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Genus ABROTA. 



Ahrota, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 176 (1857). de Xiceyille, Butt, of India, 

 ii. p. 182 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing subtriangular ; costa mucli arched, apex slightly 

 rounded, exterior margin almost straight and slightly uneven ; posterior margin 

 slightly recurved ; first subcostal brancli free in both sexes, emitted at fully one- 

 third before end of the cell, second at one-sixth before the end; upper discocellular 

 very short, middle acutely bent in its middle, lower long and obliquely concave, 

 radials from angle close to subcostal and end of middle discocellular ; cell closed ; 

 middle median veinlet emitted at a short distance before end of tlie cell. Hindwing 

 triangular; anterior margin well arched from the base, exterior margin oblique, 

 convex, and evenly scalloped ; precostal spur long, excurved ; cell open. Bodg 

 robust ; palpi obliquely porrect, apical joint short ; antennge with an elongated slender 

 club. Eyes naked. Sexes dissimilar. 



Type. — A. Ganga. 



Habits. — " In the habit of resting with wide outspread wings on leaves in dense 

 forest, these butterflies closely resemble many species of Euthalla " (de Niceville, 

 I.e. 183). 



ABROTA GANGA (Plate 219, figs. 1, la, S 9)- 



Ahrota Ganga, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 178, pi. 6, a, fig. 1, ^J only (1857). 



Adolias eonfinis, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monats. 1859, p. 183, pi. 4, fig. 3, $ . 



(?) Papilio Mirus, Fabr. Ent. Syst, iii. 1, p. 48. 



Adolias Mirus, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 61 (1869). de Nice'ville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 183, 



pi. 24, fig. no ( ? only). 

 Ahrota Jumna, Mooie, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 764 ( ? only). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich ochreous. Cilia blackish, alternated with white. 

 Forewing with black costal edge, the veins, a small middle spot and contiguous 

 clustered speckles on upperside of cell, a recurved discocellular streak, a transverse 

 d.ifl'used angulated lunulate discal band extending obliquely outward from the costal 

 vein to the upper median and then bent inward to below the submedian vein, 

 followed by a submarginal narrow lunular band and then by a marginal band ; the 

 discal and submarginal bands being confluent at their angles on the upper and 

 middle median veinlet, the interspaces between the middle median and posterior margin 

 being more or less marked with a central black-speckled lunular spot, and the 

 broader costal interspaces by an outwardly-oblique broad black-speckled patch ; the 

 interspace between the discal band and the median vein also black-speckled, and the 



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