of the Genus Adolias. 85 



which proceeds, between the veins, a narrow purple or green 

 streak to the exterior margin. Underside deep oh've-green, and 

 spotted with white about the middle of the wings ; posterior half 

 of fore-wing blue-black. Female. Upperside brown-black, 

 covered with bluish-white spots, disposed in linear series ; the 

 fore-ning with a marginal and the hind-wing with marginal and 

 sub-marginal row of bluish or purple-white lunular marks, those 

 on the hind-wing joined and forming circles. Underside dark 

 olive-green, somewhat greyish on the iiind-wings, marked as in 

 upperside, but the spots larger. In some specimens the upperside 

 of the male has the marginal band of the fore-wing dark olive- 

 green, with the small spots and whole underside deep ochreous ; 

 and in some females the upperside is brown, with all the spots 

 pale ochreous. 



Expanse of male 3^ to A\, female 3^ to nearly 5 inches, 



49. Adolias Siva, Wcstwood. 



$ Aconthea Doubledayi, Westwood, Cab. Oriental Ent. p. 76, 

 t. S7, f. 4 (1847). 



Adolias Siva, Westwood, in Doubleday and Hewitson's Di- 

 urnal Lep. p. 291, n. 18 (1850). 



Hab. Silhet. 



In Collection British Museum, East India Company, W. W. 

 Saunders, Esq. 



Adolias Siva. — Male. Upperside : fore-wing ochreous-yellow, 

 with spots on the basal half, and irregular lines across the disc 

 and along exterior margin, and the apical portion of the wing, 

 broadly black : hind-wing from the base to disc ochreous-yellow, 

 barred with black ; within, and spot below discoidal-cell, white ; 

 rest of the wing black, with two rows of whitish spots ; abdo- 

 minal margin whitish ; body spotted with pale ochreous. Under- 

 side nearly as in upperside ; markings and colours paler. 



Expanse 3 inches. 



50. Adolias Hesperus, Fabricius. 



Papilio Hesperus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1, p. 47 (1793) ; 



Jones, Icon. iv. t. 73, f. 1. 

 Nymphalis Hesperus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 387. 

 Adolias Hesperus, Westwood, in Doubleday and Hewitson's 



Diurnal Lep. p. 291, n. 22. 

 Hab. unknown. 

 Adolias Hesperus. — " Alis repandis, fuscis, nigro-undatis : anticis 



punctis quatuor albis." Fabr. 



