of the Genus Adolias. 65 



and are copied from these on plate 6, fig. 2, 2 a, of the East India 

 Company's Catalogue of Lepidoptera. General Hardwicke states 

 that it feeds on Tropins aspera, and on a species of Bryonia, 



4, Adolias Phemius, E. Doubleday. (PL III. fig. 3, $ , ? .) 

 $ Itanus Phemius, E. Doubleday, MS. 



Adolias Phemius, Westvvood, in Doubleday and Hewitson's 



Diurnal Lep. p. 291, n. 13, t. 41, f. 4(1850). 

 Hab. Darjeeling. 

 In Museum East India Company, British Museum. 



Adolias Phemius. — Male. Upperside dark brown : fore-rving 

 with indistinct black submarginal band, marks within discoidal 

 cell, and two spots and large patch below the cell ; a series of 

 longitudinal narrow white lines tapering from costal margin near 

 the apex to middle of wing : hind-wing with basal two-thirds 

 blackish ; from anal angle curving broadly upward to above 

 middle of exterior margin light blue-green, the margin being 

 white, and a black line along the extreme exterior margin, which is 

 much dentated. Narrow cilise white. Underside dark brown, 

 paler at the base : fore-wing vi'xih longitudinal white lines, discoidal 

 marks and black sub-marginal band as above : hind-winrr with 

 black discoidal marks, indistinct blackish sub-marginal band ; 

 the bluish-green and white marginal band narrower, and with a 

 small black spot at anal angle ; extreme margin black, with 

 narrow white ciliae. 



Female. Upperside olive-brown : fore-wing with black dis- 

 coidal markings ; the series of longitudinal white lines wider than 

 in the male ; transverse lines blackish ; apex slightly suffused with 

 white. Underside pale brownish-buflf, greyish at the base ; dis- 

 coidal markings black ; longitudinal whitish lines more confluent 

 than above ; apex of both wings tinged with white ; transverse 

 lines as above, but outer one on hind- wing composed of spots. 



Expanse of male %\ inches, female 3^ inches. 



5. Adolias Anosia, Boisduval, MS. (PI. V. fig. 1, $ , J .) 



Adolias Anosia, n. sp. — Male. Upperside dark ash-green, 

 with the anterior margin of hind-wing broadly pinky-brown : fore- 

 wing with broad transverse band of ashy-white irrorations ; black 

 markings within discoidal cell, and some below it bordered with 

 ashy-white irrorations : hind-wing with ashy-white irrorations on 

 lower part of the disc, bordering the discoidal marks, and a spot 



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