334 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892 



Description : Female. Uppeesidb, hoth tvings bluish -purple. 

 Forewing witli tlie costa broadly reaching to the subcostal nervure, 

 a prominent tooth-shaped mark at the end of the discoidal cell, and 

 the outer margin (widest at the apex) broadly fuscous. Hindwing 

 with more than half the surface dull brownish-fuscoas, the purple 

 coloration hardly extending beyond the discoidal cell. Underside, 

 both wings gvey, the markings dark brown, outwardly defined with 

 whitish of a lighter shade than the grey ground-colour. Forewing 

 with a small oval- spot towards the base of the cell, a larger one at 

 its middle, a still larger increasing one at its end which is continued 

 widely to the first median nervule, filling the bases of the median 

 interspaces ; a large dark brown patch occupying the basal half 

 of the interno-median interspace, its outer edge sharply defined 

 and inclined inwardly obliquely; a broad even almost straight 

 discal unbroken macular fascia, commencing on the costa, ending 

 on thB first me.dian nerville ,• a very indistinct pale brown spot 

 inwardly below it in the interno-median interspace ; a broad well- 

 marked increasing submarginal fascia. Hindwing with all tlie 

 macular markings paler than in the forewing, but standing out 

 particularly clearly on the gray ground, small, arranged as usual ; 

 a well-marked lunulated submarginal fascia, broad anterior to, 

 narrow posterior to, the second median nervule ; no anal lobe, 

 metallic anal sprinklings, or tail, but the apices of all the veins 

 slightly extended beyond the general outliue of the outer margin of 

 the wing, the apex of the first median nervule slightly more 

 produced tooth-like than the rest. 



On the upperside, omitting the lack of tail, this species very 

 closely resembles the same sex of A. rama, KoUar ; on the underside 

 it is most like A. dodonc&a, Moore, but is whiter and with no 

 silky gloss whatever, the markings more prominent, especially 

 on the hindwing. To judge from the description and figure 

 alone it is nearest to A. aso]jia, Hewitson, from Maulmain, 

 which, as described, has the ground-colour of the underside 

 " rufous," but is perhaps better defined as " of a very unusual 

 tint of reddish- ochreous," all the markings less distinct than in 

 A. ceeta. 



Described from a single example captured in June in the 



