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the colour of the ground defined outwardly with white. I think A. abnormis will 

 hereafter be found to be an occasional variety or aberration of A . angulata. 



614. Aljisara SUffUSa, Moore. 



^. ^?</7;«a, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1882, p. 244; id., Rothney, Ent. Month. Mag., vol. x\x, 

 p. 34 (18S2) ; Sospita ec/tcrius, Moore (nee Cramer), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1865, p. 771. 



Habitat: Chumba, 10,000 feet (Moore); Earrackpore (Rothney), 



Expanse : $ , ibz ; ? , i 5 inches. 



Description: " AXViq^l io A. angitlata, Moore. Smaller, the male being of a deeper 

 tint, with the fasciaa straighter and suffused with grey. Female of a much duller colour 

 and suffused with grey, the medial transverse dark fascia less angular on both wings, and the 

 outer fascia; much less distinct, broader and more suffused." (Moore, I.e.) 



I possess specimens of this species from the Kangra Valley (Hocking), Masuri, Fyzabad, 

 RIalda, Calcutta, Bhutan, Orissa, Karwar and Rutnagherry in Bombay, Ootacamund and 

 Akyab. It is more than probable that a long series of specimens will show that A. siiffiisa 

 merges into A.fratema in Western India, A. pnmosa in the extreme south of the Peninsula, 

 and into A. angnlata in Upper Tenasserim and Burma. All these supposed distinct species 

 may be recognizable at their head-quarters, but on the boundary lines separating them it is 

 probable that the distinctive characters of each are lost. 



615. ATaisara fraterna, Moore. 



A.fratema, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1883, p, 532. 



Habitat : Bombay. 



Expanse: <?, i'62; ?, i"5 inches. 



Description: "Nearest to the Ceylonese A. pmnosa, but smaller, Male duller- 

 coloured, fascia broader. Female of a brighter red colour, the transverse medial dark 

 fascia more decidedly angular in the middle, the two outer fascice and the marginal line 

 whitish." (Moore, 1. c.) 



In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, are two female specimens of this species from Karinja, 

 Bombay, which agree with the above description, but others from Bombay in Major Marshall's 

 and my collection agree exactly with Calcutta specimens of A, suffusa and some Ceylon ones 

 of A, prunosa, 



616. Aljisara pmnosa, Moore. 



.(4. />-««(7.f<r, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond,, 1879, p. 137; idem, id., Lep, Cey., vol. i, p. 69, pi. xxxiii, 

 figs. 3, male ; 3a, female; 3^, larva sxiA pupa (1881). 



Habitat : Ceylon. 



Expanse : i'25 to 175 inches. 



Description. "Differs from the Malacca species, /^, /(-^/w^wW,* Felder, in the male 

 having more prominent darker bands on the forewing and prominent black spots on the 

 hindiving. Female differs also in its paler colour, and uniformly pale transverse discal bands 

 without any trace of white at their costal end." {Moore, 1. c. in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.) 

 " Male. Upperside, fo//^ 7c/m_rJ deep brownish-purple, with slightly paler transverse discal 

 fascice. Himhving with two subapical and two smaller subanal pale-bordered conical black 

 spots margined outwardly by a delicate white line, and two intervening pale conical marks. 

 Female duller coloured, the discal fasciaj and a marginal line paler, and more distinct ; conical 

 spots on the hindwing prominent. Underside paler, similar in tint and markings to the 

 upperside." 



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