18/8.] INSECTS FROM UPPER TENASSER1M. 831 



Adolias parvata, n. sp. (Plate LII. fig. 3.) 



Female allied to A. sedeva, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1859, p. 68, 

 pi. 4. f. 3. Differs above on the fore wing in the discal band being 

 narrower, the costal portion only partially whitish, and the lower 

 portion without the whitish inner border. Underside with the band 

 on fore wing only partially white anteriorly, the lower portion with 

 a slight white lunule to the inner border, and white point with black 

 tip to outer border. 



Expanse 2f inches. 



Hab. Meetan, 3000 feet, April. In coll. J. Wood- Mason. 



Adolias discispilota, n. sp. (Plate LII. fig. 2.) 



Allied to A. kesava, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1859, p. 67, pi. 3. ft 5. 



Female. Smaller in size : upperside with the borders uniformly 

 greyish brown ; the transverse discal band with less sinuous dusky 

 outer border ; the whitish spot between the lower subcostal branches 

 and the spot between the upper median branches prominent. 

 Underside paler ; markings similar, with less blue along abdominal 

 border. 



Expanse 2-^ inches. 



Moolai, 3000-6000 feet. In coll. J. Wood-Mason. 



Adolias jahnu. 



Adolias jahnu, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. i. p. 192 (1857) ; 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 1859, p. 74, pi. 7. f. 1. 

 Hatsiega ; Taoo, 3000-5000 feet. 



Adolias taooana, u. sp. 



Allied to A. iva (Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1857, pi. 8 f. 2). Fore 

 wing with the oblique discal maculated band with shorter lower por- 

 tions, the penultimate spot quite oval, the last being short and 

 conical ; the two contiguous spots beneath are also smaller, and the 

 two before the apex closer together ; on the hind wing the three sub- 

 apical spots are contiguous, the two upper being large, quadrate, and 

 excavated externally. 



Expanse 4 inches. 



Taoo, 3000-5000 feet. In coll. J . Wood-Mason. 



Charaxes samatha, n. sp. 



Smaller than Indian examples of C. athamas, the yellow band on 

 both wings one third less in width, the subapical spot smaller, and the 

 apical either minute or obsolete. 



Expanse 2§ inches. 



Moolai, 3000-6000 feet. In coll. J. Wood- Mason. 



Charaxes marmax. 



Charaxes marmax, Westwood, Cab. Orient. Ent. p. 43, pi. 21. 

 f. 3-5 (1848). 



Moolai, 3000-6000 feet. 



