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A female from the Karen Hills has the anal area of hind wing 

 white. 



flab. Sikhim ; Assam; Nagas; Sylhet ; Karen Hills. Exp., 

 <$ ? , 86-92 millim. 



584. Amesia hyala, Druce, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 518 ; Waterh. Aid, ii, 



pi. 172, fig. 3. 



Differs from aliris in the thorax having four white instead of blue 

 dots ; wings uniform brown, with the veins towards outer margin 

 more or less outlined with white. Fore wing with a white dot at 

 base ; eight white dots beyond the cell between the nervules 

 arranged in three series. Hind wing with two blue spots in the cell, 

 one below it ; four dots beyond the cell, the two upper ones white. 

 Underside with the blue and white spots larger ; additional blue 

 spots below the costa and in and below the cell of the fore wing. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Borneo. Exp. 102 millim. 



Genus ERASMIA. 

 Erasmia, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii, p. 446 (1841). 



Type, E. pulchella, Hope. 

 Range. China ; Formosa ; N.E. India. 



Fore wing with veins 4 and 5 stalked and much curved ; 7, 8, 

 and 9 stalked. 



585. Erasmia pulchella, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii, p. 446, 



pi. xxxi, fig. 5 ; C. 8f S. no. 454. 



Antennae, head, and thorax metallic blue-green; abdomen 

 whitish, more or less suffused with green. Fore wing black ; the 

 base suffused with metallic blue-green ; an orange-red irregular 

 oblique antemedial band ; a similar metallic blue-green medial baud ; 



Fig. 181. &rasmia pulchella 



a postmedial maculate baud of irregularly placed white spots, edged 

 with green ; two subapical white spots ; veins of the outer area 

 blue-green. Hind wing pale yellow ; the base and a patch on the 

 costa blue-green ; an apical marginal black band crossed by the 

 blue-green veins. 



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