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pi. xxxi,figs. I, la, tnale ; xb, female (1790), described from China. StoU's figures are very 

 rough, so I am quite unable to say in what particulars his species differs from Indian ones, 

 and until almost recently his name was used for the Indian species. The style of markings is 

 identical in all the forms described from India, except perhaps A. bifasciala, which has the bands 

 on the underside more lunately macular than the rest. If the localities of the specimens are 

 known they can be named. Northern Indian specimens must be A. suffusa, because no other 

 forms have been described from there ; similarly specimens caught in Tenasserim must be 

 angulata (^A. abnonnis is, in my opinion, an easily recognisable occasional variety of this form) ; 

 specimens from the Andamans must be A. bifasciata ; if caught in Ceylon they must be 

 A. pninosa, but in South India confusion is likely to arise, if caught in the extreme south 

 they will be A. pntiwsa, but further north they may be A. prnnosa, A. fraterna, or A. sitffnm. 

 A, pninosa may typically be recognised by its larger size and intense purple shot in the male. 

 Mr. Moore has pointed out what he considers to be the points of difference between A- pninosa 

 and yf. /rrt/ifrwrt!, also between the Tenasserim A. angulata and A. siiffiisa, but what the 

 differences are between A. sttftisa and A. fraterna I am quite unable to say, unless the inner 

 band on the upperside of the forewing being angulated in A. suffusa and rounded in A. fraterna 

 should prove sufficient to distinguish them. To sum up the six species described from India. 

 In my opinion A. bifasciata might perhaps be kept distinct, though I possess a female specimen 

 from Akyab in British Burma which is almost indistinguishable from it;A. pninosa is 

 typically very distinct, and that name might be used for Ceylon and Travancore specimens ; 

 but all the rest should, I think, be named A. eckeriiis until at any rate the differences, if any, 

 between that species and the Indian ones are pointed out, when the latter might be called 

 A. kausambi, which is the oldest of the names applied to the Indo-Malayan forms. In the 

 detailed descriptions below I have given Mr. Moore's localities only for each in the headings, 



611. Abisara Ijifasciata, Moore. (Plate XXIV, Fig. 118 $). 



A, bifasciata, 'iAoQXft,Vxoc.Zoo\. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 587, pi. Iviii, fig. i, female; id., Wood-Mason, 

 and de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 233, n. 27 (1881). 



Habitat : South Andamans. 



Expanse : <?, i7to 2'2 ; ?, 2"o to 2*2 inches. 



Description : "From the Malayan A. kaiisainbi* Felder, it differs on the upperside in the 

 discal transverse bands being sinuous, which are prominent in the female, and in that 

 sex the two bands on ^\z foreiulng 2^xt separated and broadly white anteriorly ; the upper and 

 lower spots on the /i/w^zcm^ are also larger. Underside, the bands are broader and sinuous,, 

 and on the hindiving there are but two anterior spots instead of three." (^Moore, 1. c) Regarding 

 this latter point, the two male specimens of A. kansainbi I possess have three spots on the 

 underside of the hindvving anteriorly, while all the South Andaman male specimens in our 

 collections possess but two ; in the females from the Andamans, however, there are always 

 three spots. 



There are numerous specimens of this species in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, collected 

 at Port Blair by the late Mr, A. de Roepstorff, and one specimen from Kar Niccbar, As 

 no second specimen has been received from the latter locality, it is probable that the first one 

 was captured in the Andamans, 



The figure shows both upper and undersides of a male Andaman example in the Indiaa 

 Museum, Calcutta. 



612. Abisara angulata, Moore, 



A. angulata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond , 1878, p. 833. 



Habitat : Above Ahsown, Hatsiega, Naththoung to Paboga, Upper Tenasserimi, 



Expanse : 1*92 inches. 



Description : "From A. katisa/nbi,* Felder, of the Malay Peninsula, this species differs 



* Abisara kaitsaviH, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 397, n 11 (i860) ; id., Moore, Proc Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 587 ; id., Butler, 'I'raus. Linn. Soc, Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 5.45i n. 2 (1877) ; id.. 



