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! ISMEXE MAHINTHA. 



Ismene mahintha, MoorCj P. Z. S. 1874^ p. 575, pi. xlvii. fig. 4, 6 ; Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 11 

 (1891). 



A female of this species is recorded by Wood-Mason and de Niceville (Jour. As. Soc. 

 Beng. 1886, p. 378) as taken at Silcuri, Cachar, on 7th June ; but this sex does not 

 appear to have been separately described and we have never seen it. 



Hab. Bernardmyo, Burmah {Boherty). 



! Ismene ignis. 

 Ismene ionis, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 403, pi. Q. fig. 61, S . 

 Hah. Sambawa [Doherty) ; West Java {Fruhstorfer, fide de Nicdville). 



! Ismene amara. 



Ismene amara, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 783. 

 Choaspes amara, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 8 (1891). 



The female of this species usually closely resembles the male ; but a specimen from 

 the Naga hills has the upperside a little darker than usual, and the veins of the fore 

 wing bordered with dark purple, broadly for some distance from the base, the pui-ple 

 colour gradually narrowing and not reaching the termen. 



Hab. Sikkim (Mdller) ; Khasia (Hamilton) ; Nagas (Boherty). 



! Ismene gomata. 



Ismene gomata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 783, 6 . 



Ismene lorguini, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. x; id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. 266 (Jide 



Semper) . 

 Choaspes gomata, de Niceville, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1883, p. 83, pi. x. fig. 7, ? ; Watson, Hesp. 



Ind. p. 7 (1891). 



Female with the upperside purple-brown with a metallic bluish-green shade, which 

 is strongest towards the base of the wings ; underside as in the male, sa^e that the 

 ground-colour of the fore wing is dark purple-brown and there is in each of cells 2 

 and 8 a suffused oblong pale spot. 



A female specimen kindly sent by Herr G. Semper as the Choaspes lorquini 

 of his W'ork only differs from a female of /. gomata from Java in having the suffused 

 oblong pale spots in cells 2 and 3 of the fore wing below visible also on the upperside. 



Hab. Sikkim (Mdller) ; Java (Piepers) ; Philippines (Semper). 



! Ismene lara. (Plate XX. fig. 14, ? .) 

 Ismene gomata, var. lara, Leech, Butt. China, &c. p. 634, pi. xxxix. fig. 12 (1894). 



With regard to specific validity this insect stands in the same relation to /. gomata, 

 Moore, as I. fergusonii, de Nicev., does to I.jaina, Moore. 



Although the sexes resemble the respective sexes of /. gomata, both may be 



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