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subterminal series of white diamond-shaped spots. Antennae in 

 both sexes black checkered with white spots ; head and thorax 

 with bluish-grey hairs ; abdomen black with sparse white scaling ; 

 beneath : head, thorax and abdomen white. 



Dry-season brood. c? Upperside : similar to specimens of the 

 wet-season form, but the black colour on costa, apex and termen 

 very much reduced in extent. Underside : the black curved 

 band on fore wing very short, often diffuse and obscure ; apex 

 of fore and entire hind wing light earthy brown, more or 

 less densely irrorated with black scales, that on the hind wing 

 run together in places and form ill-defined zigzag markings. 

 . Upperside : similar to that of the 3 , the black on fore wing of 

 somewhat greater extent ; termen of hind wing obscurely irrorated 

 . with black scales. Underside : similar to that of the J ; the oblique 

 black band on fore wing broader. Antenna in both sexes dark 

 brown ; head with ochraceous-brovvn, thorax with bluish-grey hairs, 

 abdomen blackish ; beneath : head, thorax and abdomen white. 



Exp. c? 2 54-74 mm. (2-1-2-U2"). 



Hob. The Himalayas ; Nepal ; Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Lower Bengal ; 

 Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; extending to the Malay Peninsula, 

 Cochin China and China. 



Race narendra, Moore. A slightly differentiated and more or 

 less local form, notwithstanding that a few specimens which I have 

 seen from Assam, which should properly belong to A. indra, more 

 closely resemble typical narendra from South India and Ceylon. 



Wet-season brood. d" Upperside : differs chiefly from that of rf 

 indra in the hind wing, which is bordered narrowly with black 

 along the termen. Underside : as in indra, but the yellow colour 

 more vivid and the black bisinuate band that crosses the fore wing 

 notably broader. $ . Differs from $ indra on the upperside in the 

 restriction of the black colour, which has also its inner margin 

 more clearly defined. No $ narendra that I have seen is ever so 

 dark above as the extreme rain-season form of 5 indra. Underside : 

 similar to the underside in indra $ , but more closely sprinkled 

 with black scales on the hind wing. 



Dry-season brood. The difference between the seasonal forms is 

 less marked than in A. indra. tf . Upperside : differs in the hind 

 wing which is always margined along the termen, though often 

 very narrowly, with black ; this colour also extends shortly in a 

 few lines along the veins. Underside : as in A. indra, but the shade 

 of brown on apex of fore wing and over the whole of the hind 

 wing is darker, the irroration of black scales more dense, the black 

 bisinuate band that crosses the wing broader. 5 . Upperside : 

 differs from the wet-season form only in the width of the black on 

 the terminal margin of the hind wing, which band is about half 

 as wide as in rainy-season specimens. Underside : similar to the 

 underside in $ of the wet-season form. 



Exp. c? $ 58-70 mm. (2-30-2-76"). 



Hab. Southern India; Ceylon; Assam. 



