ABARATHA. 99' 



148. ABARATHA RANSONNETII, FELDER* 



Pterygospidea ransonnetii, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch., 1868, p. 284. 

 Pterygospidta potiphera, Hewitson, Exot. Butt., vol. v, Ptevygospidea, 



pi. i, fig. 7 (i873)- 



Abaratha ransonnetii, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i,p. 182, pi. 97, fig. i{i88i). 



Abaratha taylorii, de Niceville,]. A. S. B., vol. Hi, pt. 2, p. 88, pi. x, fig. 

 13, malt (1883). 



" Upperside fuliginous ochreous-brown. Male ; forewing with three 

 small semi-transparent white spots before the apex (and sometimes one or 

 two very minute spots obliquely below them), two spots within end of the 

 cell, a slender spot between the upper and middle median veins, a 

 larger spot between the latter vein and submedian, and followed below 

 it by two small obliquely disposed spots ; a marginal double row of 

 pale indistinct small lunules ; hindwing with a broad medial discal 

 macular pale ochreous band traversed by brown veins and a spot within 

 end of the cell, the outer discal area suffused with grey-brown. Cilia 

 alternated with white. Female ; forewing with the spots and marginal 

 lunules, and the macular band on hindwing more prominent, the latter also 

 more distinctly bordered with grey. Underside : forewing paler brown ; the 

 basal area greyish -white, the spots with clouded black outer borders ; 

 hindwing greyish-white, the outer margin only being brown, traversed by a 

 curved discal series of small blackish spots. 



Expanse : </ if ; 9 i| inches." (Moore, I. c.) 



Occurs Ceylon (Hutchison, Wade, Mackwood) ; Orissa, (Taylor) ; Nilgiris, 

 (Hampson) . 



The dry-season form which has been named A. taylorii by de Niceville 

 differs in being ochreous not dark brown above, and in having the disc of 

 the hindwing unmarked with a group of ochreous spots and streaks. 



A similar variation has been noted by Mr. de Niceville in C. tissa, a not 

 very distantly allied species, and in both cases it is the dry-season form 

 which is the paler. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



149. ABARATHA SARAYA, DOHERTY. 



Abaratha saraya, Doherty, J. A. S. B., 1886, p. 138. 



" Agrees with Mr. Moore's description of the genus Abaratha except 

 that the apex of the forewing is not acute but right-angled, that of the 

 hindwing decidedly rounded. The outer margin of the hindwing is also 

 more scalloped, and less irregularly angulate. Above fuscous, with the 

 following tawny-ochreous marks : a line of streaks just within the margin ; 

 a line of square spots from the costa to the upper median branch, continued 

 to the hind-margin by a series of large and more irregular blurs, removed 

 further from the outer margin ; a dull area just beyond the cell, from costa 

 to the middle median ; three large irregular spots occupying the middle of 

 the cell, and the two spaces below between the submedian and the middle 



