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Fig. 39. Anaph&i* 



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Wet-season form. tf . Upperside: white. Fore wiag : costa to 

 base of vein 11 dusky black, thence con- 

 tinued in a jet-black, gradually widened, 

 curved, short streak along the discocelltilars to 

 the lower apex of cell ; apical area diagonally 

 with the tennen black, the former with six 

 elongate outwardly pointed spots of the 

 ground-colour enclosed one in each of the 

 interspaces 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. Hind wing : 

 uniform, the black along the venation on the 

 underside seen through by transparency ; 

 termen between veins 2 and 6 somewhat 

 broadly black, with a series of four round 

 spots of the ground-colour in the interspaces ; 

 below vein 2 and above vein 6 the termen is 

 very narrowly black. Underside : fore wing 

 white, markings similar, more clearly defined, 

 the white spots within the black apical afea 

 larger. Hind wing : yellowish white, all the 

 reins very broadly bordered with black ; 

 interspaces 1, 2, 6 and 7 with cross-bars of black, beyond which 

 there is a subterminal, somewhat broad, transverse band of black 

 between veins 2 and 6. Cilia of both fore and hind wings white 

 alternated with black. The ground-colour on both upper and 

 under sides variable, often cream-coloured above ; beneath : in some 

 specimens, the base of cell and the elongate spots in apical area of 

 fore wing, and the whole surface of the hind wing varies to rich 

 chrome-yellow. 5 Similar ; the black markings on both upper 

 and under sides broader, the white spots on black apical area of fore 

 wing often subobsolete above. Antennae in both sexes black, 

 sparsely sprinkled with white dots ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 above and below white : thorax above often bluish grey. 



Dry-season form. tf $ . Similar to 3 $ of wet-season form 

 but on the upperside the black markings are narrower, the white 

 markings on the black apical area of fore wing broader and longer, 

 and on the hind wing the narrow inner margining to the black ou 

 the termen very narrow, somewhat obsolescent; therefore, the 

 white subterminal spots have the appearance of opening inwards. 

 Underside : ground-colour almost pure white ; on the hind wing 

 slightly tinged with yellow. Antenna?, head, thorax and abdomen 

 as in the wet-season form. 



&rp- <S $ 44-62 mm. (1-72-2-45"). 



Hah. Within our limits, the Himalayas from Kashmir to Sikhim 

 at elevations below 6000 feet, and through the plains to Southern 

 India. In the Nilgiris observed up to 8000 feet (Hampton). It 

 does not seem to occur in Assam or Burma, but I possess a 

 specimen of the dry-season form taken by Mr. G. Kogers, Deputy 

 Conservator of Forests, in April 1903," in the Ganges harbour, 

 Great Xicobar Island. To the west it spreads through Persia and 

 Arabia to East Africa. 



