120 COLADENIA, 



170, COLADENIA DAN, FABR/CIUS. 



Papilio dan, Fabricius, Mant. Ins., vol. ii, p. 88, n. 798 (1787). 



Coladenia dan, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 398, pi. xxxv, fig. 27 

 (1886). 



Plesioneura dan, var. andamanica, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, 

 J. A. S. B., vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 257, n. 118 (1881) ; J. A. S. B., vol. Iv, pt. 2, 

 p. 391, n. 246 (1887). 



" Wings above rufous-brown ; anterior wings with four discal greyish- 

 white spots, one largest and sublunate in cell, a small spot above it, and 

 two beneath cell divided by the second median nervule, and three some- 

 times two small subapical greyish-white spots in suberect series, outer 

 half of wing with obscure dark fasciae ; posterior wings with discal and 

 outer marginal dark fasciae. Wings beneath as above, but slightly paler. 

 Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Expanse : 30 millim." (Distant, I.e.) I -iff 



Recorded from Kumaon (Dokerty) ; Sikkim (de Niceville, Elwes) ; 

 Cachar ( Wood-Mason andde Niceville) ; Kangra, N.-W. Himalayas (Moore); 

 Nilgiris (Hampson). 



I have obtained this species commonly in Rangoon ; Beeling, Upper 

 Tenasserim ; the Nilgiris ; and the Kadur District, Mysore. Mr. de 

 Niceville considers that C.fatih is distinct from this species though the 

 general opinion seems to be they are identical. I am unable to say by 

 what characteristic they are to be separated, though C.fatih seems to be 

 constantly larger. 



The following is the description of the local race andamanica : 



" Specimens from Port Blair differ from continental ones in having the 

 discal series of spots all run together so as to form an unbroken band, and 

 the three subapical spots conjugated and in the same straight line, with 

 their conjoined inner margin nearly straight and their outer festooned ; and 

 two examples exhibit in addition two smaller dots placed nearly parallel to 

 the outer margin just below and external to the three subapical ones." 

 (Wood-Mason and de Niceville I.e. in J. A. S. B., vol. I.) 



Habitat : Andamans, Cachar. 



In recording this variety from Cachar, Messrs. Wood-Mason and 

 de Niceville note that specimens from that locality differ from Andaman 

 specimens in the discal golden band of the upperside of the forewing 

 being slightly broader, and the yellow spots on the underside of the hindwing 

 obsolete ; and that it agrees with P. dhanada, Moore, in the golden band not 

 nearly reaching the anal angle of the forewing on the upperside (thereby 

 differing from P. aurivittata, Moore), departing from it in having the cilia 

 cinereous throughout (J. A. S. B., vol. h). 



In collection Indian Museum, 



