish, outwardly by pure white, with a marginal white line 

 beyond ; cilia more or less white, 



A. neophron is not uncommon in Sikkim at low elevations ; it occurs also in Assam, 

 Sibsagar, the Naga Hills, and Sylhet, and was brought by the Yunan Expedition. 



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