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Pltpa. — " Verv similar to the larva. Attached to a leaf bj the tail and a girdle " 

 (Davidson and Aitken, Jonrn. Bombay X. H. S. 1890, 352). 

 Ty'pk. — A. Kausambi. 



ABISARA KiUSAMBI (Phite 401, figs. 1, la, J, lb, c, ? ). 



Abi.<am Kausambi, Felder, Wion. Entoni. Monafs. iv. p, 3li7 (1860). Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Zoul. 1877, p. 545. Distant, Ehop. Jlalayana, p. 189 ( ? only), pi. 18, fig 11, ? (1883). Moore, 

 Jonrn. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 38. 



TM.iGO. — Male. Upperside rich dark purple-browu. Foi'eirhiij with two parallel 

 transverse discal narrow paler purplish fascige, the inner one sinuoiisly-edged, the 

 outer one even posteriorly, but anteriorly more or less diffused obliquely-inward 

 and there somewhat whitish tinged ; followed by a slender submarginal line which is 

 antei'iorly obsolescent. Hhulwinri with a less apparent pale inner-discal angular 

 fascia : a submarginal fascia bearing a row of two anterior and two subaual black 

 spots edged by a fine white line, followed by a marginal slender pale lunular line. 

 Underside rich dark reddish-purple. Foreirivg with the two discal fa.5cice and sub- 

 marginal line more prominent, paler and of a blui.sh-violet colour, followed by a 

 more slender outer marginal line. ITivJiriiir/ ^rith the discal angulated fascia and 

 mai'ginal line paler and bluish-violet ; with three upper and two lower submarginal 

 prominent black spots distinctly edged with bluish-white, and between the spots in 

 the median interspaces are a pair of pale violet lunules enclosing two conical spots 

 of the ground-colour. 



Female. Upperside paler, but of a more reddish-purple colour. Forewiinj with 

 the discal fascias and two marginal lines more distinctly defined, the oblique anterior 

 portions of the discal fasciae widely coalesced and prominently whitish. Uliuhvin/j 

 with the discal angulated fascia and outer markings more prominent than in male. 

 Underside witli similar markings as in the male, the oblique anterior portion of 

 the fascias on forewing distinctly coalesced, prominent and whitish. 



Expanse, 3 Ij-q, ? 1-ro to 2j\j inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Burma ; Tenasserim; Malay Peninsula; Singapore; Sumatra; 

 Java ; Borneo. 



DiSTRiBDTiON. — We have verified specimens of both sexes which were taken by 

 Dr. J. Anderson in the Mergui Archipelago — at " Pataw Island, December; Sulli- 

 van Island, January; King Island, January and February, and Elphinstone Island 

 in March" (Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool. 18S6, 38). A female, from Rangoon, is in Mr. F. 

 Godman's collection. Mr. Distant records it from the Malay Peninsula and Singa- 

 pore. Specimens from Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo and Java, are in our own 

 collection, and that of the British Museum. 



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