88 LEPIDOPTERA IXDICA. 



insect at Barrackpur, near Calcutta, from May to October " (Ent. ^\o. Mag. 1882). 

 ]\Ir. L. de Ts^iceville found it " common in Calcutta at all times except in the three 

 coldest months. It has a very quick flight, but settles often on the upper side of a 

 leaf in the shade, with half-expanded wings " (J. As. Soc. Beug. 1885, 45). Mr. de 

 Kiceville also records it (as suffusa) from Barrackpur (Rothney), the Kangra Valley 

 (Hocking), Masuri, Fyzabad, Malda, Calcutta, Bhotaa, Orissa, Karwar, and 

 Rutuagherry, Bombay ; Nilgiris ; and (as /raicTHa) from Karinga ; Bombay " (Butt. 

 Ind. ii. 325). 



Of our illustrations on Plate 402, fig. 1 represents the larva and pupa, la, b, 

 male, and Ic, d, female, icet-season form from Ceylon; fig. le, a dry-season male 

 from Ranchi, Chota Xagpur, If, a dri/seasou male from Pooiia, and Ig, h, a dri/- 

 seasdii female from Ceylon. 



ABISARA BIFASCIATA (Pla)e 403, figs. 1, la, (J, lb, c, ?). 



Abimra bi/asciata, Mooro, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 587, pi. 58, fig. 1, §. Wood-Mason and 

 de XicL-viUe, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1881, pp. 233, 248. de Nicevilie, Butt, of India, etc., ii. 

 p. 323, pi. 21, fig. 118, S (1886). 



Im.\go. — Male. Upperside dark purple-brown. Fore iciiig with, distinctly-defined 

 discal paler almost purplish-grey fascite, which are palest anteriorly. Hindwing with 

 similar pale-bordered large conical spots, the two subapical and two subanal being 

 black and outwardly white-edged. Underside dark purplish-red, paler basally ; the 

 discal fasciae broad and sinuous, prominent, and dull purplish-grey ; the two subapical 

 and two subanal black spots A-ery prominent, large, and sharply white-edged 

 exteriorly. 



Female. Upperside dark purplish-red. Foreiving with the two discal fasciae 

 sinuous, prominent, and broadly white anteriorly, the inner fascia broadest, the 

 lower portions being purplish-white ; submarginal and marginal line also prominent. 

 Hindicing with prominent discal purpurescent-white sinuous fascia, marginal line, 

 borders of the outer conical spots, aud marginal line; the two large subapical (and 

 sometimes also a minute upper one), and the two subanal conical black spots verj- 

 prominent and externally white-edged. Underside dark purplish-red, paler basally ; 

 all the markings on both wings, as on upperside, yery prominently whiter ; tiie 

 black spots on hindwing much more prominent. 



Expanse, cT 1 H) to 2, ? 2 to 2^-o inches. 



HABrfAT. — South Andamans ; ? Nicobars. 



Distribution. — Numerous specimens were collected at Pore Blair, S. Andamans, 

 by the late F. de Roepstorff. A single male, recorded from Kar Xicobar, is in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



