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Forewing with the costal and basal areas entirely rich, dark brown, a 

 very broad even brown band occupying the end of the discoidal 

 cell and extending a considerable distance beyond it, commencing 

 in the dark costal area and ending abruptly on the first median 

 nervule, this disco-cellular band is separated from the basal area 

 by a very narrow streak of the ground-colour ; a very broad (as 

 broad as the disco-cellular band) discal band, commencing on the 

 costa, endiug on the first median nervule, below which in the sub- 

 median interspace is a diffused dark spot ; a narrow submarginal 

 band ; an anteciliaiy dark line. Hindwing with a broad rich dark 

 brown basal area sharply defined against the creamy-white ground- 

 colour j a double line defining the disco -cellular nervules, with two 

 round spots in continuation one each in the median interspaces ; 

 beyond these is another broad dark brown area, which reaches 

 almost to the outer margin, and bears inwardly traces of the usual 

 discal maculated band;, a lunular deep black spot on the margin in 

 the first median interspace crowned with metallic green scales ; 

 some similar scales in the interspace behind ; the anal lobe small, 

 bearing a round deep black spot also crowned with metallic green 

 scales; an anteciliary black line. 



This very beautiful and distinct species clearly belongs to the 

 group of which A. apidaniis, Cramer, which occurs in Burma, the 

 Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, .Java, Borneo, Billitan, and Sambawa, is 

 the type, and to which the " Flos " artegal, Doherty, from Burma 

 and Perak, and "Flos" ahamus, Doherty, from Margherita in 

 Upper Assam, are allies. The latter species may indeed be synony- 

 mous with A. apidanus. A. area is however quite distinct from any 

 of these, having the discal band of the forewing on the underside 

 at least twice as wide, and the dark basal area of both wings 

 strongly contrasted with the creamy-white ground-colour beyond ; 

 in A. apidanus the ground-colour is much darker. The strongly 

 contrasted colours of the underside is a marked feature in the 

 hindwing of '' Panchala " morphina, Distant, from Perak in the 

 the Malay Peninsula, an otherwise abundantly distinct tailless 

 species. A. area differs also from A. apidanus and allies in having 

 the blue coloration of the upperside far more restricted, and in the 

 prominently white cilia. 



