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ABI5ARA ABNORMIS. 



Ahisara ahnnrmis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1883, p. 532, pi. 49, fig. 3, ,^ . de Xiceville, Butt. 

 of India, etc., ii. p. 32i (ISSG). 



Wet-season brood (Plate 403, figs. 2, 2a, ^J, 2b, c, ? ). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purplisli-brown or pluiu-C(.)l(Mir. Foreiving with 

 a medial-discal narrow angular, dark inner-bordered, pale hinnlar fa.'scia, the upper 

 portion of which, above the median veiulet, is macular, and more or less distinctly 

 whitish; followed by an outer-discal pale lauular fascia and a sidimarginal slender 

 lunular line; the discocellular streak at end of cell blackish Hindwiug with a 

 much less-defined medial-discal angular fascia ; followed by a submarginal row of 

 pale-edged dark conical spots, the apical and subaual pair being black. Underside 

 paler; the veins outwardly paler lined. Forewiiuj with the medial-discal angular 

 fascia very pi'ominent and entirely violaceous-white, the submarginal and mai-oinal 

 line slender. Hindwing with the medial-discal angular lunular fascia very prominent 

 and entirely violaceous-white ; the submarginal row of white-edged conical spots also 

 prominent, the three upper and two lower black. 



Female. Upperside somewhat paler. Foreicimj with the medial-discal ano-ular 

 fascia somewhat broader and more distinct throughout its length, the two outer as 

 in the male, Bindiving marked as in the male, but more distinctly. Underside 

 paler ; with markings as ia the male. 



Expanse, <S Ij^^,, 9 In) inch. 



Dnj-season hrood (Plate 403, figs. 2J, e, S, 2f, ?). 



Male. Upperside paler than in wet-season brood, the female browner. Forewing 

 with the angular medial-discal and submarginal fascia, and the marginal line, obso- 

 lescently diffused or slightly defined by a paler tint than the ground-colour, the dark 

 angular discal bordering line being prominent in the female. Hindwing with shnilar 

 but somewhat obsolescent markings, as in the wet-season male. Underside. Both 

 wings with markings as in the wet-season form, but less prominent ; the discal 

 angular violet-white fascia being narrower. 



Expanse, 6 ? lo) to \^q inch. 



Habitat. — Lower Burma. 



Distribution. — We possess both sexes of the ^t-v^-season form from Moulmein, 

 Rangoon, Salween Valley, taken in August, and from Thoungyeen Vallev, Upper 

 Tenasserim, and of the drg form from Lower Burma. Col. C. H. E. Adamson has a 

 dr?/-season male from Akyab, taken in October. Col. C. Swinhoe has a n-et male and 

 female from Rangoon, taken in July and October. Mr. H. Grose-Smitli has both 

 forms from Toungoo, 



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