CELJUNORRHIN^. 77 



ABARATHA SARATA. 

 Plate 776, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, ? . 



Ahnratlia saraya, Doheity, Juurn. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 138. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 99 (1891). 



Cajtrona saraya, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 62 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189"), 

 p. 422. Elwes antl Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 151, pi. 18, fig. 20, ^ , pi. 23, figs. 21, 

 21a (genitalia). Hannyngton, Jonrn. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 1910, p. 371. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside greyish-ochreous. Foreiving with a short brown 

 sub-apical band enclosing the five sub-apical white spots, which are in an outward 

 curve, the upper three conjoined and larger than usual, a brown spot in the cell near 

 the base with a white dot in it, a larger brown patch near the end of the cell with a. 

 large white spot in it, like two spots joined together, tlie upper one half the size of the 

 lower ; a brown, discal macular band from vein 3 hindwards, its inner side enclosiuo- 

 a small round white spot near the base of the second median inter.space, a large 

 similar spot in the middle of the first median interspace, with two small round spots 

 below it, inwardly oblique, a small spot between the cell end spot and the costa, an 

 ante-medial, macular brown band, from the sub-costal vein hindwards ; the base of the 

 wing brown, the basal half of the costa narrowly brown, a su]>marginal Ijrown macular 

 l^aud. Hindwing with the base brown, limited by a brown macular Ijand, a discal and 

 a sub-marginal brown l)and ; l)oth wings with outer marginal brown line and white 

 cilia with brown patches at the vein ends. Underside paler than the upperside, 

 markings similar. 



Female. Upperside darker than the male, all the brown l)ands more continuous 

 and closer together. So well described by Doherty, we give his description in. 

 extenso : — 



" Agrees with Mr. Moore's description of the genus Aharatha except that the apex 

 of the forewing is not acute but right-angled, that of the hindwing decidedly rounded. 

 The outer margin of the hindwing is also more scalloped, and less irregularly aiK'ulate. 

 Above, fuscous with the following tawny-ochreous marks : a line of streaks just within 

 the margin ; a line of square spots from the costa to the upper median branch, 

 continued to the hind margin by a series of larger and more irregular Ijlurs, removed 

 further from the outer margin ; a dull area just beyond the cell, from costa to the 

 middle median ; three large irregular spots occupying the middle of the cell, and the 

 two spaces below between the sub-median and the middle median. Also the followin'T 

 translucent spots ; five apical ones, the upper three elongate and approximate ; one at 

 the end of the cell, almost bifid, with a dot on the costa above it ; four on the disc 

 from the sub-median to the upper median, the second from above largest of all and 

 adjoining that at the end of the cell ; also one in the cell near the base. All these 

 are surrounded by blackish rings above and below. A blackish mar^niial line. Cilia 



