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! Ismene tdckeri, n. sp. (Plate XX. fig. 4, «j_.) 



6* . Not distinguishable on the upperside from the male of I. ataphus, Wats., but 

 differs from that species in the following particulars : — Fore wing below having 

 the yellow tinge replaced by greenish. Hind wing, vein 8 evenly curved throughout, 

 vein 6 straight; underside pale greenish brown with pale green streaks very narrowly 

 edged with purple, the latter placed as follows : two in cell 1 b, one in each of cells 

 2 to 8, and one near the middle of the cell. 



Expanse 44 mm. 



Hab. Tavoy {Tucker). 



Described from one example in coll. Elwes, taken in Feb. 1892. 



! ISMENE JAINA. 

 Ismene jaina, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 782; Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 10 (1891). 



Hab. Sikkim (Moller) ; Khasia (Hamilton) ; E. Pegu (Doherty). 



! Ismene fergusonii. 

 Ismene fergusonii, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1892, p. 345, p]. J. fig. 6, j . 



Hab. Nilgiri hills (Hampson) ; N. Canara (coll. SwinJioe). 



Female resembling the male, save that the sex-mark is wanting and the long hairs- 

 clothing the disc of the thorax and the base of the wings are bluish grey. 



! Ismene etelka. 

 Ismene etelka, Hewitson, Exot. Butt, iv., Ismene, figs. 14, 15 (1867). 



This species is easily distinguished in the male from /. fergusonii by the absence 

 of the sexual patch on the fore wing and the "much deeper and more extended 

 orange-red markings below. The female on the upperside is brown with a purple 

 shade, passing into greenish blue towards the base of the wings ; on the fore wing 

 below there is a suffused postmedian macular pale band, and the disc of the wing has 

 a deep purple shade. 



Hab. Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Singapore (coll. Staudinger) ; Lawas, N.Borneo 

 (Everett). 



! Ismene harisa. 



Ismene harisa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 782. 



Choaspes harisa, de Niceville, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1883, p. 84, pi. x. fig. 8, <3 ; Distant, Rhop. 

 Mai. p. 373, pi. xxxiv. fig. 22, 6 (1886); Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 6 (1891). 



Female brown above, with a metallic greenish-blue shade from the base of the wings, 

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