82 LKFIDOPTERA INDICA. 



p. 239, pi. 87, c? (1888). Sj/n. Sospita Susa, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. ii. Snsp. pi. i. 

 fig. 2 (1861). Habitat. Malay Peninsula. — Sospita Aita (Abisai'a Aita, de Niceville, 

 Jouni. Bombay N. jj. Soc. 18'J3, p. 49, pi. ]/, fig. 10, S; nf. Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 1895, p. 441. Habitat. Suinati'a. — Sospita Atlas (Abisara Atlas, de Niceville, Journ. 

 Bombay N. H. Soc. 1895, p. 268, pi. N, figs. 10, 11, c? ?. Habitat. Java. 



GENUS ABISARA. 



Abisara, Fulder, Wien. Ent. Monats. iv. p. 397 (1860). Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zoo', ix. p. 413 

 (1867). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 68 (1881). StauJinger and Schiitz, Exot. Schniett. ii. 

 p. 231, pi. 40 (1892). 



Abisara (part), Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 188 (1883). de Nicc'ville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 319 

 (1886). 



Sospita (part), Hewitson, Exot. Butt. ii. p. 91 (18G1). 



Imago. — Male. Foreivii/g triangular ; costal margin arcbed, apex obtusely 

 pointed, exterior margin oblique and even, posterior angle obtuse ; costal vein 

 extending nearly two-thirds the margin ; first and second subcostal branches very 

 short, emitted near together close before end of the cell, third branch at one-tliird 

 beyond the cell, fourth and fifth at two-thirds, the fourth ending at apex ; cell very 

 broad ; discocellulars concave, of equal length ; upper radial from end of cell in a 

 line with subcostal, lower radial from middle of the discocelhilars ; middle median 

 branch emitted at a short distance before lower end of the cell, lower median at half 

 length of the cell ; submedian slightly recurved. Hindwing short, broad ; costal 

 margin very much arched at the base and thence oblique, exterior margin broadly 

 and obtusely angled outward between upper and lower medians — more prolonged 

 and pointed in the female ; abdominal margin long, anal angle rounded ; costal vein 

 very short ; prccostal vein outwardly curved, emitted at some distance above the 

 juncture of subcostal ; cell long, narrow ; subcostal branches emitted beyond end of 

 the cell; discocellulars very long and oblique, of equal length, upper slightly con- 

 cave, lower straight ; middle median branch emitted at a short distance before lower 

 end of the cell, lower branch from opposite to half length of upper discocellular ; 

 submedian vein straight; internal vein recurved. BoJn of moderate size; palpi very 

 small, porrect, not projecting beyond the eyes, slender, compactly pilose, apical joint 

 very short, pointed ; eyes hairy ; antenna) slender, with a well-formed lengthened 

 spatulate club; forelegs of male small, clothed with fine silky hairs; forelegs (f 

 female slender, smoothly scaled, terminal joint with two short claws, small paronychia 

 and pulvillus. 



L.\uvA. — " Flat, very broad in the middle, tapering to both ends ; clothed 

 spar.sely with short hairs." 



