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! Ism exe mahintha. 



Ismene mahintha, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 575, pi. xlvii. fig. 4, 6 ; Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 11 

 (1891). 



A female of this species is recorded by Wood-Mason and de Niceville (Jour. As. Soc 

 Beng. 1886, p. 378) as taken at Silcuri, Cachar, on 7th June ; but this sex does not 

 appear to have been separately described and we have never seen it. 



Hab. Bernardmyo, Burmah (Doherty). 



! Ismene ionis. 

 Ismene ionis, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 403, pi. Q. fig. 61, 6 . 

 Hab. Sambawa [Doherty) ; West Java (Fruhstorfer, fide de Niceville). 



! Ismene amara. 



Ismene amara, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 783. 

 Choaspes amara, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 8 (1891). 



The female of this species usually closely resembles the male ; but a specimen from 

 the Naga hills has the upperside a little darker than usual, and the veins of the fore 

 wing bordered with dark purple, broadly for some distance from the base, the purple 

 colour gradually narrowing and not reaching the termen. 



Hab. Sikkim (Moller) ; Khasia {Hamilton) ; Nagas (Doherty). 



! Ismene gomata. 



Ismene gomata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 783, <S . 



Ismene lorquini, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Eut. Fr. 1876, p. x ; id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. 266 (fide 



Semper). 

 Choaspes gomata, de Niceville, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1883, p. 83, pi. x. fig. 7, ? ; Watson, Hesp. 



Ind. p. 7 (1891). 



Female with the upperside purple-brown with a metallic bluish-green shade, which 

 is strongest towards the base of the wings ; underside as in the male, save that the 

 ground-colour of the fore wing is dark purple-brown and there is in each of cells 2 

 and 3 a suffused oblong pale spot. 



A female specimen kindly sent by Herr G. Semper as the Choaspes lorquini 

 of his work only differs from a female of I. gomata from Java in having the suffused 

 oblong pale spots in cells 2 and 3 of the fore wing below visible also on the upperside. 



Hab. Sikkim (Moller) ; Java (Piepers) ; Philippines (Semper). 



! Ismene lara. (Plate XX. fig. 14, $ .) 

 Ismene gomata, var. lara, Leech, Butt. China, &c. p. 634, pi. xxxix. fig. 12 (1894). 



With regard to specific validity this insect stands in the same relation to /. gomata, 

 Moore, as I. fergusonii, de Nicev., does to I.jaina, Moore. 



Although the sexes resemble the respective sexes of I. gomata, both may be 



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