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with the sixth, the ninth in la nearer base. A spot in 8 near 

 precostal, a subbasal in 7, two in cell and one on middle 

 discocellular, a subbasal in Ic, lb, and la, that in lb nearer 

 margin than the other two. Some irregular black at base of 

 nervures. 



Head black with brown hairs, and tufts on collar, thorax and 

 base of abdomen black, the latter with small pinkish lateral 

 spots, remainder pinkish ochreous. Claws unequal. 



9 resembles the (J iu size and markings but the ground- 

 colour varies from dull pink to dull smoky ochreous. The 

 underside of f.-w. almost devoid of scales. The abdomen 

 black above with white lateral spots, and sometimes the last 

 three or four segments entirely white above. 



A. dovhledayi 9 f- Candida, f. nov. 



Eepresented by an example in the Staudinger collection from 

 Nyam Nyam. The ground-colour is white, the form bearing 

 the same kind of relation to the type as does A. encedon f. lycia 

 to A. encedon encedon. 



A. doubledayi sykesi, subsp. 



Differs from typical dovMedayi in having the f.-w. of a 

 yellower colour. The apical and marginal black is confined to 

 the ends of the nervules and a thin marginal line, and the 

 translucent patch is almost or entirely absent. The ground- 

 colour of the h.-w. margin on the underside is white. 



The 9 is a more tawny brown and the f.-w. spots somewhat 

 larger. 



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The type of mystica, Neave, has rather redder h.-w, 

 than the other examples I have seen. It is a somewhat 

 worn example, and its identity with the sykesi form is only 

 evident on careful comparison with a series of the latter. 



A. doubledayi arahica, subsp. PI. II, f. 2 ((^). 



Differs from the typical form in having the wings much more 

 heavily scaled, but with hardly any basal suffusion. The trans- 

 lucent patch is often thickly scaled with dusky white (white 

 in 5 )• The ground-colovir is i;sually a deeper brick red. In 

 some examples there is a small black streak in f.-w, cell just 

 before the large spot, and sometimes one in lb just before the 

 subbasal spot. The spots tend to be larger and the terminal 

 half of the abdomen is white with some yellow scales at the 

 tip. The underside is more richly coloured than in the 

 typical form and in some examples the basal costal spots are 



