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downwards and lessening in width, it reaches the hinder 

 angle, and has three teeth running in on the first and second 

 median branches and on the submedian vein. Hind wing 

 with large black marginal spots on the veins, more or less 

 confluent, paling to the anal angle in a greyish suffusion, and 

 connected with a discal circular shade by blackish thin bands 

 or lines along the veins ; this shade is formed of pale blackish 

 irrorations, and runs round the cell and below the median 

 vein, and is suffused over all the lower part of the wing 

 excepting the abdominal margin. 



Underside white. Fore wing with the costa grey, discoidal 

 band and connecting band pale ; apical band indicated by 

 pale bands on the veins ; lower basal band also visible. Hind 

 wing with a pale black, short, marginal band at the apex, 

 the discal shade short and distinct, in the form of a trans- 

 verse band ; marginal spots and connecting vein-lines also 

 present. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 2 T 3 to 2 T ^ inches. 

 Bombay and Poona, July to December, common. 

 Allied to A. libythea, Fabr., the type of which (a female) 

 is in the Fabrician cabinet at the British Museum, and has 

 been carefully examined by me. There are three distinct 

 forms or species in this group ; the males of all are somewhat 

 similar to each other, but when put in rows can easily be 

 distinguished ; the females are quite distinct and constant in 

 their characteristics. A. retexta is the dark form, marked 

 much like the female of A. zelmira, Cram., but without any 

 spots in the apical border above and without any yellow 

 coloration below. A. libythea, Fabr., has the apical border 

 narrower, as is also the discoidal band ; there is no connecting 

 band, no suffused band below the cell, and no marks on the 

 hind wing except the large marginal spots, which are dis- 

 connected, and below there are no marks at all except the 

 discoidal and apical bands on fore wing faintly showing 

 through the wing, and a transverse medial shade running 

 across the end of the cell in the hind wing ; the third form, 

 A. ares, Swinhoe (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 138), is the 

 whitest of all, the apical and discoidal bands on the fore wing 

 are very narrow and pale, and the hind wing above and the 

 whole surface of both wings below are unmarked. 

 I have a long series of all three species. 



11. Hv/phina liquida, n. sp. 



$ ? . Upperside white. Fore wing with the costal line 

 black, accompanied by some grey irrorations on the basal 

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