THE GENUS ADOLIAS. 



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Another species of this genus, Adolias Sahadeva, is here given. 

 As its name imports, it is a native of India, the specimen which 

 is here figured coming from Xepaul. The colour of the upper 

 surface is deep brown, with a distinct wash of olive, and mottled 

 with black. A number of pale dun spots are so arranged as to 

 form a single interrupted bar crossing both wings, and two short 

 bars on the upper pair, near the upper margin. These are edged 

 with black. The under surface is pale green, covered with black 

 scribblings and dun mottlings. 



Fie;. 351. — Adolias Sahadeva. 

 (Brown, black, awl dun.) 



This is a very large genus, and some of them deserve a brief 

 description. Adolias Anosia is brown, but is curiously blotched 

 with yellowish grey, so that it has a sort of unwholesome look 

 about it, as if covered with lichen. Adolias Phemius is brown, 

 with a pale blue bar at the tip of the lower wings. In Adolias 

 Ramada the male is dark blackish brown, with its lower wings 

 edged with pale blue. The female is very differently coloured, 

 being very pale brown mottled with white. Adolias Durga is 

 deep olive-brown, with a bold white bar across the wings, just 



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