324 LEMONIIDyE. NEMEOBIIN^. ABISARA. 



in the male on the UPPERSTDE being paler plum-colour, the fomviug showing the 

 transverse discal fascia, and the khtdwin;^ the apical and anal black spots ; the frmale on 

 the UPPERSIDK is also paler purple-brown, the inner discal band is angled at the middle of 

 its inner border on both winos, and is only slightly paler at its costal end. On the under- 

 SIDE the discal bands are angled in the middle, the inner band being narrowly bordered with 

 brownish white at its costal end only in the male, its entire length in the female." 



" An entirely different insect from the Andaman A. bifasciata, Moore." (^Moore, 1. c.) 

 A. angulata can hardly be said to be "an entirely different insect" from A. bifasciata ; in the 

 male of the latter species the pale bands on the upperside of the forewing are slightly more 

 prominent, on the underside also they are more prominent, wider and more Innately macular, 

 the ground-colour is also paler ; in the female the bands on the upperside, especially anteriorly, 

 are more prominent, being wider and paler. All the above-given points of distinction are 

 really very slight, and without knowing the localities from which the specimens come, it 

 would be difficult to distinguish between some specimens oi A. angulata and A. bifasciata. 



In Major Marshall's collection is a long series of this species taken by Captain C. T. 

 Bingham in different parts of Upper Tenasserim. The species is very close to, if indeed 

 separable ixQ\\\ A . snffusa ; the males are somewhat darker and richer coloured, the discal 

 bands in the female both above and below more distinct. One male from the Donat Range 

 has the inner discal band on the underside of the forewing prominently outwardly defined 

 with white, showing in this respect an approach to A. abnormis. The presence or absence 

 of the black spots on the upperside of the hindwing is very inconstant. 



613. Abisara aTanormis, Moore. 



A. abnormis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1883, p. 532, pi. xlix, fig. 3, male. 



Habitat : Moulmein, 



Expanse : 12 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside, both wings dark plum-colour. Foreivino m{\\ a 

 series of distinct whitish spots outwardly bordering the medial dark angular fascia, its lower 

 border pale, and the submarginal fascia also distinctly pale. Hindwing less angular on 

 middle of the exterior margin, the apical and anal black spots very indistinct. Underside 

 with a very distinct white angular medial fascia crossing both wins;s ; the submarginal line 

 on foicivirig also whitish and slender. Hindiving with a continuous marginal row of black 

 conical white-bovdered spots." (Moore, I. c.) 



In Major Marshall's collection is a male specimen of this species from Rangoon, which 

 differs only from Mr. Moore's description in having three anterior and two posterior black 

 spots on the underside of the hindwing, the spots on the median interspaces as usual being of 



Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 189, n. 2, pi. xviii, figs. 10. male ; 11, female (1883). Habitat : Zambesi, Nyassa, 

 «■ Andaman Isles, Province Wellesley, Sungei Ujong, Malacca, Perak, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 

 iExp*NSE : Male, i'7 to rS ■.female, i-6 to I'S inches. Dksckiption : •' Male. Upperside, both ^uings dark 

 reddish-brown. Underside. ^<7//i w/«^i somewhat paler. Aorcw/w^ crossed by two pale fasciae on the apical 

 half and with a submarginal pale linear fiscia, outwardly bordered with dark castaneous and becoming obsolete 

 at apex. Hindtuiiig with two pale fascia; as on the forewing, but curved and wider apart, the outer fascia con- 

 taining three apical black spots surrounded with whitish and separated by the subcostal nervules, and with 

 two smaller spots near anal angle ; a pale and darkly bordered submarginal fascia as on the forewing, but 

 which from apex of upper median nervule (where the outer margin is obtusely angulated) to anal angle is again 

 outwardly bordered with paler colouration. Femalb. Wings generally much paler in hue than in the male. 

 Fore-Ming with a distinct subapical transverse subviolaceous or whitish fascia, and with the submarginal linear 

 fascia distinct as beneath. Hindwing with the spots and fascia:, both above and beneath, as on underside of 

 male ; the subapical pale fascia on the forewing being broader beneath than above." i • i 



"The females of this species vary considerably in the size and distinctive character of the pale subapical 

 fascia to the forewing. The most strongly marked or albinic specimens in my collection are from Province 

 Wellesley, whilst the most melanic forms I possess are from Malacca and North Borneo. The most interesting 

 fact in connection with the geographical distribution of this species is its presence, unmodified and distinct, in 

 Eastern Africa. The late Mr. Hewitson received it from the Zambesi, and subsequently it reached my hands 

 contained in a small collection made in the neighbourhood of Lake Nyassa." i^Distant,\. c.) 



In my collection is a single male specimen of this species from Malacca which is entirely unmarked on the 

 upperside ; another male however in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Perak, has the two discal pale bands 

 of the underside of the forewing showing through, the anterior portion of both of them, but especially the outer, 

 is widened out into a broad dilTused fascia above the third median nervule ; and there are two subapical aud two 

 subanal black spots on the upperside of the hindwing. These two specimens caught in a limited area are probably 

 a'j distinct as any two described from India by Mr. Moore. 



