NYMPHALIN^. (Group LliTElilTnYA.) 213 



KIRONGA ABIASA. (Plate 270, fig. 2, 2a, c? ? )• 



Alhyma Abiasa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 16, pi. 50, fig. 7, J', de Niccville, Butt, of India, etc., 



ii. p 174 (1886). 

 Athyvia Clerica, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 540, pi. 69, fig. 5, ? . Moore, .Journ. Linn. 



Soc. Z. 1886, p. 37. 

 Athyma Abiasa, var. Clerica, Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 161, pi. 16, fig 8, ? (1683). 

 Athyma Adunora, Kheil, Ehop. Nias, p. 25, pi. 3, fig. 7, S (1884). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescenfc-black ; markings bluish-white ; cilia 

 slenderly alternated with white. Forewinrj with an ill-defiaed slender short bluish- 

 white streak from lower base of the cell, followed by a less-defined blue-speckled 

 transverse broken bar and then by a large obtusely-triangular prominent white spot 

 before end of the cell, beyond which is a transverse discocellular blue-speckled bar ; 

 below the cell are some very obscure blue-speckled pale patches; a transverse discal 

 interrupted series of white spots, the upper three obliquely subapical ovate spots, 

 with a slight slender costal streak above the upper, the lower being smallest ; two 

 discal oval spots disposed obliquely outward, the upper one small, the next very 

 large; below these are two small inwardly-oblique spots on middle of the posterior 

 margin ; beyond is a submarginal row of slender bluish-white lunules and an 

 obscure pale brown marginal line. Hindwing crossed by a moderately broad bluish- 

 white inner discal band, and an outer discal recurved row of broadly-lunate spots, 

 followed by an obscure pale brown marginal line. Underside dusky olivescent- 

 brown with blackish intervening patches between the veins ; markings as above, 

 deeper bluish-white ; the cell-streaks, basal marks, marginal lines, and a subbasal 

 band on hindwing also bluish-white ; abdominal margin dark bluish-grey. 



Female. Upperside as in the male, but with the markings somewhat narrower. 

 Underside duller brown ; markings as in the male. Body and palpi above olive- 

 black, abdomen with a bluish-white band ; body and palpi beneath and legs olives- 

 cent-white. 



Expanse, c? 2 to 2j^, ? 2^-0 inches. 



Habitat. — Mergui; Malay Peninsula ; Nias ; Sumatra; Java; Sarawak. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — Dr. J. Anderson took " a single male in the Mergui Archipelago 

 during the cold weather" (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 37). Capt. S. Pinwill obtained 

 a female (described as a male, under the name of Clerica, by Mr. Butler) in Malacca. 

 A male from Perak is in Col, Swinhoe's collection. Herr N, M. Kheil has described 

 a male (Ad^lno7•a) from Nias Island. A male from Sumatra is in the collection of Mr, 

 H. Grose-Smith. The type male was taken in Java by Dr, Horsfield. Specimens of 

 both sexes from Sarawak, Borneo, are in our own and the British Museum 

 Collection, 



